2003 · holiday · fish-out-of-water · will-ferrell
Elf
Directed by Jon Favreau1h 37m2003
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.
Our read: Elf (2003) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive holiday · fish-out-of-water · will-ferrell entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle holiday / fish-out-of-water, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
Watching Elf tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Elf feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want pure holiday silliness with earnest heart and sugar-rush energy.”
Skip it tonight — Will Ferrell man-child antics will grate before the first coffee scene.
Eight films that feel like this one.
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