Elf — Review

Elf (2003) — audience rated.

This 2003 Will Ferrell comedy, Elf – directed by Jon Favreau. Ferrell plays Buddy – a regular boy is accidentally raised at the North Pole as an Elf. When he realizes he’s not like the other elves around him, Buddy visits New York to find his biological father, played by James Caan. Pumpkinwife has this review, “Will Ferrell has made a career of playing an obnoxious brat in a grown man’s body, so it is an amazingly delightful surprise to find that the child inhabiting his six foot tall elf to be a charming, wide-eyed innocent kid who is welcomed back into the family by his dad’s wife and son, but it is the relationship between father and elf that allows us again to see the true spirit of Christmas.