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Once upon a time, Santa operated with just a small workshop and a few elves. But, as Christmas has grown ever bigger, Santa has been forced to innovate! Now his cleverest elves develop amazing technology, including a hologram to hide the North Pole and a time machine to allow Santa to deliver presents to every home in the world, in just the one night. Bernard is an elf who dreams of creating such inventions, but his job is to clean the reindeer stables! Yet when he creates an amazing Christmas memory machine, his luck might be changing. But Bernard s invention is broken by a curious elf, causing the North Pole s power to fail and the hologram hiding it to disappear. Now exposed to the outside world, it is spotted by Santa s enemy, Nevill Baddington, who is determined to steal Santa s secrets for himself. The only person who can stop them is Bernard...

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 22 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2014
Studio ‏ : ‎ Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00I5QVT3S
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Thomas Lee Mullins

a beautiful movie with a positive story

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023

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I love the story in this movie. I love the music in it too. It is a wholesome family movie with a positive theme to it. I think everyone would be able to enjoy it; the whole family. the animation is really good.

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023

Good family movie!

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2021

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I LOVE this movie.
I’m an adult and needed a movie to show my kindergarten students. I LOVE this! Check out the cast!!!
And kids find it funny too. And it’s complicated enough to do good retells on to see who is comprehending what is happening.

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M. Forrest

Solid

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014

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I was looking for a movie for the kids (boys 6 & 8) to watch during the holiday season before Christmas. I had not heard of this movie nor had the kids seen it. It has a nice story and good characters. It's not as slick as say, Arthur Christmas, but its very clever. I'm not sure my six year old was getting the whole time travel thing but there was enough slapstick and kid jokes to keep him interested. We'll be watching this one again next year.

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samcvay

Nice

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2020

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A great Christmas movie that I wish was more well known. I remember watching one year on a streaming service but was not able to find it for 2 years after. Finy after the 3rd holiday searching I was able to guess the name of this movie enough to find it.

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rebecca culliford

Wonderful Christmas Film!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2018

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Very original, fun, and festive! Martin Freeman does a spectacular job, the original songs are fun, the animation is cute - an all around win! My kids love it and it's a great family Christmas movie!

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Just ok

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2016

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A little boring for grown-ups, but suitable for kids.

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2018

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LOve this movie, first saw it last year was free on Amazon, this year instead of having to pay to see it bought it. This is one of my favorit movies for Christmas. If have not saw,I think U should.

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SAVING SANTA 3D [2013 / 2014] [3D Blu-ray + 2D Blu-ray]

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2017

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SAVING SANTA 3D [2013 / 2014] [3D Blu-ray + 2D Blu-ray] The Amazing Adventures Of A Time-Travelling Elf!

Once upon a time, Santa operated with just a small workshop and a few elves. But, as Christmas has grown ever bigger, Santa has been forced to innovate!

Now his cleverest elves develop amazing technology, including a hologram to hide the North Pole and a time machine to allow Santa to deliver presents to every home in the world, in just the one night.

Bernard is an elf who dreams of creating such inventions, but his job is to clean the reindeer stables! Yet when Bernard D. Elf creates an amazing Christmas memory machine, his luck might be changing. But Bernard D. Elf’s invention is broken by a curious elf, causing the North Pole’s power to fail and the hologram hiding it to disappear. Now exposed to the outside world, it is spotted by Santa s enemy, Nevill Baddington, who is determined to steal Santa’s secrets for himself. The only person who can stop them is Bernard D. Elf!

Voice Cast: Martin Freeman, Tim Curry, Noel Clarke, Tim Conway [Santa], Pam Ferris, Ashley Tisdale, Joan Collins, Chris Barrie, Nicholas Guest, Richard Steven Horvitz, Rebecca Ferdinando, Craig Fairbrass, Terry Stone, Alex Walkinshaw, Tom Baker, Newell Alexander, Tim Conway, David Cowgill, Holly Dorff, Moosie Drier, Jackie Gonneau, David Zyler, Katarzyna Laska, Ricky Roxburgh, Nick Simunek, Gregor Truter, Toby Williams and Xavier Alcan (uncredited)

Directors: Aaron Seelman and Leon Joosen

Producers: Anil Samani, Arish Fyzee, Brian Gray, Chris Howard, Chris Rokos, Frank Mannion, John Kennedy, John McKenna, Kristin Dornig, Lee Hodgkinson, Lord Kirkham, Martin Hughes, Max Howard, Mike Diamond, Mike Watson, Nathan Baggett, Nia Syson, Nick Simunek, Paul McKeon, Presley Warner, Ramsay McBean, Terry Byrne, Terry Stone, Tony Jimenez, Tony Nottage and Victoria Itow

Screenplay: Ricky Roxburgh (screenplay) and Tony Nottage (story)

Composer: Grant Olding

Image Resolution: 1080p

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and English: 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio

Subtitles: None

Running Time: 84 minutes

Region: Region B/2

Number of discs: 1

Studio: The Weinstein Company / Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment / Gateway Films / Prana Studios

Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: ‘SAVING SANTA’ 3D [2013] is set in a future where the demands on Santa [Tim Conway] have increased so much that he has been forced to employ technology in order to ensure that he can reach every children in one night. Santa has a crack team of elves, whose job it is to invent the necessary items to assist him. He is now the proud owner of a hologram which disguises the location of the North Pole and a sleigh which still uses his flying reindeer, but can now time travel.

The crux of this tale is we are introduced to Bernard D. Elf [Martin Freeman] who narrates the start of the animated film, who is a stable elf who wants nothing more than to become one of Santa’s inventors. Bernard D. Elf wants to demonstrate his memory machine, who he feels to be just the thing, until it malfunctions, and causes the hologram defence to fail, revealing the location of the North Pole to Neville Baddington [Tim Curry] who is the owner of a rival delivery company who is determined to discover the secret of Santa’s success and take over from him. It is up to Bernard D. Elf to use his knowledge of time travel in order to undo his mistake and save Christmas, but will be able to save the day and prevent a time travel disaster.

Drawing obvious inspiration from films like ‘Back to the Future’ and also parallels to the film ‘Groundhog Day,’ as Bernard D. Elf realises he is forced to go back in time repeatedly, reliving and re-experiencing earlier events from a different vantage point. As such, ‘SAVINF SANTA’ 3D may feel a tad too familiar and some people might put their head in their hands when they keep seeing Bernard D. Elf keep making mistakes after mistakes, where you think he is never going to succeed in saving the day.

The film also stars Noel Clarke, Ashley Tisdale and Joan Collins and the voice acting in this production is, as you might expect, pretty good, but sadly it is let down a little by a slightly uninspiring script. The tendency of the characters to randomly burst into Disneyesque song and dance routines in order to explain what should be an obvious moral is quite irritating and unfortunately the songs aren’t really catchy enough to justify their presence.

The animation style is very nice and simple, and extremely colourful and effective, for an animated film which is obviously aimed at a young age group, I am sure the older generation will also enjoy the animated film. The 3D element does enhance everything somewhat, although it is quite basic and it seems pitched at about the right sort of level. ‘SAVINF SANTA’ 3D strength is in picture and sound quality that comes through 100% on this flawless Blu-ray disc transfer.

What doesn’t seem quite so suitable however is some of the content. I am unsure whether children would connect with an evil delivery man, or know much about corporate business matters and there is some question as to whether they would really get the song lyrics, but I suppose maybe none of that really matters, they should sit back, relax and enjoy the 3D animated film. This would still be a good animated film to sit and watch with the whole family and contains plenty of healthy messages about the value of friendship and loyalty, which children will definitely love and enjoy.

SAVING SANTA MUSIC TRACK LIST

A CHRISTMAS WISH (Music & Lyrics by Grant Olding) [Performed by Benjy Norman]

PROSPECTS (Music & Lyrics by Grant Olding) [Performed by Martin Freeman]

AN ELF LIKE ME (Music & Lyrics by Grant Olding) [Performed by Martin Freeman]

DO OR DIE (Music & Lyrics by Grant Olding) [Performed by Ashley Tisdale and Martin Freeman]

SWINGLE BELLS (Song Arranged and Additional Lyrics by Grant Olding)

12 DAYS OF ELEVATOR MUZAK (Song Arranged and Additional Lyrics by Grant Olding)

SOME KIND OF MAGIC (Music & Lyrics by Mark Yaeger) [Performed by Ashley Tisdale] [Background vocals by Rachael Dahl, Jessica Burgan, Benjamin Willan and Vincent Walker]

A CHRISTMAS WISH (Reprise) (Music & Lyrics by Grant Olding) [Performed by Benjy Norman, Tim Conway, Ashley Tisdale and Martin Freeman]

3D Blu-ray Video Quality – The Weinstein Company and Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment brings us this Blu-ray disc that looks absolutely terrific and especially gives a very good 1080p image presentation and of course the 3D is really good, especially with the more dramatic scenes. The 1.78:1 aspect ratio presentation is clean, vivid and overall is very good. Being purposely shot as a 3D animated film, there are plenty of brilliant realistic elements, with careful framing in mind to make the best use of the extra depth associated with the 3D format. Even with the simplest of shots, such as with the foreground frame really seems to give you a real sense of 3D experience. The rest of the images you experience fairs just as well and is very clean, bright and also very detailed. Colours are bright; and especially can sometimes be very bold and the contrast gives some terrific blacks that always comes with the usual 3D caveat. But a lot of critics have said the 3D is not very good, well obviously they are obviously not viewing the same 3D Blu-ray disc as me or maybe they accidentally watched the Blu-ray in the 2D image presentation, because I found the 3D effects had a really very good depth of field and so all in all, this is a really good effort on the part of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment. Please Note: Playback Region B/2: This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Learn more about Blu-ray region specifications.

3D Blu-ray Audio Quality – The Weinstein Company and Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment brings us a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix showcases some truly cool sound design, exploring the entire field for some potent directional effects. Well, just as the picture is absorbing and engaging, so too is the sound, which makes full use of the surround effects to give you some really good effects with the more challenging scenes where lots of action is going on. Dialogue is given frontal priority, though there is some directionality when called for, and it also sounds very natural and distinct never once straining to be heard. The film music score and the songs sung are given decent surround sound making use of all the. On the whole this is a terrific audio track gives plenty of effects to keep you enjoying this 3D animated film throughout the 84 minutes and once again this is a really good effort from Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.

Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:

Special Feature: Saving Santa Recording Sessions [2013] [1080p] [1.78:1] [4:22] Here essentially is a look behind-the-scene footage of the three main stars doing some of their voice-over work. Martin Freeman plays Bernard D. Elf, Tim Conway [American actor] who plays Santa and Ashley Tisdale [American actress] plays Shiny. Although the voice cast recordings are generally quite good, the one with Martin Freeman just goes onto inform us that the likeable actor felt he was not a great choice for Bernard D. Elf, especially when it comes to some rather awful flat as a pancake singing, it really grates on you. It's interesting to see how different cast members sit or stand whilst delivering the dialogue, with Ashley Tisdale looking in particular comfort sitting down and just getting on with it, personally I could not stand her shrill voice. This is an unexpected little gem of a special feature.

Special Feature: Some Kind of Miracle [Music Video] [2013] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:47] With this music video we get to hear it performed by actress, and ex-Disney star Ashley Tisdale. The song suits the 3D animated film perfectly well, and I'm sure any 5 to 10 year old is the real targeted audience for this music video and of course I know they will love it. It is an upbeat pop-based track set to footage from the 3D animated film ‘SAVING SANTA.’

Special Feature: Why Saving Santa? [2013] [1080p] [1.78:1] [5:49] With this very short special feature, we get to see several crew members talking about the magic of Christmas and the background story for the 3D animated film ‘SAVING SANTA,’ the casting of the voice cast, the characters, the music, and how they all fitted together to bring the story alive and the thoughts behind why they wanted to do this animated film so much. We also again get to see Martin Freeman doing his voice recording session. The crew members that are interviewed certainly show a lot of enthusiasm for the project, and that vibe rubs off to make for a very enjoyable, but sadly a very short feature. Contributors include: Arsih Fyzee [Co-Producer], Max Howard [Executive Producer], Terry Stone [Producer], Leon Joosen [Director], Maggie Rodford [Music Supervisor] and Grant Olding [Composer].

Theatrical Trailer [2013] [1080p] [1.78:1] [2:02] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the animated film ‘SAVING SANTA’ 3D, but of course we only get to view it in 2D.

Finally, ‘SAVING SANTA’ 3D [2013] is a very entertaining CGI animated film, and for the anyone who have seen it, sometimes reminds them of “Back to the future” because of the time-travel aspect. Just like in those movies, Bernard D. Elf sometimes nearly meets himself from the past, which of course gets him into all kinds of trouble. Although the ending is never uncertain, and like usually in such kinds of family-films, this predictability is never a disturbance in ‘SAVING SANTA’ 3D. There are some witty jokes involved and although the chronological leaps might sometimes confuse the smallest and young children amongst us, and the story line always remains rather clear throughout the animated cartoon. Animation-wise it is clear it was a rather low-budget project. It can be easily distinguished from the big players of the industry, but it is still very appealing. The characters are cute enough and they have put enough work into their backgrounds. All in all, SAVING SANTA’ 3D is a heartfelt Christmas animation and certainly deserves an audience, especially on this 3D Blu-ray disc. Highly Recommended!

Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom

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字幕はありません。

Reviewed in Japan on October 27, 2021

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日本語訳はもちろんありませんが、そもそも字幕がありませんでした。
字幕すらないのもあるんですね。
3D映像自体は特筆すべきところはなく、奥行き感もあまりなく、まあ値段からしてこんなもんかなと。

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Zurück in die Zukunft meets Santa

Reviewed in Germany on January 6, 2016

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Ich war sehr überrascht mit dem Film.
Zuerst hab ich gedacht es ist wieder nur ein Kinderfilm den man 1 x anschaut.
Der heutige Animation Film Standard heute ist Disney, Blue Sky und Dreamworks Animationsfilme.
Aber der Film war sehr unterhaltsam und hab ich bereits ein zweites Mal während der
Weihnachtszeit geschaut.
Will jetzt nicht zuviel spoilern aber Zeitreise spielt einen gewissen Faktor in diesem Film was
das ganze Abenteuer des Elf Bernard sehr spannend macht.
Ein Film für die ganze Familie.
Wieder ein guter Film für die Weihnachtszeit und für meine Filmesammlung.

Mein Tipp noch wer die englische Tonspur nimmt wird von bekannten Stimmen überrascht

Martin Freeman (aka Bilbo Beutlin, Der Hobbit / Dr Watson Sherlock TV Serie)
Joan Collins (Denver Clan)
Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show )
Tim Conway (Spongebob Squareparent)
u.a.

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Eugenia C.

nice movie

Reviewed in Germany on July 25, 2016

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Excellent product. Very good quality. We are satisfied with the purchase and the delivery conditions. It looks made of good quality.

Mrs Grim

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2019

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Another great addition to my DVD film collection, great value for the price paid & a great family entertainment film for all ages & is absolutely fantastic in 3D!!

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Genre	Kids & Family
Format	PAL
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 22 minutes