Meaning: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Synonyms: barbarous; cruel; fell; savage; vicious; brutal; roughshod. Context examples: a barbarous crime / brutal beatings / cruel tortures / Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks / a savage slap / vicious kicks. Similar:
The film was extremely successful on release in 2001 and it helped establish DreamWorks as a prime competitor to Disney and Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation.
For other uses, see Elf (disambiguation) . Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film produced by Jon Berg, Todd Komarnicki and Shauna Robertson, directed by Jon Favreau with music by John Debney and written by David Berenbaum.he movie makes heavy use of forced perspective to make Buddy the Elf appear much larger than all the other elves. Stop motion animation was also used. Zooey Deschanel singing was not in the original script and Favreau added it when he learned she was a singer.