History YMMV / ElfBowling

** For a given definition of the word "adaptation," more people know about the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS re-releases of the first two games than the PC originals.

** To an even greater extent, more people known about the movie than the games, mainly due to being a frequent source of mockery for online movie reviewers.

!!The game provides examples of:

** To an even greater extent, more people known about [[VideoGameMoviesSuck the movie]] than the games, mainly due to WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic.

!!The movie provides examples of:

* BileFascination: The only reason most people watch the movie is to see just how bad it is, whether it be by extension towards the games [[AdaptationDisplacement or on its own]].
* MemeticMutation: "[[https://youtu.be/CQONXZpsE90 WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL]]?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A line near the start of the film where Santa berates one of his pirates for doing the titular act. People consider it to be the funniest line in the movie.[[/labelnote]]
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 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 DirectToVideo animated films, [[InNameOnly 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.

* TheScrappy: Pretty much most of the characters in this film aren't popular in this film but special mention goes to Santa, whose lethal stupidity makes him come off as very incompetent.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Downplayed with this film's take on Santa; for as nonsensical as his backstory as a {{pirate}} is, it's definitely one of the [[RetiredOutlaw more unique interpretations]] of this character, and could have provided a satisfying [[HeelFaceTurn character arc]] not normally seen in films based on SantaClaus. Unfortunately, the film doesn't do anything with these developments as these developments are lost in the overall RandomEventsPlot.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 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 DirectToVideo animated films, [[InNameOnly 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.
* WTHCastingAgency: How the filmmakers got ''Creator/TomKenny'' for the role of Dingle in this mess, the world may never know. The most reasonable guess is that [[MoneyDearBoy he]] ''[[MoneyDearBoy really]]'' [[MoneyDearBoy needed the money that day]].

* UncannyValley: The character designs for the elves look rather stilted, and that cast as a whole is ''at best'' hard to look at.

* WTHCastingAgency: How the filmmakers got ''Creator/TomKenny'' for the role of Dingle in this mess, the world may never know.

* CriticalResearchFailure: There are [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai moai statues]] in Fiji. Moai are from Easter Island, not Fiji.

* MemeticMutation: "WHO POOPED IN THE PEANUT BARREL?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A line near the start of the film where Santa berates one of his pirates for doing the titular act. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.[[/labelnote]]

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 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 DirectToVideo animated films, [[InNameOnly 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.

** To an even greater extent, more people known about [[VideoGameMoviesSuck the movie]] than the games, mainly due to WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter.

* BileFascination:
** Most of the people who have played ''1 & 2'' probably have only played it for this reason.
** The movie also gets this, whether it be by extension of that towards the games [[AdaptationDisplacement or on its own]].

* AngstWhatAngst: The Super Elf Bowling game during the final act of the movie was already laughable but when Dingle rigs Santa's bowling ball with a bomb so he would lose the game, he quickly gets found out with [[AssPull a hidden television that happens to be recording the evidence]].

* ObscurePopularity: The original game was played over 7 millions times, making it a hit (especially by 1990s freeware standards), but it doesn't get talked about much aside from the film.

* PortingDisaster: Even putting aside the fact that one could get the original versions ''for free'', the GBA and DS versions suffered from having less animations and sounds than the originals, which is inexcusable when you consider that the games were pretty minimalist in the first place.

* PortingDisaster: Even putting aside the fact that one could get the original versions ''for free'', the DS version suffered from having less animations and sounds than the originals, which is inexcusable when you consider that the games were pretty minimalist in the first place. It was an unauthorized port of the game as well.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Downplayed with this film's take on Santa; for as nonsensical as his backstory as a {{pirate}} is, it's definitely one of the [[RetriedOutlaw more unique interpretations]] of this character, and could have provided a satisfying [[HeelFaceTurn character arc]] not normally seen in films based on SantaClaus. Unfortunately, the film doesn't do anything with these developments as these developments are lost in the overall RandomEventsPlot.

* UncannyValley: The film's characters are ''at best'' hard to look at.
* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 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 DirectToVideo animated films, [[InNameOnly 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.

* UncannyValley: The character designs for the elves look rather stilted.

* DesignatedVillain: Dingle may be selfish, evil and manipulative but he actually does get the elves back on schedule so that all the Christmas presents can be ready to be delivered. Though of course, his method in doing so (hypnotism) was pretty villainous.

* PortingDisaster: Even putting aside the fact that one could get the original versions ''for free'', the DS version suffered from having less animations and sounds than the originals, which is inexcusable when you consider that the games were pretty minimalist in the first place.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 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 DirectToVideo animated films, [[InNameOnly 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.

** It is worth noting that aside from the common issues with DirectToVideo animated films, [[InNameOnly 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.

* AdaptationDisplacement: For a given definition of the word "adaptation," more people know about the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance and UsefulNotes/NintendoDS re-releases of the first two games than the PC originals.

* BileFascination: Most of the people who have played ''1 & 2'' probably have only played it for this reason.

** The movie also gets this, whether it be by extention of that towards the games [[AdaptationDisplacement or on its own]].
* MostAnnoyingSound: '''All the sound effects in ''1 & 2'' qualify'''.

* UncannyValley: The film's charactes are ''at best'' hard to look at.