"[The director] was like, 'The movie's not edgy enough — nobody's gonna come to this movie,'" Komarnicki remembered. The unnamed auteur's idea for upping the edginess factor was giving Buddy's love ...

The movie stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf — a human who is mistakenly raised among elves at the North Pole — as he takes a journey to NYC to meet his biological father, grumpy book publisher ...