- Bile Fascination: The only reason most people watch the movie is to see just how bad it is, whether it be by extension towards the games or on its own.
- Ethnic Scrappy: It’s rather unfortunate that the only black elf is a rapper/wrapper who sports an exaggerated voice and responds to magic rebuilding the elf factory with “We could use that in Detroit!”
- Memetic Mutation:
- "WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL
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- "WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The idea that Santa was a former pirate is a very different take on the character, but it is largely unexplored after the prologue aside from him randomly sticking pirate language into his speech.
- Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
- While the animation itself is to be expected from a mid-2000s low-budget direct-to-video movie in while not completely horrible, is pretty cheap. The designs don't have that excuse, with the attempts to go for a more realistic approach to the characters coming off as creepy; not helped by what is clearly Motion Capture for many of the movements or the textures that seemingly blends ceramic, clay and wood all at once.
- For a more specific example; there's The Surfer Dude Moai, who have disproportionally tiny bodies to their heads and stretched, ungainly looking texturing applied to their models.
- Video Game Movies Suck: Had a movie, and it sucked. Not that the games it was based on were ever that good to begin with, though. It is worth noting that aside from the common issues with Direct to Video animated films, it wasn't even that faithful an adaptation anyways, meaning even whatever fans the games might have had left by the time of its release weren't pleased with the adaptation.
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