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Elf was not as funny as I'd hoped, but still pretty funny, and sweet, and made me wish desperately to be in New York for Christmas.
The movie begins with the inevitable disclaimer that "some characters, scenes and events in whole or in part have been created for dramatic purposes." Even so, given the facts as we know them to date, it is startling in its relative accuracy--more than earlier reportage by The Washington Post (which attributed its initial Rambo version to "U.S. officials") and The New York Times (whose reporter Jayson Blair fictionalized some of the paper's Lynch coverage).
One scholar, speaking for many, has riposted that Mr. Bloom has abstracted Falstaff from the web of relationships in the plays, inflated him to monstrous parade-float dimensions, "like the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man in `Ghostbusters,' " striding through the skyscrapers.(Why do you think the scholar is unnamed? Is there a Scholar Protection Program for people who mock Harold Bloom?)