Buddy - The Christmas Elf

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Movie
German title Buddy - The Christmas Elf
Original title Eleven
Buddyder Christmas Elf-logo.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Jon Favreau
script David Berenbaum
production Jon Berg ,
Todd Komarnicki ,
Shauna Robertson
music John Debney
camera Greg Gardiner
cut Dan Lebental
occupation

Buddy - The Christmas Elf (Original title: Elf ) is an American comedy film directed by Jon Favreau from 2003 .

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At the beginning of the film, Papa Elf explains which three professions the elves are allowed to exercise: making shoes, baking cakes, helping Santa Claus . This begins the story of Buddy, a human who grew up among the elves at the North Pole.

A baby is mistakenly taken to the North Pole by Santa Claus when he returns there after Christmas. It is taken in by the elves who work for Santa Claus and grows up under the care of the childless Papa Elf, who gives the child the name Buddy , as this name is on his diaper. The adult Buddy is much bigger than any other elf, and at work it quickly becomes clear that Buddy doesn't quite belong to them. Papa Elf Buddy reveals that he has been adopted and that his real father lives in New York.

Buddy then decides to leave for the unknown city, where he quickly finds his birth father. It is Walter Hobbes, a rather heartless and unscrupulous publisher of children's books, who first mistakes Buddy for a singing telegram in costume and then for a madman and has him thrown out of his office.

For now, Buddy slips into a department store, in whose Christmas decorations he feels almost as at home as at the North Pole. He falls in love with Jovie, who works there as a costumed Christmas elf. However, Buddy immediately exposes Santa Claus, who is employed by the department store, as a fraud. Buddy unleashes a tumult in the department store and ends up in jail. From there, however, Walter frees him, who reluctantly accepts the paternity established by a DNA test and lets Buddy live with him.

So Buddy comes to a friendly, but slightly irritated stepmother and a little suspicious half-brother. But until they become a real family and Buddy and Jovie become a couple, buddy's fairytale-naive North Pole world and the all-too human New York City often and violently collide.

But by joining forces, they can finally help the real Santa Claus out of a tight spot when his sledge breaks down in the middle of New York due to lack of fuel: Only the exuberant and widespread joy of Christmas will make him fly again.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelView that some people would refer to the film as a future "classic". Berardinelli scoffed that these people should have seen a different cut of the film than he did.

"Gaudy Christmas entertainment with a few great gags and a hair-raising, holey story that makes little sense and hardly any fun."

- Lexicon of international film

"Irresistibly silly slapstick kitsch."

- TV movie

Awards

The film was nominated for the Kids' Choice Award . Will Ferrell was also nominated for the MTV Movie Award . Will Ferrell and the film were also nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2004.

John Debney won the 2004 Film & Television Music Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers . The film was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award in 2005.

background

The film was shot in New York City and Vancouver . Its production amounted to an estimated 33 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 173.4 million in US cinemas and approximately $ 220.4 million worldwide.

In 2014 an art reboot was released with the title Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas . Unlike the original, the film doesn't play with real actors but relies on stop-motion . However, it is only a short film. We dub Buddy in the film by Jim Parsons who is known from the series Big Bang Theory , among others . There he plays Sheldon Cooper.

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  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for Buddy - The Christmas Elf . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, December 2003 (PDF; test number: 95 947 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Buddy - The Christmas Elf . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  4. ↑ Buddy - The Christmas Elf. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Review on tvspielfilm.de
  6. ↑ Filming locations for Elf
  7. ↑ Business Data for Eleven

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