Reviewers Zanna Gillespie and Greg Bruce select the greatest Christmas movies of all time. HE SAW Rotten Tomatoes inexplicably describes it as “a minor.
Beloved holiday movie classic Elf brought back cast members Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, Ed Asner, Bob Newhart, Andy Richter, Amy Sedaris and Mary Steenburgen for a reunion - a Democratic fundraiser on Sunday night.
John Lithgow, Wanda Sykes, Ed Helms and other stars joined, playing various roles during a live Elf virtual script table-read. By the end, the reunion surpassed its goal of raising more than $400,000 for the Democratic Party of Georgia.
The event was a lively, virtual reunion that was capped off with a group version of Jingle Bells.
However, the famed ending for the 2003 comedy, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, featured Deschanel s Jovie starting a rousing version of Santa Claus Is Comin To Town as Buddy the Elf (Ferrell) arrives with Santa Claus (Asner) on his sleigh before a suddenly-believing crowd of New Yorkers.