You know you're in for a bad day at the theater when the kids in the audience are the ones behaving. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: adults, SHUT THE HELL UP!!! I paid to watch and listen to the movie, not you repeat what was just spoken, or in the case of
The Smurfs, meowed. Yep, that's right, I paid to see
The Smurfs. I really need to have a talk with my niece and nephew about their movie-going choices. I always expect Saturday morning cartoons being transformed into a 90 minute movie to be bad, but this is as close to the bottom of the barrel as I want to get. Gargamel, in a change of character brings the Smurfs a basket of cookies in an effort to bring peace to their ongoing war. Not buying that? Right, Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their mushroom village to a "portal" that takes them to New York City. Seriously, does every magical "portal" end in The Bjg Apple? Maybe they are "wormholes." Sorry, awful joke. Coincidentally, so are the jokes in this movie. Anyway, they have only a few days to get the "portal" back open so they can return home.
The human actors in this are Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays, both doing pretty well considering they were acting with air. The real star of this is the always hilarious Hank Azaria as Gargamel. He is spot-on funny and does a great job as the prattfalling bad guy. He's also not too scary for the younger kids in the audience, trust me, I found this out myself. The actors playing the Smurfs are from all over the demographic board: Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf, Katy Perry as Smurfette, Anton Yelchin as Clumsy, Alan Cumming as Gutsy, and George Lopez as Grumpy.
The kids will probably love this, as the one I was with did. Adults....just grin and bear it, at least it's short. The effects were ok, Azrael the cat was a mediocre mix of live action and CGI. If you want to get out of the heat for a while with the family, you could do worse, but not by a whole lot. 2.5/10, just for Azaria alone.
See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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