The Smurfs

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The Smurfs

PG

2011

1h 42m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Fantasy

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Evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) has plagued the happy, peaceful Smurfs for a very long time. Finally, he succeeds in chasing the little blue people from their village and through a magic portal -- which transports them to Manhattan and into the life of ad executive Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris). Only three apples high and lost in the Big Apple, the Smurfs (Jonathan Winters, Alan Cumming, Katy Perry) must find a way back to their world before Gargamel tracks them down.

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Critics Consensus

The Smurfs assembles an undeniably talented cast of voice actors and live-action stars -- then crushes them beneath a blue mound of lowest-common-denominator kiddie fare.

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

05/03/2024

1/5

It makes you think about deep things, man, such as your own mortality.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

01/27/2012

2/4

Peyo's much cherished creations do little to nothing for me, and I can't say spending a 102-minutes with them in a live action-computer animated hybrid was all that high on my personal to-do list.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

09/14/2011

4/5

The Smurfs will likely be the best, most enjoyable kid film of 2011. And, yes, adults have been catered for. Dive in.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

10/14/2022

2.5/5

The less-than-Smurfy live-action adaptation...

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/23/2020

.5/4.0

One can only hope that America ignores this charmless, unimaginative, and downright traumatic trip through 80's children's television.

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

07/14/2020

C-

"The Smurfs" is so smurfing sweet that you'll want to smurfing puke all over the smurfing place.

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Devlin W

@ARandomMovieReviewer 6d

You don’t need to listen to my rating. I guess it’s good but dosent get the full 4 stars.

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Blu B

Dec 2

I've never seen the beloved kids show...but even I can tell you the misunderstanding of the source material here is beyond horrific. Not shocked this is Sony also. Sony bad movies are really a special kind of bad. I wonder how Dennis felt turning this in. Like was he proud of this...because this is the same dude who would go on to make Showdogs. The jokes here are just...the lowest common denominator before you hit the "Movie" Movie humor level. The product placements are out of control here. The Guitar Hero scene kind of sums up what's wrong with this film in a nutshell. I can't even imagine how someone who grew up with this must be beyond angry watching it. The bad guy not only is terrible but he looks cheap also. Like a step above Spirit Halloween stuff. They also really make no attempt at introducing any character here. They clearly assume you've seen the show. (aka Suicide Squad 2016) The idea of putting them in a Enchanted style fish out of water idea could work but my god.

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Kimberly A.

@kinakim Nov 3

I like the movíe, But this skin some part’s of the movie.

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Emma C

Nov 1

Have seen the movie way to many times but it will always be a awsome one

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Lukas C

Oct 16

I owe this movie an apology. Before I said, "It was the worst." But when I saw Smurfs, it was way worse than this.

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Ry R.

@AACC-Critic-YT Sep 1

Just mediocre..but it puts so much stuff in your face very uncomfortably! The CGI ain’t that good Etheir but, I can see where it works. Just, I don’t have too much bad stuff to say about it, so I can call it full-on bad, but the Smurfs (2011) has major flaws that keep it far from being good.

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Evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) has plagued the happy, peaceful Smurfs for a very long time. Finally, he succeeds in chasing the little blue people from their village and through a magic portal -- which transports them to Manhattan and into the life of ad executive Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris). Only three apples high and lost in the Big Apple, the Smurfs (Jonathan Winters, Alan Cumming, Katy Perry) must find a way back to their world before Gargamel tracks them down.

Director: Raja Gosnell
Producer: Jordan Kerner
Screenwriter: J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Production Co: Kerner Entertainment
Rating: PG (Some Mild Rude Humor|Action)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 29, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $142.6M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS

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