Elf (Jon Favreau 2003)

and so anyway it turns out that the best thing about Elf (2003) is not the fleeting homage to the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage, nor the proposed children’s book about a group of young asparagus who are anxious and self-conscious about the smell of their urine, but the fact that the look on the face of Zooey Deschanel every time Will Ferrell does something ‘funny’ is exactly the same look you get on your face when, during her subsequent career, Zooey Deschanel does something ‘kooky’…