Elf vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.7/10 for Elf). Elf is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 1h 41m. Elf is the older of the two (2003 against 2020). Both are comedy, family, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Elf
Soul| Elf | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Jon Favreau | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Andy Richter, Mary Steenburgen, Amy Sedaris, Peter Dinklage, Zooey Deschanel | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Elf
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…