The Smurfs
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Based on the cartoon strip characters created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Peyo, and made famous to most by Hanna-Barbera's hit '80s television series, The Smurfs are back for a new adventure.
When tyrant wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria, The Simpsons) chases the Smurfs out of their village, they're forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York's Central Park. With the help of new human friends (Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays) the Smurfs have to get home before Gargamel tracks them down.
Starring
Neil Patrick Harris, Katy Perry, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria, Paul Reubens, George Lopez, Jayma Mays
Directed by
Raja Gosnell ('Never Been Kissed', 'Scooby-Doo', 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua')
Written by
David Stem, David Weiss
Studio
Sony Pictures Animation
(G) | Adaptation, Adventure, Animated, Family, Kids | USA | Official Website
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Reviewed by annaa bit of fun
I havnt seen anything smurfy that I can remember except the christmas cartoon special & my mum collected smurfs so my son & I quite looked forward to the movie & enjoyed it & had a good laugh. I really enjoyed the cat laughing & making comments even tho it was obvious it looked funny to me & my son thought the peeing in the wine "chamber pot" in the restaurant to be hilariously funny. all in all a good bit of family fun. by the way my son is a teenager not a young one, we both enjoy kids movies from time to time & I think thats a good thing don't you?
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Entertainment Weekly (USA)
The Smurfs may be blue, but their movie is decidedly green, recycling discarded bits from other celluloid Happy Meals like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield, and Hop into something half animated, half live action, and all careful studio calculation.
Click to read full review.Hollywood Reporter
This noisy, live action/animated rendering of those wee mushroom-dwellers doesn’t bother trying to capture the essence of what made the Pierre “Peyo” Culliford-created characters such a curiously endearing phenomenon.
Click to read full review.Los Angeles Times
This animated-live action hybrid is really more 3-D disaster than family comedy.
Click to read full review.New York Times
Those grown-up winks, along with an array of New York locations, make The Smurfs a surprisingly tolerable film for adults.
Click to read full review.The A.V Club (USA)
There’s little reason for childless adults to see The Smurfs, unless they’re just curious to know how far filmmakers can go in using feigned sincerity to sell a thoroughly calculated, cynical product.
Click to read full review.The Daily Mail (UK)
Small children may not notice the crassness of the script, cheapness of the gags and desperate mugging of the actors. Most older people will know exactly what this is: a huge, steaming pile of smurf.
Click to read full review.The Guardian (UK)
Easily pleased children and fans of the Teletubbies will enjoy it.
Click to read full review.Time Out (USA)
It makes you think about deep things, man, such as your own mortality, which you may long for more than a few times during Raja Gosnell’s surreally awful live action–animation hybrid.
Click to read full review.USA Today
All 4-year-olds reading this review: You're going to love The Smurfs. Parents of said 4-year-olds there's not a whole lot in it for you in this big-screen adaptation of the 1980s TV cartoon.
Click to read full review.Variety (USA)
Adorable and annoying, patently unnecessary yet kinda sweet, it's a calculated commercial enterprise with little soul but an appreciable amount of heart.
Click to read full review.Village Voice (USA)
More than that mushiness, though, it's the possibility of this frantic film spawning sequels that truly inspires thoughts of smurficide
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