2008 Woodie Awards
All Warm and Fuzzy inside
Nicoletta Carlone
Issue date: 10/17/03 Section: A&E
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Comedy. Directed by Jon Favreau (Rated PG, 1 hr. 35 minutes)
You can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy inside about "Elf". This classic fish-out-of-water story stars former SNL member Will Farrell as Buddy The Elf who in actually is not a real elf at all.
Buddy was brought to the North Pole as an orphaned infant after stowing away in Santa's sack. He is adopted by one of the elves, (Bob Newhart). As Buddy grows up, he realizes that he is different from the others. It's not just that he is terrible at making toys, he is also over six feet tall.
Buddy is a very merry elf who spends most of the movie in an ensemble of yellow tights, a green velvet jacket, elf hat complete with pointed elf shoes. He decides it is time for him to make his way out into the world and find his real father. He says good by to his animated polar friends and floats away through the Arctic waters on a tiny ice slab. On foot, he makes the long journey from his snow-kissed, sugar-plum world "through the candy cane forest, past a sea of swirly, twirly gum-drops and a short walk through the Lincoln Tunnel" to the mean streets of Manhattan were there is a serious lack of Christmas spirit.
Buddy ends up at the Empire State Building, where his father is employed as a grumpy, Ebenezer Scrooge-like publisher of children's books. The worst news for Buddy is: His father is on Santa's naughty list.
Buddy is determined to bring Christmas spirit to his father's dysfunctional family as well as the rest of New York City. He frequently leaves Christmas cheer as well as a big mess in his wake. He is employed for a day at Gimbel's department store.
There he manages to frighten the manager, assault the store's Santa, as well as bring Christmas cheer to a pretty young store employee without any Christmas spirit (Zooey Deschanel). He also impresses everyone by staying at the store over night, decorating the entire place in cut-out snowflakes, polyester pillow fluff and Christmas lights.
You can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy inside about "Elf". This classic fish-out-of-water story stars former SNL member Will Farrell as Buddy The Elf who in actually is not a real elf at all.
Buddy was brought to the North Pole as an orphaned infant after stowing away in Santa's sack. He is adopted by one of the elves, (Bob Newhart). As Buddy grows up, he realizes that he is different from the others. It's not just that he is terrible at making toys, he is also over six feet tall.
Buddy is a very merry elf who spends most of the movie in an ensemble of yellow tights, a green velvet jacket, elf hat complete with pointed elf shoes. He decides it is time for him to make his way out into the world and find his real father. He says good by to his animated polar friends and floats away through the Arctic waters on a tiny ice slab. On foot, he makes the long journey from his snow-kissed, sugar-plum world "through the candy cane forest, past a sea of swirly, twirly gum-drops and a short walk through the Lincoln Tunnel" to the mean streets of Manhattan were there is a serious lack of Christmas spirit.
Buddy ends up at the Empire State Building, where his father is employed as a grumpy, Ebenezer Scrooge-like publisher of children's books. The worst news for Buddy is: His father is on Santa's naughty list.
Buddy is determined to bring Christmas spirit to his father's dysfunctional family as well as the rest of New York City. He frequently leaves Christmas cheer as well as a big mess in his wake. He is employed for a day at Gimbel's department store.
There he manages to frighten the manager, assault the store's Santa, as well as bring Christmas cheer to a pretty young store employee without any Christmas spirit (Zooey Deschanel). He also impresses everyone by staying at the store over night, decorating the entire place in cut-out snowflakes, polyester pillow fluff and Christmas lights.