James Caan, who played Buddy's straight-laced human dad, Walter Hobbs in the movie, revealed in a 2020 radio interview that Ferrell and Elf director Jon Favreau "didn't get along" while making the ...

This scene happens after the oversized elf is sent to work in the mailroom by his father and gets a brief tour, but nearly didn't make it into the movie. The two are lying on top of two mail bins ...