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1="The Smurfs is ultimately harmless. It's not a good movie, not even close, and as far as children's entertainment goes, you do so, so much better. Just look at the stuff Disney, mh:greatestmovies:Pixar and DreamWorks have been producing recently, to release something as lifeless as The Smurfs to such a crowded market place just reeks of laziness, but with the exception of one or two moments, there's nothing hear that I'd try and stop children from actively seeing, but with it's outdated sensibility and just a lack of anything truly compelling here, it won't appeal to anyone from above the age of let's say six or seven. Sure, it's meant to for kids, but when you release a kids film in theatres, it's the adults that have to pay, take them and sit through the the movie with the kids, and I firmly believe that there's only so much an adult will be willing to stomach until they decide to stop taking their kids to see lackluster or crappy movies, no matter how much a kid whines or begs. Despite some decent performances and decent production values, The Smurfs is ultimately bulged down with a lack of effort, soul and just a coporate focus group approach of what was popular in 2010 and 2011."

- TribleeReviews

2="This movie has nothing to do with the original Smurfs! Look, you can do that with Garfield, you can do that with the Chipmunks, but the Smurfs live in a medieval fantasy world with dragons, with wizards, with witches, with magic, with sorcery, with adventure, and you decided it was more entertaining to have advertising executives, domestic parenting, New York City, Sony product placements?! That is not what the Smurfs stood for, it was magical, it was timeless and you made it... 2000's! (And yet, it was such a big hit, why? - Nostalgia Critic) I'll tell you why, because they threw a lot of money and advertising at it with no effort. People forget how all over the place the Smurfs were. It was a marketing monster that couldn't be escaped. It grabbed older people's nostalgia, younger kids' love for toys and enough celebrities to have people shrug and be way too forgiving because of how cute it was."

- Black Nerd

3="This is corporate movie making at it's finest, it's what happens when a studio owns a beloved franchise, and takes anybody who can put pieces of film together, have them make a disposable product knowing you'll still make money with it's familiarity to movie-goers."

- Joey.T.Cartoon.P

4="I mean, IT'S SO BAD! IT IS SO. FREAKING. BAD! This movie is just, I hate it! I was sitting there, just begging for it to end and I stayed until the end and I just ran out it in the theatre like my butt was on fire, I mean, oh my gosh, this movie is terrible!"

- Chris Stuckmann

The Smurfs is a 2011 American 3D live-action/computer-animated comedy film loosely based on The Smurfs comic book series of the same name created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo and the 1980s animated TV series it spawned.

It was directed by Raja Gosnell and stars Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, and Sofía Vergara, with Jonathan Winters and Katy Perry as the voices of Papa Smurf and Smurfette. It is the first CGI/live-action hybrid film produced by mh:greatestmovies: Sony Pictures Animation and in The Smurfs duology. During early production, the film was known as The Smurfs Movie. The film had its worldwide premiere on June 16, 2011, in Júzcar, a small village in Spain, and was released on July 29, 2011 by Columbia Pictures.

A sequel, titled The Smurfs 2, was released on July 31, 2013, then a third movie which was a fully animated reboot entitled mh:greatestmovies: Smurfs: The Lost Village released in April 2017 and on March 25, 2017 in Georgia.

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