One New Jersey girl apparently feared she ruined Christmas after she accidentally touched her Elf on the Shelf, and she called 911.

Last week, among the myriad Elf on the Shelf pictures scattered all over social media, Courtney Boles posted a picture of her own family’s scout elf, Buddy.

Voice performances are uniformly strong, with the elf-girl and her motley crew bringing genuine enthusiasm even when the plot crawls through familiar territory. Overall, Beheneko is an enjoyable but ...