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"Kids came in, I told them Santa's hat was missing as a naughty elf had stolen it and they needed to raise Christmas spirit and find it," Mrs Miller, of Darlington, said.

Father Christmas was announced to guests by an elf - the couple's youngest son.

In the film, Buddy is an adult human who had been raised by elves at the North Pole but travels to New York to meet his biological father.

She encounters elves fixing the trashed house, models playing Twister in high heels, Jesus opening a fridge to check for food and a woman destroying a Christmas tree with garden shears.

We believe in Santa Claus, reindeer that fly, and elves on shelves that descend from the North Pole and embed themselves in our homes.