When Buddy was born his mother left him in an orphanage and never told his father about his birth. But Buddy is not destined to stay long as an orphan as when Santa visits the orphanage on Christmas Eve, Buddy just a baby sneaks into his bag and is whisked away to the North Pole. Santa who has a soft spot in his heart for babies cannot bear to see Buddy sent back to the orphanage and he finds an Elf who never had any children of his own to raise Buddy as one of his own and as an Elf. Buddy learns to do all the Elf duties and while he doesn’t always fit in, he still loves being and Elf. But thirty years have passed and Buddy has grown to six foot 3 inches tall and doesn’t fit in as well as he once did and its let slipped that he is not truly and Elf. Now Buddy who is confused talks to his adoptive father who reveals all the tales of his past and how he came to be raised by Elves. Now Buddy who years to meet his real father and be with other humans sets off on a journey to find his father who is and evil corporate honcho in New York City. Along the way Buddy will find out all the things he once knew may not pertain to this new world but Buddy is happy in his ignorance and bound to find happiness and a real family in this strange new world.

Sometimes you have to wonder about the timing and release date of a movie, like why this masterpiece of a movie was buried all the way at the first of November. The movie is charming, it is cute, it is funny and most importantly of all it is a Christmas movie and deserves a release more appropriate like December. Has Lord of the Rings so taken over the viewers of December that they cannot accept a Christmas movie in December, I would hope not. Like I said the movie is funny but more so than just that the movie is outright hilarious at times. Yes, the movie carries a lot of the clichés you would expect in a movie dealing with Santa and Elves and goes for that all over warm feeling but that in no way distracts the movie from being one of the funnier comedies released in the last few years. The movie did not have to sink to any lows in taste, the movie did not have to resort to any gross out humor and yet the movie ended up being hilarious. I would hope that Hollywood would take its cue from this movie and realize a movie can be wholesome, charming and still extremely funny at the same time. This is the type of movie you want to take your kids to see so you can also see it. The movie is a refreshing and wonderful tribute to what comedy can be in movies and I am glad I saw it and that it was made.
4 stars out of 5