This cynical cash in animation short basically retells the story of Elf, the Will Ferrell film without any of the charm and many of the cast from the original film.
Ed Asner does reprise his role to voice Santa who tells the grown up Buddy who thinks he is an Elf in the North Pole that he is actually human who stowed away in Santa's bag as a baby.
His real dad is Walter Hobbs living in New York who has been on the naughty list for years.
Buddy travels to see his father who works at a publishing company with a horrid boss. Walter is taken aback at first to see this grown up infant but Buddy's relentless cheer transforms him and when Santa comes to deliver presents the curmudgeonly Walter gets the festive fever.
Because this is labelled as a musical we have to put up with some mind numbingly dull songs. Even the animation is not much to shout home about.
It would be just be better to put the Ferrell film on.
Ed Asner does reprise his role to voice Santa who tells the grown up Buddy who thinks he is an Elf in the North Pole that he is actually human who stowed away in Santa's bag as a baby.
His real dad is Walter Hobbs living in New York who has been on the naughty list for years.
Buddy travels to see his father who works at a publishing company with a horrid boss. Walter is taken aback at first to see this grown up infant but Buddy's relentless cheer transforms him and when Santa comes to deliver presents the curmudgeonly Walter gets the festive fever.
Because this is labelled as a musical we have to put up with some mind numbingly dull songs. Even the animation is not much to shout home about.
It would be just be better to put the Ferrell film on.