Elf [DVD]

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On Christmas Eve, an orphaned baby crawls into Santa Claus's sack at the sight of a teddy bear, and is unwittingly taken back to the North Pole from an orphanage. After Buddy takes them to meet Santa, Michael takes Santa's list and reads it out in front of television news cameras, proving that Santa is real. On September 18, 2013, Mental Floss reported that Favreau was interested in making a sequel to the film, titled Elf 2: Buddy Saves Christmas.

Having sold 695,000 copies in the United States, it is the second-highest selling soundtrack album for a Christmas-themed film since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991, behind only The Polar Express. The movie succeeds because it at once restrains its sticky, gooey good cheer and wildly overdoes it. When Buddy starts singing in the middle of Santaland at Gimbels, the lyrics were not scripted, and Will Ferrell improvised the song on the spot. This allowed him to conceive of a movie that could be PG rated as opposed to the original script, which he guessed would have been rated PG-13. Artie Lange as the Fake Santa, a Mall Santa with whom Buddy gets into an altercation because he is not the real Santa Claus.Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit. It stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York City to meet his biological father. Several minor traffic accidents occurred when Will Ferrell walked through the Lincoln Tunnel in his costume, because people were so surprised (and distracted from their driving) to see him wearing an elf outfit.

However, discovering that the Gimbels Santa is not the genuine article, Buddy unmasks him and causes a brawl that the manager breaks up. Will Ferrell as Buddy Hobbs, aka "Buddy the Elf", an eccentric human who was raised by Santa's elves. If it’s your first time watching, you’re seriously in for a treat, especially when you consider the stacked cast. Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum.Will Ferrell said in interviews that he suffered ill effects after eating too much sugar for the film. The film inspired the 2010 Broadway musical Elf: The Musical and NBC's 2014 stop motion animated television special Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas. If you're wondering where you can watch Elf right now, we've got you covered with an up-to-date guide for 2023 below.

Filming took place in New York City, as well as in Vancouver and at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia. As Walter prepares to pitch the book to Greenway, Michael arrives and informs Walter of Buddy's departure. Buddy's strange behavior unnerves Walter and Michael, but Emily insists that they take care of him until he "recovers. But almost as a tribute to the X-Mas miracles it tries to riff off, it is an astonishingly entertaining film. Michael warms up to Buddy after they defeat a gang of bullies in a snowball fight and encourages him to ask Jovie out on a date.It’s a classic fish-out-of-water story and over the years it has been championed as one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time. According to Favreau, the script was initially "much darker" and did not interest him, although he was interested in working with Ferrell's first post- SNL movie. Jovie leads the crowd and those watching on television in singing " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," raising enough Christmas spirit to fully power the sleigh without the engine.

a b "Maurice LaMarche interview on Talk Radio Meltdown - Explanation of Buddy the Elf's belch at 21:52".The musical officially opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on November 10, 2010, after previews from November 2, 2010. Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas is an hour-long stop-motion animated musical television special based on the film and the musical of the same name.