Elf (DVD) Review This Christmas, discover your inner elf ... At least that's the slogan of Elf, one of the funniest movies of 2003. Packed with a cast of Hollywood talent to star, Elf is guaranteed to make you laugh. The touching story of an adopted elf who discovers he is really a boy is like a Bizzaro-Pinocchio story that opened to such widespread critical acclaim that it unanimously swept zero at the Oscars Academy Awards 2004! Nevertheless, Elf is worth the price of admission. Although Christmas Vacation still holds the title of the top Christmas comedy, Elf is still a good night of entertainment ...
Buddy (Will Ferrell) is an oversized elf working away from the North Pole. Always wearing a smile, he dwarfs his comrades and never seems able to find its place in the arena of manufacturing toys. Eventually, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) is forced to reveal the truth to Buddy. It is actually a human being. It is not really an elf at all. The elves love buddy just the same, but Buddy feels the need to stand on its own and try to find - and maybe even his family too ...
Scouring the streets of New York City, Buddy must learn the rules of urban life. In due course, he manages to find his biological father, an editor named Walter success (James Caan). But despite the insistence of his wife (Mary Steenburgen) Emily, Walter is reluctant to start a relationship with the child too impatient adult ...
In the meantime, Buddy spends his days working at Gimbel's store, which he played a store Santa's elf and a Christmas decorator, creating a fairy-tale dream, customers and employees. Cancellation of a relationship with a colleague Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), Buddy's life is slowly transition from Elf to man ... But it will not be able to survive in the big city? Will he be able to rekindle a relationship with her father? Elf excellent care of while we know ...
With a team of men of letters, Elf manages to keep the laughter throughout the film. Although lacking in some areas (this is not one of the greatest comedies of all time), Elf is a hilarious movie in its own right. Will Ferrell turns in an amazing performance as Buddy. Like Tom Hanks in Big, it is indeed likely that the innocent man-child roaming the streets of New York. It is this innocent prank that provides Elf with the charm necessary to keep the public involved in the story beginning to end. Because of its laugh factor, and surprisingly few decent work Christmas-themed movies, Elf is a clear must-see film ... Check it out this Christmas!
Posted on June 10, 2010.