MovieChat Forums > Kicking & Screaming (2005) Discussion > ELF vs KICKING AND SCREAMING

ELF vs KICKING AND SCREAMING


since theyre both will ferrell childrens pics i think its fair to compare "elf" to "kicking and screaming" which one do u guys think is better?

personally im gonna give my vote to elf ,both films have some great lines but elf is def. better

reply

I think Elf is cuter and K&S has more of a moral. I think I'm gonna go with Elf, though. He's so funny as an innocent kid-like person.

Amy Poehler- "You’re right, Horatio, President Bush is a genius. And so are you."

reply

yeha good call shamrock but i also think the line "this reminds me of the north pole only it smells like mushrooms and everyone wants to hurt me" helps it out a little

reply

Elf was vastly superior, mainly due to the writing.

Elf had clever writing and K&S didn't. Elf had a big heart and lots of good laughs, KS didn't. Elf solicited a great, energetic performance from Will, KS didn't. Elf is a very good movie, and KS... isn't.

Elf made $173 million dollars... KS made $45. Numbers don't mean a movie is good, but there is a reason Elf lasted so long at the theaters and KS didn't.

reply

im gonna hafta agree with impfac on this one.... kicking and screaming has a couple lol scenes but those are few and far between...

i LOVE elf. one of my favorite movies to quote...

reply

This place is like santa workshop only it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me. That was the exact quote coconutpete

reply

Elf, definitely. Maybe I'm just a sentimental sucker but I especially loved the ending with Santa flying off through the city. Then of course there's the scene with Miles Finch. Oh man. "Ya feeling strong my friend?!" lol

___________________________________
"Don't tell me to 'Be cool'. I AM COOL!"

reply

Elf definitely



"I have an inferiority complex... but it's not a very good one."

reply

i choose elf.

reply

As of right now, neither I haven't seen Kicking and Screaming, and I am not a fan of Elf right now, so I have to say netiher, I do have Kicking and Screaming rented out a video store, I only have 2 days to watch it, even throught they say it is a 3 day rental, because they count the day that it is rented as Day 1, and I got it today, so I either have tonight or tommrrow night to get it watched.

reply

Well seeing since I have seen both movies, and I hope never to see ELf again, I would have to say Kicking & Screaming, I much rather see him play a newsman or even a soccer coach then a person that thinks he is an elf, you don't usually see movies like that, Elf is one of the movies that should have gotten a bad review from the critics.

reply

After seing elf i thought to my self......man that was stupid. Will ferrell tries to force his humour onto you. Then I saw kicking and screaming and I then tought, Will farrell tries to hard to be funny. he was funny in saturday night live, not in these wastes of money movies. His humour and acting is the same in all his movies. He should stick to more minor roles like in starsky and hutch or wedding crashers which i had a border line amount of respect for him in.

reply

[deleted]

KICKING AND SCREAMING

www.freewebs.com/donaldtrumprocks
My website-check it out

reply

Elf.

This one, whilst cute, is pretty much terrible from start to finish.


You know it makes sense.

reply

Any movie where a grown man pushs a little kid by the head down to the ground on a soccer field and tries to say the kid fell is funny in my book. K&S wins out for me.

reply

Definitely Elf, though I think this gets an undeserved rap.

The #1 forum for Will Ferrel fans on the internet: http://www.willferrellfanforum.tk/

reply

i choose Kicking and Screaming, though Elf is hilarious too

reply