The Smurfs

So, do you remember the show "The Smurfs" when you watched it on TV as you were a kid? Me neither, don't lie. Actually, I've never ever met anyone that actually liked the Smurfs so much to bring it to any conversation about anything ever. The Smurfs was one of those shows that kinda were "just there" between the awesomeness of Dragon Ball and other stuff. Everyone watched them, but nobody actually remembers what the fuck were they about, or any episode. Well there was Gargamel and he was evil and a wacky series of events unfolded as told as an epic quest for Smurf extract so he could be an omnipotent being... or something like that.

So imagine my wrinkled forehead and skeptic smirk when i was going to watch "The Smurfs: The Movie" on the theater. And my enormous surprise to find it actually good. I was actually having fun with it, an i didn't even knew why at the moment.

For the fans of gritty and in-depth thesis about the nature of a man, The Smurfs is not something for them. It's a light-hearted and funny family movie that actually stays truthful to the original stories and TV show, and if there is indeed a Smurfs fan out there fear not for this adaptation to the big screen.

Seriously, besides the sometimes cringeworthy "smurf" addon to any phrase the characters say (SMURFTASTIC, YOU SMURFED WITH THE WRONG SMURF, SMURFING SMURFHOLES, I WILL SMURF YOUR ASS-ok you get the idea) and besides the rapping scene with the little characters - because you can't leave a modern reference out of a new movie of course - , the entire ride was pretty funny, and Hank Azaria as the infamous Gargamel was, in my opinion, the best thing about it.

The whole script was done entirely to let people have a light good time where there's no any attempt to do anything else than bringing the original characters to this decade.

I'm actually glad to see something done right, even if i wasn't an entire fan of the source to be honest, but in my opinion, if you have little kids, cousins or brothers and want to spend a good time with them, or YOU just want to spend some time watching a movie, The Smurfs isn't a bad movie to consider, at all.


-Cizjut