Smurfs Movie Info

[Drtooth]

Both of these are great '80s cartoons that I grew up with and love watching- but most of these movie versions are just really stupid and not worth it. I think The Flintstones movies are still probably about the best movie version of a cartoon I've seen thus far. (well, as cartoon to live action transformation goes.)
But here's hoping this Smurfs movie will be smurfed more closely into the cartoon and somehow be really smurfy!

It can't even get close to where the series was unless they chuck the whole thing out and start over. They NEED to make this the way paramount was planning, with someone who actually knows how to write a Smurfs movie. let's not forget, this is BIGGER than some merchandise driven 1980's kiddy cartoon. This is a standard in Europe. It's as big as TinTin over there. Ruining a cartoon show is one thing, but ruining a classic comic book like that? That's nothing short of disrespectful and frustrating. And no matter how angry us "children of the 80's" are, think how upset generations of European comic readers feel. it's like if someone in some other country made a Mickey Mouse movie without even bothering to look into what the heck a Mickey Mouse is.

I can't wait to see the soundtrack with the obvious pun-laden garbage songs like "I'm Blue" shoved awkwardly into a scene for cheap laughs.

I really wanna know why Paramount passed on this (they had the RIGHT idea and the RIGHT direction) and why Sony ("Come on! Surf's Up is the bestest movie since Open Season 2: DTV Dog Puns!") decided to throw their horrible animation studio and terrible writers at it.

This is gonna TANK! It's gonna BOMB! It's not going to get fans of the show to want to drag their kids to it, and kids are too young to know or care about who these guys are. SHeesh! No wonder the FR movie is having so much trouble being made. No forced rap talking Fraggles to appeal to the "ethnics."