To think Zooey Deschanel would not have fallen for Elf??

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I do not understand the attraction at all! She is young and gorgeous and he is borderline creepy in a lot of the scenes.

She liked that he was big in his tights 🤪

Borderline?! He is very much creepy. Would've been a much funnier movie without the romance element.

Exactly what l was saying last night! How can she find his behaviours attractive?!

I mean if you are looking for realism .....

It would have been like dating a child constantly high on a cocktail of speed, e's and E numbers wrong on so many levels tbf

Yeah there is something vaguely pervy and weird about them as a couple.

Same a Forrest Gump and Jenny 😟

I agree. He basically has the mental age of a 7-10 year old!! So weird!!

A chance to meet Santa?

But also isn't the actor like 40 and she is 20 in it...

Zooey Deschanel could turn me away from men!

He’d sort Christmas out though, she wouldn’t be moaning in mumsnet

Yes! This!!!!

I say every year the film is creepy.

Also zooey deschanel and leon redbone singing cold outside.

Snow White was clearly not into monogamy.

We watched yesterday and were saying the same.
He could be her father also... he is weird.

Super creepy.

I love Elf, but I cannot get past the truly awful singing from Emily at the end. It's painful.

The fact that he's so childlike makes her the creepy one.

He could be her father also... he is weird.

He's only 13 years older than her. Not quite old enough to be her father.

I saw this the other day! Talk about male fantasy dodgy message. She says go away. He follows her. Goes in the bathroom when she's in the shower. Yikes!

I said to the girls if you ever meet a man in real life who won't take no for an answer, run like hell!

@steff13 absolutely. If the genders were reversed and it was a typical grown man dating a woman with seemingly learning difficulties / much younger mental age I wonder if it would be such a Christmas classic

Technically still possible and ignoring real life age diff he looks like an old man and she looks super young

Firstly how did I never clock she's played Zoey Deschanel!!

But YANBU. I say the same about the woman colleague in Big - weird weird weird!

I always want him to get together with his biological father’s PA. They get on well right from the start and they are both big fans of Christmas.

Can we not just enjoy the film,without it being made in to something it isnt.

Its a made up fantasy,not based on real life.

@Fraggling yes to dodgy male fantasy message- not particularly attractive 40ish year old bloke with creepy behaviour ends up with stunning 20-something woman despite following her around when she’s told him to go away/her finding him outside the shower etc