How Old Is Buddy In Elf?

Here’s how old Buddy is in Elf. There are lots of classic Christmas movies, those that serve as a marking point for the season’s arrival for millions of viewers, year after year. Elf has certainly found its way into that list of the yuletide favorites. Elf, released in 2003, was the directorial breakthrough of future MCU mainstay Jon Favreau. It also helped to cement Will Ferrell as the hottest comedic actor of the time with his performance as Buddy the elf. A lot of the comedy comes from seeing Ferrell as a grown man play such a childlike character, raising questions of how old Buddy is in Elf and what his age is supposed to be.