Love Actually is better and came out shortly after Elf
This movie is one of the most overrated pieces of shit I've seen. It's dreadful. I watch it with my wife every year because I love her and enjoy spending time with her, and I don't talk bad about it with her because I know she enjoys it, but here I won't stand for this.
Love Actually is poorly written, poorly acted, propagates harmful gender stereotypes, has a criss-crossed and mixed message, and is miserable to sit through.
I dare anyone to watch this scene without cringing at the dialogue. This one four-minute scene alone is enough to disqualify the movie from even being considered 'decent,' let alone a classic Christmas movie. The rest of the movie is also awful, just maybe not quite so bad as this clip. I feel almost physical pain and sympathy from the actors in this scene for actually having to act it out. Poor Betty Draper. Jesus.
And why in the bloody hell is this movie so willfullly inappropriate?! Because of its vacuous nature, they very easily could have made it family friendly and appropriate, but nope, they made the obviously conscious decision to litter it with unnecessary nudity, gratuitous sex scenes, crassness, and vulgarity, just to absolutely ensure that no child will ever have a chance to see this movie that was somehow ALSO trying to be sentimental. It's mind-blowing and j have no idea what the makers of this trash heap were thinking.