how Buddy finds his father (James Caan) and the meaning of Christmas is a joyous, jaunty, sweet-as-a-candy-cane gift for everyone who loves bright contemporary comedy – and timeless all-family classics. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Through the power of love and forgiveness, both of them learn the most important lesson of all: true belief cannot be taught. Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a human being who has spent his whole life believing himself to be an elf.

His quest to find his real father leads him to New York City, a far harsher world than the sweetly hyperactive and rather dim-witted Buddy is prepared to face. So one special December, Buddy sets off on a holiday adventure to New York City in quest of his real dad. The movie's primary charm lies in the performance of Ferrell, garbed in bright green and filled with an optimistic outlook that infects everyone around him.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Elf stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, who grew up in an elf world and one day sets out to find the father he never knew. This hilarious Christmas film tells the tale of a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts on Christmas Eve and is transported back to the North Pole and raised as an elf. Thankfully, The Elf on the Shelf Scout Elves, a slew of Saint Bernard pups and a big-hearted family join forces to change their community for the better and ensure Santa's yuletide mission always succeeds!

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Don't get me wrong though, it is jam-packed with typical holiday cheer and almost sickeningly happy clichés of Christmas but its mix of slapstick and cheeky wit made me "lol" more than a few times. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.Will Ferrell plays a very different kind of character than we would usually expect and this role will definitely help to win over some of his detractors. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. He is perfectly charming and his innocence in the fish-out-of-water story gets many laughs throughout without overdoing it.

Raised by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart), Buddy (Will Ferrell) comes to realise he doesn't fit in with the other elves. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy. We will publish your review of Elf [2003] on DVD within a few days as long as it meets our guidelines. Follow Santa's not-so-little helper as he tries to navigate the real world and get to grips with 'human culture' while bringing his dad a much needed (if unwanted!You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Join Chippey as he embarks on a mission to help a young boy discover the magic of belief at Christmastime.

Despite the multitude of familiar elements, the film contains enough seasonal charm to override any minor qualms. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Once upon a Christmas Eve, an orphan baby crawled into Santa's bag of gifts and was taken to the North Pole.