Sam-Who-Likes-Nothing - Elf
Why is it so many American holiday and children’s movies have endings that reek of false sentimentality? I have nothing against sentimentality - I weep at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life and A Charlie Brown Christmas. But those are movies where most of the people involved actually believed in the sentiment they created. The people who made Elf and the Jim Carrey version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas don’t.
And it shows.
I thought the first half was hilarious. I love crazy Will Ferrell. But then they had to have the message, and reform the scrooge figure, and it was all just going through the motions without any of the spontaneous sweetness of the beginning. It was false, and it was dull, and it showed.
Bah, humbug.
