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Elf
This holiday, discover your inner elf.
This holiday, discover your inner elf.
Comedy, Family, Fantasy - 2003
7.0
85%
64
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
Director:
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(2011)
For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million childre...

Details

Rated:
PG
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
7 Nov 2003
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$32,000,000
Revenue:
$228,500,000
Awards:
2 wins & 7 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Ferrell is a hoot. So is much of this witty holiday family entertainment, which, up until the end, when the "true spirit of Christmas" must be reaffirmed, happily favors slapstick over treacle.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
14 Dec 2014
fresh:
Sure, Elf feels a little too feel-good at the end, but what do you expect? It's a Christmas movie! Anything else would be the cinematic equivalent of finding coal in your stocking.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
4 Dec 2013
rotten:
The cast wrings laughs out of David Berenbaum's script as if it were a damp washcloth, but even they have trouble selling frenetic button-pushing as the Christmas spirit.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
4 Dec 2013
fresh:
A disarmingly funny holiday comedy.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep 2011
rotten:
The film soon bogs down in fake hugs and a fakier climax involving Santa (Ed Asner) and his downed sled.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
27 Nov 2007
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