You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? It is a bad movie episode.
I am Mike, your host. I am joined by no one.
That's okay. But we have a bad movie just in
time for the holidays for you. This is actually
only the third bad Christmas movie that we've
actually done on this podcast. But of course,
first we have to jump into the important stuff
like what are we drinking? Today from Legion
Brewing, I've got their gold medal winner. It
is called Hop Chiller and it is a cold IPA. Of
course, you don't want to drink these warm. So
I'm going to have my first sip now while it is
ice cold. That's actually pretty solid. I do
like that a lot. So that is Hop Chiller from
Legion Brewing. One of my favorites here in North
Carolina since we moved here. I recommend it
for you. I hope you are all having a wonderful
holiday season. Obviously, this is a bad Christmas
movie that is coming up that we're going to talk
about in a little bit. But as I'm recording this,
it is the seventh night of Hanukkah, and when
I release it, it will be the eighth night of
Hanukkah. I hope you are having a wonderful Hanukkah
if you celebrate. And if you celebrate Christmas,
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas as well.
Let's get talking about this bad movie. So the
bad movie I've got for you this time is a little
bit of a weird one. This is one that came out
in 2012, December 4th, 2012. It's called Elfman.
And basically there's one actor that you're going
to know, but you're not going to know their name
if I read their actual name, which is Jason Acuna.
That is Wee Man from Jackass fame, if you've
heard of that at least. And he plays the titular
Elfman. I'm going to give you the IMDb. Before
I give you a breakdown of what happens in this
movie, an elf is left behind by Santa to help
rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas.
The elf and the family get more than they bargained
for as the kids help the elf discover his special
powers and true identity as a budding superhero.
That's a real paint -by -numbers analysis of
this movie. And I love that it says lousy Christmas,
and that's just what you think it's going to
be, is a lousy Christmas. Trust me, we go way
further than just lousy Christmas. Also in this
movie are Morelli Taylor, Jeffrey Combs, and
Mackenzie Astin. And yes, if you've heard that
name before, Mackenzie Astin is the half -sibling
of Sean Astin. You may remember him from a certain...
movies about a hobbit or you know rudy those
kind of movies and even stranger things or 50
first dates that guy mackenzie astin plays the
dad eric jeffrey combs plays the leader of the
kidnappers yes there's kidnappers uh his name
is mickey amy is the name of morelli taylor's
character she's a love interest and then of course
we've got casey ryan and grandma None of which
you'd recognize, but those are the main characters
in this thing. We've also got two other kidnappers,
Jean -Pierre and Big Bucket. I wish I was making
that last name up. So my first note on this movie,
and this is the first note, so you can already
tell what kind of movie this is going to be.
I said, can already tell this is going to be
bad. Thank God this is only one and a half hours
long. And I mean, a movie where Wee Man is the
main actor, you can't be surprised that this
is going to be bad. Eric, the dad, he created
a chip that basically makes renewable energy.
And so it can power up a whole house by itself.
And he calls his investor to try to get him on
the phone to basically take the chip and put
it under lock and key. The investor's name is
Stu. He's not really... A big deal in this thing.
You see him one phone call and then he's gone.
But he was just kind of. It's Christmas Eve.
We're not going to deal with it until after Christmas.
I'm not going to come get it. Just hold on to
it. Put it in a safe spot. So Eric's doing all
this stuff. And basically he's forgotten about
a lot of things. That he usually does with his
kids. For the Christmas season. There's no mom
in the picture. We really don't know what happened.
But you just know there's no mom. Until when
they're putting stuff on the tree. The daughter
has this terrible line read of, I miss mommy,
like out of nowhere. Oh, look at this tree. It's
so great. I miss mommy. What? Where'd that come
from? Kid, what are you doing? It isn't really
their fault. The dialogue is not great. But there's
some of these lines that's just like, the kids
say stuff at the same time. And it's like, goody,
goody. And that kind of stuff where it's just
somebody who doesn't know how kids talk. just
wrote kids dialogue all of this decorating they're
doing is juxtaposed with grandma driving to their
house and it's like long scenes of grandma just
driving ridiculously slow and it's over the river
and through the hills kind of driving when she
finally gets there eric says okay great you're
gonna watch the kids i gotta get the ham because
i totally forgot to pick it up from the butchers
the kids help grandma load all of her stuff into
the house and she basically says i've got a fruitcake
but this famous fruitcake for whatever reason
for like 20 seconds has this demon face that
opens up and just kind of and then it disappears
and it's a normal fruitcake again there's no
no reason for it it's just a joke on the fact
that hey grandma's terrible at cooking we're
led to believe that eric only has to get ham
but we see him in the next scene and it's shifted
to nighttime it's not even day anymore it's shifted
to nighttime and he has like packages of stuff
but we only thought he was going to get the ham
from the butcher at the butcher eric runs into
amy who's like the assistant butcher there and
basically they just have this weird flirtation
like you can tell there's something going on
between them but they're just absolutely awful
at flirting it's just uncomfortable kinds of
yeah so what are you doing for the holidays uh
-huh yeah great but basically eric fights fights
up the nerve and asks amy if she wants to come
over and do christmas with them or christmas
eve at least with them and originally she's just
no we're open late i can't do anything and eric's
kind of well you can come over whenever you know
it's okay the deli owner's just like oh amy you
can go it's fine i know you're you're kind of
in love with this guy why don't you just go and
she's like oh no i i couldn't yeah you're watching
the shop and he goes i'm jewish it's fine one
of the few good jokes about this i'm not gonna
lie eric leaves the butcher after he's got his
stuff and basically amy follows right behind
him so we think we're gonna see her pretty close
to when eric gets home then it flashes back to
the house and grandma is talking with casey casey's
the young girl and basically She's missing her
mom. And we get some backstory about this is
always sad for everyone because mom died around
this time and everything. And the grandma gives
this world class advice. She isn't ever coming
back. So Casey basically drops it because, you
know, she was just told that her mother's never
coming back and doesn't love her pretty much.
And grandma gives this little elf toy to Casey.
And basically says, if you have a Christmas wish,
you wish on this elf and it'll come true. They
will. They'll work hard to make it come true.
And it only works on Christmas and everything
like that. And so Casey cuddles the elf and wishes
for her family to be together and happy again.
So remember that original thing? It was like,
yeah, OK, save us from a lousy Christmas. Cool.
I would believe that if that's. how they went
down this road after this but that's not how
it goes we see terrible cgi of a sleigh and reindeer
going onto the roof of the house and santa's
there with the elf navigator who doesn't have
a name it's just elf navigator and we man we
man is just named elf he's either known as elf
or elf man in this entire movie so elf is in
the back, and he's disgruntled because he finally
gets sleigh duty, which is great. Everybody wants
sleigh duty. But his job is just scooping up
reindeer poop so that there's no sign that Santa
was there. He's in the back of the sleigh, and
he just knows. He's looking up at the sky, and
he just knows that there's something more for
him out there. Meanwhile, we go back to town,
and we see Eric, and he's getting into his car,
and everything's great. And then all of a sudden...
He doesn't make it into the car before these
three guys grab him and throw him in the back
of a van. And not just any van, a flower van.
This is going to be a real lousy Christmas if
the dad gets murdered. Obviously, they want the
chip. They want him to tell them where it is,
but he's not going to tell them. So Eric's kidnapped
in this van. Wee Man slash Elf is on the roof.
Santa's in the house. Santa hears Casey crying
on the Elf doll. And kind of hears what she had
wished for because she wished it on the elf.
So Santa knows exactly what to do. As he goes
up on the roof, he leaves elf behind. Accidentally
at first, you'd think. But Santa always has a
plan. One of the things we don't know at this
point, but elf definitely does, is that this
happens sometimes. He needs to figure out the
wish, resolve it, all before Santa gets back
by the break of dawn. In a moment that's supposed
to be funny, Elf falls off the roof and is starting
to walk around the house and trying to figure
out how to get in there and figure out what the
wish is. At the same time, the van drives by
with the kidnappers and Eric. And Eric sees the
shadow and is just like, yeah, this is my security.
You have no chance to get in there. And then
they see... elf walking around and see his size
and the stature and everything and they're all
we're gonna be fine except for the main guy who
thinks he's a troll and when he says that they
all look up at the same time and go patrol troll
In A Thing of Beauty, that actually is one of
my other favorite parts of this movie. There's
three parts that probably are my favorite parts
of this movie. There's the Jewish deli owner
who's just like, I'm Jewish, what do I care?
There's patrol troll, and then there's something
else coming at the end. The main kidnapper has
apparently dealt with trolls before and thinks
that the one troll is going to stop them from
breaking in and stealing the chip. That's enough
for the kidnappers to feel like they have to
regroup and figure out their next plan. So where
do they go? They go to the abandoned barn that's
pretty much right across the street from the
house. Elf is trying to find a way inside the
house, and he doesn't want to wake anybody. I
don't know why, because again, we didn't know
it at this point, but now knowing, it doesn't
make sense that he doesn't want to know what
the wish is. Because if he doesn't do it, then
Santa doesn't pick him up again until he solves
the wish, pretty much. Or at least that's what
they made it seem like. So he's trying to sneak
into the house and he is able to create like
this doggy door in the window that he can sneak
through. It literally is. He uses magic to make
this door that really is like a doggy door. It
can only push inside the house and it can only
fit his elfness or maybe a kid his size. When
he's inside the house, he's exploring the house
and he sees cookies that grandma has made that
they are completely burnt. The whole joke the
entire time is that grandma is a terrible cook
and there's plenty of times where that comes
into play. But he's able to turn these cookies.
He's able to unburn them so that they're normal
cookies and he just starts chowing down. This
is the part where I had a problem. So like they
said during the synopsis that they're supposed
to help him find his powers. But he already kind
of knows how to make a doggy door, and he also
knows how to unburn cookies. Are we just supposed
to believe that he doesn't know about his other
powers? Does he just forget about his other powers?
Does he just think these are the only two things
he can do? Now we go back to the kidnappers,
and we kind of learn a little more about them.
Mickey is the leader of this group. He's also
the one that is most... I'll say cautious. I
don't really mean cautious, but he's the most
superstitious. He's the one that saw the troll
and was kind of like, trolls are bad luck. We
can't fight a troll. The other two, one of them's
name is JP or Jean -Pierre. He has a terrible
French accent the entire time, like omelette
du fromage. Oh, my God. Sacre bleu. And the final
one is definitely the muscle, but also like the
smartest one of them. His name is Big Bucket.
I don't know why he's called Big Bucket. I really
wish he had a better name. Mickey tells Big Bucket
that he needs to figure out how to turn off all
the cell phones, signals, and all the lights
on the street, as well as he needs to go to the
store to get Troll Off, which is really what
it sounds like. It's like the bug spray off,
but for trolls. It also becomes pretty apparent
at this point that Mickey doesn't trust JP. So
he leaves all this up to Big Bucket because he
really just trusts Big Bucket. So Big Bucket
goes off to do all the chores that he was assigned.
So the kids, Ryan and Casey, they hear something
downstairs and they go downstairs. Ryan's trying
to be a tough guy, but Casey recognizes that
it's the elf she kind of wished for that's supposed
to make her wish come true. Elf doesn't want
any part of it. He doesn't want to help out or
anything like that. But Casey basically... gets
him to admit that if he doesn't santa is not
going to take him back to the north pole he kind
of agrees to vague i hope we're uh i want my
family together and i hope we're happy um at
this point they kind of don't know that the dad's
been kidnapped they just assume he's taking his
time in town and just hasn't gotten back yet
and that's when the doorbell rings After like
four hours, it seems like, of in -movie time,
Amy has finally gotten there and they need to
hide the elf as well as they pretend that Eric
the dad is there for some reason. And I still
don't know why they did that, but they pretend
he's there. So they have the elf go into the
shower and start singing and turning on like
shavers and blow dryers and stuff like that.
Just to give the appearance that he's there.
I don't know why they're pretending that he is
home. They could just say that he hasn't been
home yet. And even grandma's in on the joke and
knows that the elf is there. And so it just doesn't
make sense to me. Like, yeah, okay, hide the
elf. For sure, hide the elf. Because nobody's
going to believe that you have a freaking elf.
But why are you pretending the dad is there if
he hasn't gotten back yet? Now that the elf's
in hiding, Amy's at the house, and the kidnappers
have Eric. It seems like a good time to give
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that's okay. That's his choice. All right, so
now we're back. So Amy's in the house. The elf
is in the house pretending to be Eric, and Eric
is at the barn across the street with the kidnappers.
Grandma is trying to appease Amy by keep giving
her food that's just absolutely god -awful, including
eggnog that has, like, turkey eggs in it. That's
kind of the joke. I just include a note saying
that this gross food is just a dumb joke and
just shouldn't be a part of this. Big Bucket
is returning from the store, but his light is
out and a police officer pulls him over and basically
was just, hey, what are you doing here? And kind
of ribbing him a little bit and says at the end,
you know, I'm just fucking with the big man.
Like, it's OK. It's all good and everything like
that. What are you doing out here? And Big Bucket's
just like, well, I'll be honest. I'm out on parole.
I'm hanging out with other criminals. We've kidnapped
this guy for this microchip that he has. And
we're just trying to get that microchip and sell
it for millions of dollars by the end of the
week. And the cop's just kind of, oh, that's
funny. You're messing me. You got me back. The
only reason I include this exchange is because
I need you all to know what the character's name
is for the officer. It is Officer Schlub. They
didn't want to call him anything else except
for Officer Schlub. So, yeah, there you go. I
know this information, now you need to know this
information too. Big Bucket's still my favorite
of the three criminals, and he's definitely the
smartest and strongest of the three as well.
That's it at this point. He's headed back to
the barn, but JP has an idea. He basically is
pretending to be an electrician and needs to
get into the lab to fix the wiring because it's
about to overheat, and he knew that out of nowhere.
Grandma doesn't really believe the phony baloney
story, but at the same time lets him in to go
take a look upstairs. This is also the part I've
noticed that Grandma's lines start getting, I
think, a little more drunker or she forgot to
put her teeth in because it's starting to become
a little more... That kind of stuff. It's definitely
old lady, like, forgetting her teeth kind of
lines now. JP in disguise goes up to the office
or the lab where the microchip is supposed to
be. But Elf kind of hears him and is wondering
what's happening, so he kind of follows him up
there. And when he sees him start looking around,
he kind of starts fighting him thinking, hey,
you're not supposed to be up here. Grabs him.
And in the commotion, they fall out a window
and they fall down to the ground. This house
is like five stories tall. I'm pretty sure either
of them would have been dead. It knocks out Elf
and JP is able to run away and get into the van.
This van is very noticeable because again, it
says like flowers on it. It's, it's a very noticeable
van. So elf is able to wake up from being knocked
out from falling five stories and is able to
catch the van that JP is in and see it drive
to the barn across the street. So now he knows,
Hey, this is probably where Eric is. So he goes
and tells the family and Amy sees elf for the
first time. And there's just kind of, uh, that's
a, that's a fucking elf. What the fuck is it
doing here? They explain the whole situation.
She's still a little crazy about it, but doesn't
believe it. But they know he's going to be the
one that has to save Eric. So they go to the
barn and elf man slash elf kind of sneaks in
and is trying to untie Eric before the kidnappers
see him. He's almost there when. He's almost
there getting Eric untied when Mickey comes in
and sees him and holds up this brand new can
of Troll Off. Once again, some of these jokes,
man, they were desperate. So Elf, not willing
to be sprayed with this Troll Off, runs away
and goes into this further part of the barn.
And everything he grabs turns into a toy for
some reason. So all of it's like magically turning
into a toy. And he's just kind of like... Well,
shit. Okay, I gotta get away from this. So, he
gets outside the barn and waves his fingers and
makes the hill to the house just covered in snow
like a snowboarding hill. And then he's able
to turn a 2x4 into a snowboard and snowboard
away from them. And this was actually, I think,
a smart decision. It's not filmed well at all.
But... Wee Man's background is skateboarding,
snowboarding, that kind of stuff. Why not give
him a snowboarding scene? If this was done right,
this could actually have been a pretty cool scene,
but of course they fucked it up. Too many cuts,
so you don't see actual any snowboarding. It's
just kind of his head, then the snowboard, and
then it's the bad guys realizing that it's all
snow, and they're not able to catch up with him,
and he gets to the house. So now the family is
fully aware that Eric has been kidnapped, that
they're trying to steal the chip and that elf
man doesn't think he can do anything. So he doesn't
want to help anymore. And of course it pisses
off Casey, but he's just like, I'm just going
to wait for Santa on the roof and I'm not going
to help anymore. You know what it's time for
a montage. That's what we need. A montage. Basically.
They come up with the idea that Elfman needs
his own costume to make him believe in himself.
So they need to put together this costume. And
so it's a montage of them trying different looks,
trying different materials to make Elfman this
costume. They haven't measured him or anything,
but it's just perfect by the end because, you
know, movie. So Amy gets on and off the roof.
It's very awkward both times when she gets on
and off the roof, but it's. In the middle, there's
this big passionate speech of, we need you, we
need you to help, and everything like that. And
I think the scenes of her trying to get on and
off the roof, she backs up to get on the roof
and backs up to get off the roof. I really think
it's to show off her butt in those yoga pants.
Which I don't think I would have been aware of
if they didn't make it blatantly obvious. That's
the thing about the whole thing. It was very...
obvious that they want her to lead with her butt
so that's that's the reason i think they did
this but she gives this whole passionate speech
and basically gets elf man to believe himself
and then gives him the costume and he's kind
of looking at it and it's like it's cheap it's
homemade and everything like that it's not what
you see on the cover quite yet While the burglars
are watching the house and trying to figure out
a plan, Eric has been cutting away at his ropes
and he's able to get away and get back to the
house. So he's safe now. And you're probably
thinking, well, how did he get away? How did
he have all that time? Well, he just had to cut
the ropes and get across the street because the
kidnappers decided they were just going to hang
out across the fucking street from the house
they're trying to break into and rob. The robber's
now realizing that they don't have Eric anymore
and... The family is kind of preparing this defense
for when they come. The robbers get into the
van and pull into the driveway. Grandma's looking
out the window and she looks at the van pulling
in and goes, Sundays are coming. I don't know
why. And I said this movie really wants to be
home alone meets superhero movie. Like so badly,
this is what it wants to be. You can tell that
this is what it's looking up to. but it just
never gets to that good point for either of them.
It's a terrible Home Alone ripoff. It's an awful
superhero ripoff. It just never hits that. So
before they leave the van, Elfman, now making
some magic to make his costume a little better,
and this is the one you see in the pictures and
everything like that, he stands in front of the
front door. To his left on the porch, sitting
on the swing, is JP. To the right on the porch
is Big Bucket. And down the middle of the steps
is Mickey. Kind of does that western theme, you
know, like the... That kind of thing. And this
is the third joke that I actually kind of liked.
Usually when there's a western like this, the
tumbleweed rolls across and everything like that.
They made it a wreath. I actually thought that
was a very funny, well -done movie on that one.
elfman is ready to save the day and mickey comes
closer to him and basically he's able to fight
off mickey for a little bit he's able to fight
off jp and finally big bucket but mickey gets
back to him and pulls out the secret weapon it's
mistletoe i didn't know that mistletoe is apparently
harmful to elves because he's able to use it
like a lightning bolt and shock elfman and like
hold him down and it's Terrible CGI, but it is
a thing that happens. I guess I don't understand
why mistletoe is the thing that can hurt an elf
so badly. Mickey is able to use the mistletoe
to push Elfman through the front door where the
family's waiting with weapons and stuff. And
by weapons, I mean Amy has a rolling pin kind
of thing. They see that the mistletoe is hurting
Elfman and Casey knows that the only way to combat
the mistletoe hurting Elfman is to kiss under
it. So basically forces Eric and Amy to like
give this make out session because it turns the
negative energy. It reverses it into positive
energy that doesn't help Elfman, but it doesn't
hurt him as much anymore. So they just do like
this full make out. And this is all after Eric
gave the chip to Mickey because he didn't want
Elfman to get killed. So the kidnappers are happy.
They hop in their van and instead of driving
away, you know, they go to the abandoned barn
because that's where they're holed up at instead
of, you know, escaping, whatever. Elfman is slowly
reviving from the result of the. negative energy
of the mistletoe eric and amy are just like yay
they love each other grandma's happy casey is
happy ryan he didn't really like amy but now
he's kind of happy so it's all fine and then
elf man swears that he's going to get the chip
back and so he flies out the door and basically
flies away like flies through the town and everything
like that and you're just like cool so he's just
gonna stop him and everything like that and then
he flies back to the barn where they're hanging
out and they can see from the house he flew so
far away that they definitely could not see him
there's no way in hell they could see him and
then he must have flown back because now they're
watching as if he's across the street at the
barn they no longer have mistletoe they're one
thing that was working against elfman elfman's
able to kick all of their asses pretty much he
kicks mickey And grabs the chip and swallows
it. Which I don't understand why, but he swallowed
it. And then the whole family's there. And they're
able to help him and give him support by throwing
fruitcakes at Big Bucket. Or all this Christmassy
weaponry and stuff like that. And so they're
able to distract him so he can take him one -on
-one. So Elfman's not overpowered. And they make
sure there's no mistletoe or anything like that.
And then finally, the last thing that happens
is the three of them are about to get away because
they're able to escape and run away. Even though
they don't have the chip, they can at least get
away and not get arrested. Well, Grandma brings
her old demon face fruitcake and throws it. And
Elfman basically just enlarges the demon face
fruitcake and it falls on them and crushes them.
So they're held in position until... officer
schlub can get there and arrest them all and
kind of saves the day. So I'll fans done it.
He stopped the bad guys. He has the chip, even
though he swallowed the chip. And one of the
things I forgot to mention is he can like burp
bubbles. So he burps a bubble that has the chip
pops it and gives it back to Eric and the family.
They're all congratulating him, save the day,
everything like that. You know, they're all happy.
And Elfman kind of realizes his job is done.
The family's happy. They're together again. Amy
and Eric are together. So Casey's happy. But
Casey's also not happy because she feels abandoned
because Elfman's going to leave. Well, Elfman
just kind of says, like, I'm always here with
you. I built this elf toy, so it will always
be with you. If you ever have a wish, make it
on there, and I'll be here. But I've got to help
other boys and girls who have wishes, too. Elfman
needs to save the day. So Santa picks him up,
and Elfman's on his way to help other boys and
girls across the world. And Elfman, too, could
come any day now. And by any day... Please, dear
God, not anytime soon. So yeah, that's Elfman.
That is the third bad Christmas movie that we
decided to watch for this podcast. I'm going
to say, if I'm saying that Wee Man is the best
part of your cast, that's probably a bad sign,
right? I'm not saying Wee Man for a jackass movie.
I'm saying Wee Man in this role is... The best
of this movie. That's not a good sign. That just
isn't because we man's not necessarily an actor.
There's some absolutely terrible lines in here.
There's plenty of times where I'm just sitting
there going, did he really just fucking say that?
Did they just really say that? Oh my God. Patrol
troll was the one exception. It's terrible line,
but it's funny. And the, uh, I'm Jewish. Get
out of here. Those are all pretty decent lines,
but the rest of the stuff, not very great. And
this is coming from the guy. So the, one of the
writers of this movie is also, he's also the
director, but his name is Ethan Wiley. Ethan
Wiley is responsible for giving us house and
house to the second story. Those are fine enough
movies. Like they're indie gems, but they're
fine enough movies. Those are the first two movies
he wrote. And then Children of the Corn 5, Fields
of Tear. After that, pretty much all straight
to video stuff. Although Children of the Corn
5 might have been too. But I know for certain
the rest of it definitely was. This was as well
probably one of the reasons why it was so hard
for people to guess and everything like that.
Just to give you more on the topic about Ethan
Wiley. He's a director and he doesn't have...
a picture on his IMDb page. That says a lot about
what you need to know about this guy. The other
guy who was responsible for writing it is Richard
Jeffries, who, this was the last movie he wrote.
This was in 2012. And it's not like the stuff
he wrote before this was real gems either, but
this is the last thing he wrote so far. That's
a long gap. It's been 11 years since you've written
anything. This movie was a 24 % audience score
on Rotten Tomatoes. It is 3 .4 out of 10 on IMDb.
You know, it's just everything about it was cheap.
Everything about it was cheesy. And it's not
a good film. It just is not all the way around.
I would love to say something good about it.
But really, I can't even find one good thing
to say about it besides the three. gags that
I laughed at and I'm not saying I liked I laughed
at as far as where this is concerned on the list
I've got this one as my fourth worst movie I've
watched for this podcast pretty confident that's
all you need to know about this fourth worst
film I've seen for this podcast so yeah I would
love to say more about Elfman, but I really have
nothing good to say about it. And my mom raised
me that if you don't have anything nice to say,
don't say anything at all. So I'm just going
to stop talking bad about this movie because
it just was awful. Elfman, yeah. Nice try, Wee
Man. Nice try. I see your goal here. You wanted
to break into movies and especially something
like this. Family friendly, fair. It could have
done well for you. I get it. It didn't work.
Back to the drawing board or jackass movies.
Yeah, so that's Elfman. That's the first of two
Christmas movies we are watching this month.
There's another one coming out in a couple weeks.
We also have a movie banter episode that should
be coming out next week. There's tons of good
stuff that I've seen for this that Jill and Andre
have seen for this. We're getting the whole crew
back together. It will be really good. I have
a lot to choose from of movies that I've seen
recently. And I don't know what we're going to
talk about. I'm actually looking forward to it.
But yeah, so that was Elfman, the latest bad
movie on this bad movie podcast, Game for a Movie,
where we ask, are you game for a movie? I've
been Mike, your host for this episode. Thank
you guys very much for tuning in. I'm glad you
once again decided to listen to my lovely voice,
my charming voice. Tell me some bad movies that
you think we should cover on the podcast next.
Always looking for the next worst thing. And
we'll see you next time on Game for a Movie.
Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah to all that celebrate.
See you next time.