Although fun to look at, Krispy Kreme’s three new donuts, inspired by the 20th anniversary of the beloved holiday comedy “Elf” would disappoint even a cotton-headed ninny muggin’ with their unimaginative flavor profiles.

Fans of the movie or donut addicts can unite to try the three new donuts: Buddy Snow Globe, Buddy Makes Breakfast and Christmas Lights.

First on the list and the best flavor is the Buddy Snow Globe, an original glazed donut dipped in sugar cookie-flavored light blue icing and covered in white sprinkles and powdery sugar that mirrors falling snow.

A chocolate “Elf” piece sits in the center, but it looks like an ordinary elf since its face is completely green; it also tastes like absolutely nothing.

However, the sugar cookie icing genuinely tastes like its title, and it works impressively well with the iconic flavor of Krispy Kreme’s glazed donuts, arguably some of the best in donut land.

The sprinkles add a hint of needed texture, but not too much since they’re thankfully only present on half the donut.

What the other two donuts lack in taste, they make up for in their festive appearance.

Although, the most intricately designed donut, Buddy Makes Breakfast, missed several opportunities to be even wackier. 

It’s an original glazed donut iced with cake batter spaghetti buttercream and covered in colorful milk chocolate candies, sprinkles and maple drizzle.

For one, the cake batter buttercream tastes like a generic, overly sweet, yet weirdly underwhelming icing from the store. The maple drizzle takes the cake, but there isn’t enough of it to overshadow the buttercream’s nauseating flavor. 

After all, maple syrup is the key component in Buddy’s breakfast spaghetti, so the donut would stand out more if it centered around this.

The donut may have rainbow chocolate candies, but it’s missing the mini marshmallows and chocolate syrup used in the movie, making it too tame to be inspired by Buddy’s spaghetti breakfast. 

It would feel more true to the movie with maple syrup buttercream instead of cake batter and chocolate drizzle instead of the underused maple one. 

Despite what’s missing, the donut chain deserves major props for attempting to bring to life one of the most inedible desserts in movie history. 

The final donut is Christmas Lights, an original glazed donut with rich chocolate icing and a trickle of green icing that’s topped with rainbow sprinkles to mimic sparkling Christmas lights.

Just like the Buddy Snow Globe donut, there’s a chocolate piece in the middle. This time, it’s a circle that quotes Buddy from the movie, “Santa! I know him!” 

Despite its clever facade, the Christmas Lights treat tastes like an average chocolate sprinkle donut: delicious, if not a little sickening, but totally worth the tummy ache. 

There’s also the question of what Christmas lights really have to do with the movie “Elf.”

It seems like Krispy Kreme just wanted to use the chocolate glazed donut as a canvas but forgot it was supposed to be inspired by the movie.

The “Elf” collection also includes the return of the Santa Belly donut, a regular donut iced with red and filled with cookies and cream filling.

The filling is the most edible portion of this donut. Do not attempt to eat the yellow belt buckle candy piece. Yes, it’s technically edible, but that’s debatable. 

Maybe it was hard to make donuts when the source material’s main character says the four main food groups are candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup, but Krispy Kreme had every reason to go all out in terms of flavor, and they didn’t.