Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas on Tuesday, December 16th on NBC

Chances are if you celebrate the Christmas holiday, or even if you don’t, you have seen the popular holiday film Elf staring Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Ed Asner and Mary Steenburgen.

Elf came out in 2003. Only in the past few years has the film become so popular.

My family is a fan of the film. We have been since the first time we saw it many years ago. We even quote lines from the film from time to time (“Son of a Nutcracker!”).

In one part of the film Buddy the Elf sings to his father… “I’m here with my dad and we never met. And he wants me to sing him a song. And, um, I was adopted but you didn’t know I was born. So, I’m here now, I found you, Daddy. And, guess what? I love you, I love you, I love you!”

It cracks us up all the time.

Premiering on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 on NBC is a new holiday animated film called Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas.

Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and based on the holiday favorite film Elf and the hit Broadway musical, Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas, is a stop-motion hour-long animated musical special featuring the voices of Jim Parsons as Buddy, Ed Asner reprising his role as the voice of Santa, Mark Hamill as Walter and Kate Micucci as Jovie. The voice cast also include Jay Leno, Matt Lauer, Gilbert Gottfried, Fred Armisen and Steve Higgins.

I had the opportunity to screen the holiday special before it airs.

I have never seen the Broadway musical, so I am not sure how that compares to the film.

In Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas the story line is similar to that of the film with just a few differences here and there. Buddy is a human who thinks he’s an elf and lives in the North Pole. Santa tells him he’s really a human and that his father lives in New York City so Buddy heads off to the city to find his father. He meets his grumpy father, half brother, stepmother and a sweet young lady named Jovie.

Unlike the real action film, this stop motion animation features a lot of songs – and I do mean a lot. There were quite a few songs sung throughout the hour long special. I’m assuming these are songs from the Broadway show.

I watched the show with my husband (my kids were off doing their own thing at that time). I didn’t tell my husband who did the voices for any of the characters. I wanted to see if he could guess them. He knew right away it was Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory) as Buddy and Ed Asner as Santa. He never picked up on Mark Hamill as Walter. I would have thought he would since we are huge Star Wars fans.

This is a super cute animated special that the whole family will enjoy.

The animated Buddy is adorable. He’s build really weird but that adds to his quirkiness.

Be sure to mark your calendars and set your TIVO to NBC on December 16, 2014 at 8:00 PM (EST) / 7:00 PM (CST) for Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas.

Kimberly

*I received a free screener copy in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own and not influenced in any way.

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