Elf

Watch it every year and it never disappoints!

Great movie for the whole family!

Don’t like W. F. But fills out Christmas video requirements

There is something brilliant about seeing a giant man in a bright green elf costume, acting like an absolute child, in the middle of the hard streets of NYC. This movie has a lot of love crafted into it. You can tell just from the beginning, with the stop-motion animations a clear call-back to the classic Christmas animations of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, etc.. The dedication to using old-school forced perspective to make the elves smaller than the humans, rather than resorting to CGI that would look dated in 5 years. The use of a dull background and bright costumes made the Workshop pop and have surreal story-book feeling to it, very clever. You can feel the heart and effort those who made the movie put into this, so much so that even at the climax with the usual cheesy power of Christmas, that instead of rolling the eyes, you get kind of swept up in it, and bam, youre a child again that still believes in Santa and magic and a world of wonder and joy. There are a lot of Christmas movies out there, but this one is unique in being light but also heavy. It has some heavy meaty stuff that hooks you in, but it is light enough that you are not intimidated to dip your toes into the movie for a re-watch every Christmas. The only case I wouldnt recommend this is if you really, really dislike the star of the movie. Cause he is front and center and carries it. He went ham on channeling his inner child and sells it. Man is brave, especially when the film crew let him loose in NYC interacting with normal non-actors. Man coulda gotten punched in the face, just sayin. But some people just dont like certain actors, which I can respect, so if Will isnt your cup of tea, dont feel obligated to watch.

We can never find this on TV at Christmas aslnd its my daughters favorite movie so Im happy we can watch it any time we like.

We loved this movie!!

If you havnt seen it you should

Such a cute movie. Will Farrell is funny as always, if you like his brand of humor. Great movie for the whole family to watch around Christmas, or anytime.

This is one of my go-to holiday movies.

It’s already a classic