Neither mode of play is done well nor are the set of three minigames you can only access from the main menu. The early game is primarily a sequence of platforming levels at the North Pole as well as its unexplained candy forest ice floes and the later portions seem to be Buddy helping Santa bring Christmas to New York primarily through minigames. Digitized stills of the live action movie are flashed on screen without much explanation, many key characters never appear, and why Buddy even wants to go to New York at all isn’t really addressed. It’s not really a plot that seems to lend itself well to a game adaptation, but one was made for the Game Boy Advance anyway, and its video game form is definitely not a Christmas classic.Įlf: The Movie, a very poor name for a video game that could be sold at multimedia stores that feature the actual movie on the shelves as well, doesn’t really portray its holiday plot well. Elf is one of the rare post-2000 movies to be added to the Christmas rotation, a feel-good family movie about a child raised at the North Pole in Santa’s Workshop believing he was an elf searching out his true family in New York and bringing that childhood love of the holiday to cynical people who don’t believe in Santa Claus. Many Christmas classics, both in music and in film, seem to have come from before the 80s, so it’s always a pleasure to see something new slip in and join the ranks, adding some freshness to the media we’ll be seeing every holiday season.
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