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Elf (2003)

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User Rating: 6.8/10 (29,012 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Jon Favreau
Writer (WGA):
David Berenbaum (written by)
Release Date:
7 November 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family | Fantasy more
Tagline:
This holiday, discover your inner elf.
Plot:
After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
2 wins & 7 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(32 articles)
Ferrell Had That Shrinking Feeling (From WENN. 21 July 2008, 6:34 PM, PDT)
Ferrell Urged To Stop Working With Animals After Bear Tragedy (From WENN. 29 April 2008, 6:58 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
A really nice, funny movie for Christmas despite a little bit of the inevitable smaltz more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for some mild rude humor and language.
Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
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Trivia:
Director Cameo: [Jon Favreau]the doctor. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Jovie is first seen singing in the shower, her body stocking is visible. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Papa Elf: Oh, hello. You're, uh, you're probably here about the story. Elves love to tell stories. I-I'll bet you didn't know that about elves. There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about elves. Another, another interesting, uh, elfism, uh, there are only three jobs available to an elf. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.
Disgruntled Cobbler Elf: Lazy bum! Couldn't even make a clog!
Papa Elf: You can bake cookies in a tree. As you can imagine, it's, uh, dangerous having an oven in an oak tree during the dry season. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every elf aspires to. And that is to build toys in Santa's workshop.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (2004) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Christmas Island more

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32 out of 40 people found the following comment useful:-
A really nice, funny movie for Christmas despite a little bit of the inevitable smaltz, 16 November 2003
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

Accidentally finding his way into Santa's bad once Christmas Eve, little baby orphan Buddy ends up in the north pole, where he is raised by the elves as one of their own. As he gets ever bigger and less and less suited to the elf lifestyle he is told about his real father and decides to go to New York to find him. However Buddy's natural smile and elfish enthusiasm doesn't really fit in with New York, not to mention a father who rejects him.

When I first saw the trailer for this film I laughed slightly but I also thought that it could easily be just awful. Despite this fear I decided to go and see it on the basis of seeing Ferrell in the Reloaded MTV spoof on the DVD and being very funny. I was glad that I did as the film was refreshingly funny very enjoyable despite the weaknesses inherent in a seasonable film of this nature. The jokes are a mix of adult and children - but not separately, the humour is of a nature families can all enjoy rather than being of a `one for me and one for the kids' type.

The film does get a little sweet towards the end, but it manages to avoid this usual trap for the majority of the film and can't be expected to not be all Christmas cheer at some point! The fish out of water stuff is pretty funny and Farrell makes his character funny without being annoying to the audience (as he feared he might be from the trailer). Caan is good but has to work with the `scrooge' character of the film and thus gets fewer laughs. The support cast is good with fun turns from Newhart, Asner and Steenburger.

It does get a little sickly sweet towards the end and the fish out of water jokes do wear a little thin towards the end but mostly it is very funny and refreshingly fun to watch. The film is made better by a performance from Farrell that is perfectly pitched without being annoying and full of spark and wit.

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