Elf (DVD)

Director: Jon Favreau (Zathura) Starring: Will Ferrell (Old School, Anchorman) James Caan (The Godfather, Misery) Zoeey Deschanel (Failure to Launch, Hitchhikers Guide) Production Year: 2003 Running Time: 97 minutes Certificate: PG Plot: Buddy the Elf isn't like the other Elves - He is 6 feet tall, and is distinctly lacking in the toy making skills of all the others. So one day he is told by his father than he is in fact a human, who crawled into Santa's sack and ended up staying at the North Pole being raised by the elves. Buddy also learns that his real mother had died and ...  Read the complete review

* IT'S CHRIISSTMAASSSS With the holiday season just past us, there is one movie that sticks out in my mind, and whilst I feel Ch4 showed it a little too soon before the actual 'big day' meaning I nearly choked on christmas spirit, the majority of the film was enjoyable on an all year round basis. I've just grown up to a be a scrooge who hurls at the sight of Santa even a week before the 25th December. Of course the movie I am talking about is Elf, because otherwise this review would be in the wrong place. Whilst when it comes to Will Ferrell you have to either love him or hate him, he was a strong factor in attracting me to this movie for interest in how he would ...  Read the complete review

I recently wrote a review on a film called Bad Santa and someone commented that they though Elf was better. So in Hmv I happened to stumble across it and the fact that someone mentioned it pinged into my head and I thought hmmm I'm gonna try watching this! So who thinks reviewing don't work eh!?! lol The Plot.... Buddy is a baby who is in an orphanage when Santa pops by to deliver the presents. Buddy being a baby spots toys in a sack and unable to resist a nosey climbs in ending up in the Elf's workshop where no 'human' has been before! A guy who later becomes 'Papa Elf' takes on the wee baby having missed out on being a dad and ...  Read the complete review

Buddy the Elf (Will Ferrell - Talledega Nights, Anchorman) grows up in the North Pole after crawling into Santa's sack as a baby when Santa delivers presents to his orphanage. When Santa gets back to the North Pole, Buddy is discovered and Santa, being a sucker for babies, allows the elves to keep him. Buddy is raised by Papa Elf and despite being quite obviously not an elf, manages to be blind to this fact until one fateful day, behind on his quota of etch-a-sketches he overhears the other elves talking. Papa Elf explains to Buddy that his real mother died, and his father Walter (James Caan - Las Vegas) never knew he existed. Buddy decides to ...  Read the complete review

Whatever you may think about Will Ferrell, Elf is a quite brilliant seasonal movie and should be on every Christmas Day like the Wizard of Oz used to be. I know its not 'It's a Wonderful Life', a film that very topical this year, considering James Stewarts bank runs out of money , but do we really need reminded of that fact this Christmas? Yes, Ferrell's blank faced delivery and cumbersome slapstick can be annoying in a Jim Carrey sort of way sometimes (Carrey, not surprisingly, original the first choice for the role) but his comic timing is superb and the absolute master of the funny absent faced pause. As Ferrell is not the best looking guy and rather gauche ...  Read the complete review