Christmas films to get you feeling festive

Elf, 2003

This is one of the silliest Christmas films ever made. But it is charming in its complete abandon and can't fail to get you singing 'Santa Claus is Comin' to Town' in idle moments. When a wily baby orphan climbs into Santa's sack and stows away to the North Pole, a whole heap of trouble is unleashed. Baby Buddy (Will Ferrell) is raised by the elves but soon grows a little too big for elf school. Going through a bit of an identity crisis as his deplorable toy-making skills leave him far behind his friends, Santa and Papa Elf reveal to Buddy that he's a human and not elfish. The naïve soul vows to find his real father and embarks on a trip to New York. Luckily when he arrives in the Big Apple it is December, so he is mistaken for a department store elf. Having found his rather mean and nasty father (Santa says he's on the naughty list), a rather complicated plot ensues involving Santa and a dysfunctional sleigh, a pretty elf from Gimbels and a little boy with an oversized moral compass called Michael. It ends, as all Christmas movies should, with a song and a sleigh ride.