An enjoyable comedy.

Rating: 7/10 (12 September 2009)

Will Ferrel stars in the film Elf. Which isn't his best film but is a lot of fun. Ferrell is actually quite convincing as a human who crawled into Santa's bag during a toy delivery when he was a baby. Buddy(Will Ferrell) has been living in the North Pole for many years and every one of the elves starts to suspect something. Buddy soon realizes that he is a human, and begins the search for his father. His father is living in New York, with a new family. When Buddy sees his father(James Caan) for the first time, he boots him out of the house. Or out of the Empire state building. So Buddy tries to get acceptance from his father and his family and succeeds with his everyone else but his father. Buddy wreaks havoc and falls in love with a department store Elf(the great Zooey Deschanel).
Elf is a fun Christmas movie. I don't think it is as good as Ron Howard's Grinch movie or bob Clark's A Christmas story, but the film works. Will Ferrell is pretty convincing and the film will get you in the Christmas spirit. The performances are good and it's a cute film. Jon Faverau somehow always tries to bring silliness of some sort into his movies. He does a good job here. I give Elf a big thumbs up.
Elf: ***/****