The Smurf's Triumphant return!

[BoomerangFish]

I love the Smurfs, but I think the "Bringing them into real world" thing is getting old. They could've just made the whole film take place within and be about just the Smurf world.

 

[frogboy4]

I love the Smurfs, but I think the "Bringing them into real world" thing is getting old. They could've just made the whole film take place within and be about just the Smurf world.

I'm beginning to agree with you. The shots of the village looked great. I'd like to explore that world.

The ad has some fun puns in it, but they use the "I'm getting to old for this" cliche! This smacks of a movie made by committee.

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Yeah...still not convinced.

Neil Patrick Harris or no Neil Patrick Harris, this is still going to be a pass in my book.

 

[Slackbot]

The shots of the village were good. I'd go see a movie like that.

However, the rest of the trailer appalled me. It was.... gah. Pop culture gags. A Smurf falling in a toilet. The lame gag about trying to talk to a girl while secretly holding a critter (that's doing...what?) Predictable jokes on the song and smurfed-up dialogue. "You messed with the wrong Smurf." The only cliche I expected and didn't see was somebody taking a hit to the crotch.

I swear I could hear Peyo doing the uneven parallel bars in his grave. And now more than ever, I hope that if a Fraggle Rock movie is ever made they stay underground!

 

[Drtooth]

I'm beginning to agree with you. The shots of the village looked great. I'd like to explore that world.

The ad has some fun puns in it, but they use the "I'm getting to old for this" cliche! This smacks of a movie made by committee.

You know, this was what I was saying all along. Yeah. This is the trailer I was waiting for. I was on the fence the whole time, but now more than ever, I do Not want to see this movie.

Seriously. What the heck was the call to bring them into the "real world" a by all means stale plot device that was only done once even remotely well in Fat Albert (at least the story was heartfelt enough to make up for it, and they had a good rationalization). There's enough magic, mayhem in wonder in the Smurf village for a series of movies, and they had to make them fall into toilets and make obvious jokes about how small and or blue they are. And the writers from the Scooby-Doo movies, so you KNOW they're just going to make "Seriously, how stupid WAS this show?" jokes.

Smurfs a lot, Sony! Why did anyone trust the braintrust that made 3 Open Seasons (why was there even call for one?), Happy Feet: BUT THEY'RE SURFING! ! and Cloudy with No Chance of Picking Up the Fershluggener Book. I wish Sony's animation department would go the way of Imagemovers. They BOTH suck.

 

[frogboy4]

I'm probably gonna see it because I like movies, there's a theater in 90 seconds walking distance and I'll see almost anything. Looks more enjoyable than that monstrosity of an owl movie last year (saw that on a plane and wanted to jump out the window), but I'm not expecting much and I won't contribute to the opening week box office total. I did pass on Yogi. That was probably a good idea.

 

[CensoredAlso]

that was only done once even remotely well in Fat Albert (at least the story was heartfelt enough to make up for it, and they had a good rationalization).

Fat Albert had a couple of sweet moments, but just suffered from some really clumsy writing. The jokes had potential but were continually executed incorrectly and just resulted in crickets chirping, to speak, heh.

Kenan Thompson actually did a great job, IMO, but a lot of the other characters were completely unrelated to their original counterparts. Another hallmark of these remakes, there's little or no care taken into these things.

 

[Drtooth]

I did pass on Yogi. That was probably a good idea.

I shoulda... I will say, the half hour of the movie that WAS about Yogi was almost enjoyable, but the garbage about Ranger Smith, his idiot assistant and the Mary Sue Smith was spending half the movie wooing SUCKED. Overall, it was a flat, cliche ridden mess... but I can't even blame the main characters for it, because they were kinda okay.

But that was my fool me once. This movie I'm going to avoid. Neil and Hank aren't even enough for me to want to see this even for them.

If I get bored, and I can see this dirt cheap, I will give it a shot, but I'd rather keep the money for Thor, Captain America, Green Lantern, Cars 2... only movies I'd rather see Smurfs than are that horrid Zoo Keeper thing and that Jim Carrey dung about the penguins.

 

[Yorick]

Smurfs a lot, Sony! Why did anyone trust the braintrust that made 3 Open Seasons (why was there even call for one?), Happy Feet: BUT THEY'RE SURFING! ! and Cloudy with No Chance of Picking Up the Fershluggener Book. I wish Sony's animation department would go the way of Imagemovers. They BOTH suck.

I like Open Season and Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs. But the Smurfs movie looks so bad because it has no respect for the show, which was gold. It's a darn shame.

Of course (as I said before but "this may be the last time") the first proof I got that there's no respect for the show with this film is that no living members of the original show's cast were invited to do a voice other than the magnificent Jonathan Winters.

Surely they could just have gotten "stars" to voice the characters where the original voice actor has died or turned down the role. But instead, they don't even try.

Flyencrow on IMDB 6 hours ago said: "I don't understand why they felt the need to go super campy with this. I think it would have been so much more awesome if they went very serious with it. They could have made a great action adventure movie with sorcery and left it in land of the smurfs. They didn't need to drag it into the real world."

 

[Drtooth]

Fat Albert had a couple of sweet moments, but just suffered from some really clumsy writing. The jokes had potential but were continually executed incorrectly and just resulted in crickets chirping, to speak, heh.

Kenan Thompson actually did a great job, IMO, but a lot of the other characters were completely unrelated to their original counterparts. Another hallmark of these remakes, there's little or no care taken into these things.

COugh...

Uh... it WAS written by Bill Cosby so...

If nothing else, though the characters WERE based on his creations, he was the host and voice actor of some of the characters... he didn't write the show himself. So, I'm guessing the characters were much closer to the inspirations TO the characters on the show, not the characters from the show.

Now, I ALWAYS wanted to read the script that Forrest Whittaker did that Cosby and him got into a fight about.

But overall, I'll take well meaning but flawed over "CRAP! Our film license is about to expire! We have 3 months to write a script, let's pick the second one we can find, and we'll have the whole thing done with 2 months and 28 days to spare!" Speed Racer was a directing vanity job, but at least they got the character names and half the portrayals right.

"I don't understand why they felt the need to go super campy with this. I think it would have been so much more awesome if they went very serious with it. They could have made a great action adventure movie with sorcery and left it in land of the smurfs. They didn't need to drag it into the real world."

There wasn't... but it was probably the second script they looked at when the clock was ticking and said "uh... okay." then gave second thoughts about it and dumped it on August when they know no one will see it, but they might just get an audience that's seen Kung Fu Panda and Cars several times already. I will say, at least they didn't go with the script where the Belgian girl who doesn't feel accepted (played by a cute blonde haired blue eyed girl who's good looking enough to land a Hollywood) cried them to life so they can help be their friends. But still a "GAWD, this show is campy! Let's make fun of everything! it's a paycheck to us!" script shows there's no thought, the release date shows there's no care, and I STILL want to know why Paramount's epic Smurf Trilogy got cancelled in favor of a qicky nostalgic cash grab that's not going to appeal to new generations or the actual kids that grew up with this.