Absolutely Terrible

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2015)

I loved "The Santa Clause" trilogy & bought this movie thinking it would be similar. It was NOT.
Some of the worst scriptwriting & dialogue ever. Almost perverse in the way this supersized man wanted to hug, snuggle & play tickle games with every grown man he encountered. Will Ferrell was a real turn off in this movie. I would not want a child to see this movie.
It is one thing that a human was raised by elves & was out of his element in the human world, but this human has the maturity level & IQ of a Turnip. He is an oversized, overgrown adult human behaving like a 5 year old who is rude, obnoxious, destructive and goes out of his way to insult & embarrass the other cast members. Let us also not forget he is running around in leotards and a short jacket. Quite disturbing.
Even if he was elf sized, he would not be sitting in the adopted elf father's lap as a full grown adult. This depicts him as mentally unstable with an IQ of 50 & the mentality of a kindergartener in the body of a 40 year old man.
He is rude, disruptive, does not follow instructions, attacks & insults people and destroys his fathers home to the point where he could not be left home alone. Frankly, any normal person would have had him committed to the asylum. He clearly had no business being out in public without someone to accompany him. It also made no sense that the elves would have allowed him to go alone to the human world with no traveling companion to chaperone him.
This movie is offensive. Not funny. A terrible script & I hope to never see Ferrell again.
If the script had cast the elf as a mature, intelligent 15 year old boy who was escorted by another elf to meet his human father, the story might have worked with a lot of behavior editing. This mentally deficient intellectually challenged, overgrown 40 year old in tights doing stupid things like eating cotton balls at the doctors office & pouring syrup on spaghetti & sending his father a negligee simply were not funny. These Jim Carey slapstick & 3 stooges style script was not amusing.
Additionally, it is one thing for the human raised by elves to be disoriented with customs & surroundings; and quite another to behave like a loudmouth child with bad manners & mentally defective. It was like watching Lily Tomlin's "Edith Ann" character. Ferrell also made it worse by grossly overacting his childish behavior.
This 6' 2" forty year old human elf literally sat in his tiny adopted elf fathers lap, crushing him (this was a visual effect. I am referring to the visual concept of him sitting in the elf dad's lap at his age & size). Whether he was human or elf, he should have behaved his age instead of a Jim Carey version of Lily Tomlin's "Edith Ann".
It was sickening. Clearly, the producers hired bloggers to artificially pump up their reviews.