Parents guide

There is an exciting snowball fight. Many people take direct hits to the face/torso.

There is several instances of mild, cartoonish violence/action in this movie, but they aren't really threatening, and no one is injured.

Buddy gets into a fight with the Santa at the department store, because he believes he's an imposter. There is some punching and kicking, but no blood or gore.

Buddy sees a ghost writer with dwarfism in his father's office and truly believes that he is an elf. This makes the man very angry, and he runs across the table and attacks Buddy. There is no blood, however. In the deleted scenes, the man slams Buddy's head repeatedly against an object, but this was removed from the final cut for obvious reasons.

1 or 2 uses of damn.

2 uses of "hell" and 1 use of "damn"

"God," "crap," "piss," "hell," and "damn" respectively.

A man is seen smoking while in prison.

Adults have wine at the dinner table (we do not see them drink).

We hear that gnomes weren't used at the North Pole because they drink too much (and see one doing that, followed by a loud belch).

Buddy has a bad dream and everything goes all wavy and bleak.

Buddy feels heartbroken and depressed after Walter shouts at him in a furious tone.