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Comedy, Family, Fantasy 97 min PG
Rotten Tomatoes85%Metacritic66IMDb
Discover your inner elf.
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
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Effortless, resolved, warm and comic.
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Will Ferrell, admired for his television impersonation of George W. Bush, plays Buddy the Elf, who is not really an elf, but an overgrown human child raised by elves. Buddy, who towers over the other residents of the North Pole (thanks to some ingeniously designed sets and clever camera angles), is lovable but inept;…
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