Xuxa e os Duendes (English: Xuxa and the Elves) is a 2001 Brazilian fantasy musical adventure children's film directed by Paulo Sérgio de Almeida, Rogério Gomes and Márcio Vito with a screenplay by Vivian Perl and Wagner de Assis.

It contains in his cast Xuxa Meneghel, Guilherme Karan, Debby Lagranha, Leonardo Cordonis, Gugu Liberato, Ana Maria Braga, Emiliano Queiroz, Angélica, Wanessa Camargo.

The film was watched by approximately 2,657,091 box office according to Ancine,[4] and earned more than 11 million Brazilian reals for its producers.

Writing "Duendes" is a change, has cliches in tons, but for Xuxa, who did everything a little on the screens, this is no problem and that the film was produced just to please its audience, in this case a multitude of children.

Kira, unknowingly, is the Duende of Light, daughter of Mika (Emiliano Queiroz) and Zinga (Ana Maria Braga), the kings of the elves.

His brother, Damiz (Leonardo Cordonis), the Friendship Goblin, was kidnapped by a Gorgon (Guilherme Karan), the greatest enemy of the race, being trapped on the wall of Nanda's (Debby Lagranha) bedroom, a 10-year-old girl, Kira's friend.

Rico (Gugu Liberato) is a businessman manipulated by Gorgon, the Goblin of Envy, who has been expelled from the world of elementals as a traitor, and now lives in the form of a human being.

Rico only thinks about destroying nature and money, due to the negative energy of Gorgon, who forces him to buy the house of Jessica and Otavio, parents of Nanda, and demolish it.

She told friends that the apparitions only ceased when one of the elves (female, according to Xuxa) cried beside her bed and she received the hint that she should feed them.

[15] Since the film did not fit the musical attractions, the idea was to bring personalities (the vast majority of them non-actors) to the main roles.

Gugu spoke in his Tititi magazine column, which had received the invitation a few days before and in less than 24 hours was reading the script, quickly accepting the proposal.

[28] The role was eventually interpreted by Guilherme Karan, reissuing the battle of good against the evil of Super Xuxa Contra Baixo Astral (1988).

[29][30] The other cast names, such as Leonardo Cordonis (Damiz),[31] Queen Zinga (Ana Maria Braga)[29][32] Fada Morgana (Luciana Gimenez).

At the time, George Lucas was using the same for the filming of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, which was to be released in 2002.

[37] Marcelo Siqueira, of Teleimage, responsible for the special effects, specifies that the feature film was the first in Latin America.

Due to the lack of knowledge of Brazilian technicians with the new technology, the production of the film brought the American Rafael Aladame, engineering director of Panavision, to make sure that the cameras were being used in the correct way.

Presenters Luciano Huck, Gugu Liberato and Angelica, singer Wanessa Camargo and actors Guilherme Karan and David Brazil attended the production for the first time together with the guests and the press.

Before beginning the session, actors, children and adults, dressed as goblins, made a brief staging on the theme of the film.

With Duendes, the directors (Xuxa Producciones, Diler & Associados, Warner and Globo Filmes) and exhibitors (such as the UCI and Cinemark) gave up their profits, making 100% of the box office go to 20 charities, among they are: Association of Support to the Child against Cancer (São Paulo), Rio Cardiológica Infantil (Rio de Janeiro), Association Movimento Avante Lençóis (Bahia), Project Previdência (Minas Gerais), Assistance Association for the Deprived Child (Rio Grande do Sul), Child Support Group with Cancer (Sergipe) and Casa Sonhos de Criança (Maranhão).

[42][43] This action ended up bringing more than 30,000 people to theaters on December 13, 2001, raising R$120,000, an amount that was shared equally among all institutions.

Marcelo Forlani of the Omelette site praised the end of excess merchandising, but criticized the film's script for being "fickle, with performances weaker than the Playboy jokes," an extremely screenplay infantilized and incoherent dialogues.

"[49] João Flávio Martinez from the Diário da Região website, wrote "that "Duendes" for a change, has clichés in tons, from the first to the last frame.

[43] Juliana Lima of the Cine Trash website also criticized "Xuxa e os Duendes", "In addition to the predictable storyline, the film features such a character characterization that it is comical, but it might be naïve to think that Luciano Huck, Gugu Liberato and Ana Maria Braga - both TV presenters - would do a good job as actors.While considering the non-Hollywood timeline and budget of the film, we can not ignore the bad special effects.

Highlight the scene in which Kira speaks looking directly at the camera, at the audience, and asks them to clap their hands if they believe in magic, in a frustrated attempt to imitate Peter Pan.

[53][54] That means he made more box office than films like Shrek, Castaway, The Mummy Returns and Jurassic Park 3 in Brazil.

Released in 300 rooms, on December 14, 2001, the film was viewed by 2,657,091 spectators, automatically becoming the record holder of the "return" of National Cinema.

The script has no problem copying Peter Pan (the famous scene with Tinker Bell) and others (the grandmother telling the story to the grandson).