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...First Elf, now a kids' monster movie. Has fatherhood made you soft? I've been exposed to a lot of family entertainment. When you watch so much of a genre, you get inspired. I don't think standards are as high for family movies, which is nice as a filmmaker 'cause you can take more chances. So little is expected of you, the studios tend to leave you alone...
...13th century woodcutter who died and went to the North Pole, where he was greeted as the Chosen One and given a couple hundred elves as his assistants. Stars shine in the north; a UNESCO chorale ladles Bosco over Henry Mancini's syrupy score; Dudley Moore, the chief elf, actually says, "If you give extra kisses, you get bigger hugs." The movie plays like a W.C. Fields nightmare: to drown in a vat of whimsy...
...script (by David Newman, who knows better) goes heavy on "elf" puns; the direction (by Jeannot Szwarc, who doesn't) is in a style that could be called International Mystical. Moore does an excruciatingly ingratiating Shirley Temple impression; as Santa, David Huddleston (Bad Company) says ho ho ho a lot, apparently at knife point; stalwart John Lithgow is amusing as a Nixon-like baron of the toy industry who figures to capitalize on gift giving by establishing a new holiday on March 25: Christmas II. There is little likelihood of a Santa Claus II, forcing the Salkinds to turn...
There has always been some difficulty with the name. An r frequently slides between the last two letters, especially in conversation, the extra letter making him seem like some merry, mischievous, vaguely magical creature out of Tolkien: Geldorf, the elf with the spiritual mission...
...DIED. ALFRED SIRVEN, 77, former senior executive of French oil company Elf-Aquitaine, jailed for his role in France's biggest-ever corporate-graft scandal; in Deauville, France. Sirven and his boss, Loik Le Floch Prigent, were convicted in November 2003 of siphoning large sums?Sirven alone allegedly amassed over $222 million?from the then state-owned Elf-Aquitaine between 1989 and 1993 to buy political favors and fund luxurious lifestyles. Sirven received five years in jail in 2001 and was released last May on probation...