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

31 replies

Underneaththetree · 24/12/2019 17:53

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

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TheFaerieQueene · 24/12/2019 17:55

She liked that he was big in his tights 🤪

PerfectPretender · 24/12/2019 17:55

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

TitianaTitsling · 24/12/2019 17:55

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

minimonkey11 · 24/12/2019 17:56

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

LolaDarkdestroyer · 24/12/2019 17:57

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

Jiggles101 · 24/12/2019 17:57

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

Same a Forrest Gump and Jenny 😟

Thickums · 24/12/2019 18:02

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

Lordfrontpaw · 24/12/2019 18:08

A chance to meet Santa?

doadeer · 24/12/2019 18:09

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

nordstrom · 24/12/2019 18:09

Zooey Deschanel could turn me away from men!

altiara · 24/12/2019 18:10

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

CalleighDoodle · 24/12/2019 18:12

Yes! This!!!!

I say every year the film is creepy.

Also zooey deschanel and leon redbone singing cold outside.

CrissmussMockers · 24/12/2019 18:12

Snow White was clearly not into monogamy.

Sushiroller · 24/12/2019 18:21

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

SleepingStandingUp · 24/12/2019 18:24

Super creepy.

ChocChipWookie · 24/12/2019 18:25

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

steff13 · 24/12/2019 18:30

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

steff13 · 24/12/2019 18:31

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.

Fraggling · 24/12/2019 18:35

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!

SleepingStandingUp · 24/12/2019 18:38

@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

Sushiroller · 24/12/2019 18:38

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

shirleyschmidt · 24/12/2019 18:40

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!

QuillBill · 24/12/2019 18:46

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.

Dustarr73 · 24/12/2019 18:47

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.

Underneaththetree · 24/12/2019 18:50

@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

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