Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, J. K. Simmons, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Liu, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju
Story: Action adventure comedy directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Chris Morgan and Hiram Garcia. In Red One (2024) after a shocking abduction of Santa Claus (J. K. Simmons) from the North Pole, the Commander of the ELF (Extremely Large and Formidable) Task Force, Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson), must partner with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter, Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), to save Christmas.
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Top Entertaining Red One Quotes
Nick: [to the reindeer] Evening, ladies. What are you so excited about? Oh. Of course, your boyfriend’s here.
Callum Drift: We choose every day who we want to be. With big decisions and little ones, and every one of them matters. But I look around, and they act like none of it matters.
Nick: If nothing matters to them, it seems to me they need us now more than ever.
Callum Drift: That’s why there’s only one you.
Nick: Not our job to change people, Cal. People change themselves. We just show them that we believe in them. All of them. Because we know who they really are, down deep.
Nick: We know that somewhere inside every lost grown-up is the kid they once were. Our gift is that we can see that, even when they can’t.
Nick: We work for the kids, Cal, even when they’re not kids anymore.
Callum Drift: I’m just having a really hard time seeing it.
Nick: And that’s why.
Nick: Let’s have a cookie. The answer to everything.
Jack O’Malley: Yeah, well, you know, growing up is tough.
Olivia: Is that why you’re avoiding it?
Jack O’Malley: I walked right into that.
Jack O’Malley: Are you saying, Santa Claus has been kidnapped? And you think I had something to do with it?
Zoe: Jack “The Wolf” O’Malley, meet Callum Drift, commander of the E.L.F.
Jack O’Malley: The E.L.F.?
Callum Drift: They always know something. Sometimes you just got to shake it out of them.
Jack O’Malley: I’m not going to like you. I can tell right away, out of everyone here, I like you the least.
Jack O’Malley: I work alone.
Callum Drift: You used to.
Jack O’Malley: No offense, but I’m not rolling into Aruba undercover with a giant elf.
Jack O’Malley: [referring to the toy car] How did…
Callum Drift: I adjusted it to reality.
Jack O’Malley: And does that…
Callum Drift: No, it doesn’t work on everything. No, you can’t try it. No, you can’t drive.
Callum Drift: [to Jack, referring to E.L.F.] Enforcement, Logistics and Fortification. But as far as you’re concerned, it stands for Extremely Large and Formidable.
Jack O’Malley: Not a lot of fun, are you, Cal?
Callum Drift: Oh, I’m fun. As a matter of fact, I won the prize for most fun gift wrapper for a hundred and eighty-three years in a row.
Jack O’Malley: Well, I take it back.
Jack O’Malley: I see the worst in everyone, Cal. It’s my gift.
Jack O’Malley: [to the store clerk] Hey. You don’t have a Wonder Woman action figure, do you?
Callum Drift: That’s not how it works. Come on.
Jack O’Malley: Ah, dammit.
Jack O’Malley: Santa’s brother have a name, or is it just “Santa’s brother”?
Callum Drift: His name is Krampus.
Jack O’Malley: Wait a minute. Are you not human?
Callum Drift: Do I look human?
Callum Drift: They’re playing Krampusschlap.
Jack O’Malley: Krampusschlap?
Callum Drift: It’s the official game of Krampusnacht.
Callum Drift: Let’s save Christmas.
Jack O’Malley: I’m not going to say that. I’m going to need you to say, “Let’s save Christmas.”
Jack O’Malley: This something that happens to you a lot?
Callum Drift: Unexplained player piano in the middle of a German highway. No. This is rare.
Jack O’Malley: You may have done some things that you shouldn’t have. Everybody does. Everybody.
Jack O’Malley: Every day, every decision is an opportunity.
Jack O’Malley: For a guy like me, there’s worse ways to go out than by trying to save Santa Claus.
Callum Drift: What just happened?
Jack O’Malley: I think I just got a little bit nicer.
Jack O’Malley: [referring to Santa] He’s a lot cooler than I thought he was. And a lot more athletic.
Callum Drift: Yeah. Guy’s a beast.
Jack O’Malley: The guy is a beast.
Callum Drift: I lost it there for a while, Nick.
Nick: It’s easy to lose it, Cal. Important thing is to keep trying.
Jack O’Malley: Did we just save Christmas?
Callum Drift: I think we just saved Christmas.