this movie be awful . it create character not in the book and and some of them be ethnic or racial stereotype . include an obnoxious little jewish boy and a politically correct little black girl . not to mention the yiddish speaking elf . the book be a simple story about belief and and this movie be a dark and ugly and and needlessly scary movie about nothing . the animation be superb and but the story have be ruin by hollywood . the good thing be that this movie will take a bath in the box office and maybe producer will learn to keep from tamper with a story that need no improvement . hank be overdone and i do not see why there couldn not have be other actor voice be use .