Elf Watching Blog

Rewatched with my partner ♥️

Watched: December 12, 2021

Platform: HBO Max

Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes

Rotten Tomato 🍅 Rating: 85% 🍅

Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Always a good holiday movie 🍿

Book to movie/show 🍿 : N

Enjoyment 🤗: 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

• Funier than I remember 😂 like I was watching it for the 1st time 😍
• Zoey Deschanel sings 🎶
• Mood booster 👍🏽

Heat 🔥: 🔥🔥

Rewatchable?: Y

Content warnings: Adoption, Orphan

The set-up: Buddy, as an infant, sneaks into Santa’s gift 🎁 bag 😱, is taken to the North Pole, and is raised among the elves. When he’s 30, Papa Elf admits his family background. He goes to New York City to mert his biological father.

Key 🔑 Players:

• Buddt – protagonist, elf, orphan, Santa’s giftbag stowaway, raised by elves
• Walter Hobbs – Buddy’s biological dad
• Papa – Buddy’s adoptive dad, elf
• Jocie – Buddy’s love interest and co-worker
• Emily – Walter Hobbs’s wife
• Micheal – Walter Hobbs’s son, Buddy’s brother
• Debra – Walter Hobbs’s secretary

Important Places 🌎:

• New York 🌃
• North Pole

3-word Summary: Santa needs help 🤗

Thoughts 💭:

• Belonging