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The Smurfs 3D

Release Date 10 Aug 2011 TBA

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Certificate: G

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The Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen in Columbia Pictures'/Sony Pictures Animation's hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they're forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York's Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

Cast:
Hank Azaria | Neil Patrick Harris | Jayma Mays | Sofia Vergara

Writers:
Peyo | J. David Stem | David N. Weiss

Producers:
Jordan Kerner

Directors:
Raja Gosnell

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Fulfilling a vision by Papa Smurf (voiced by Winters), the Smurfs find themselves sucked into a vortex when they try to rescue the headstrong and aptly named Clumsy (Yelchin) from a forbidden cave. And, as so often happens when people are sucked into a vortex, our little blue friends end up in New York. Where the evil Gargamel has plans to kidnap Grandpa and, eh, steal his Smurf essence. Which so often happens when you’re a tourist in New York.

THE VERDICT: So, just as Alvin And The Chipmunks unexpectedly pulverized all contenders at the box-office with their two big-screen outings, so it is that our little blue fiends has bettered – or perhaps battered, considering the expectations - Jon Favreau’s adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens in the US. I’m guessing Belgian cartoonist Peyo (aka Pierre Culliford) must be spinning with delight in his grave, his 1958 creation now set to dominate a whole new generation’s pocket money. The fact that it’s a noisy crock of charmless cock hardly seems to matter. Certainly not to those under 10. The 3D, needless to say, is as pointless as the plot. More importantly, director Raja Gosnell previously gave us two Scooby-Doo outings and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. And yet, he lives.

Review by Paul Byrne 

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    mart

    The writers have created the painfully unfunny Daddy Day Camp, National Security and Norbit. So what do you expect? Entertainment?

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    BIGBADBRIAN

    I liked the Smurfs when i was younger. I don't like them now. Kids in the cinema were bored. It's far too long and too many humans in it for the audience its aimed at. They are not the Chipmunks. This movie was handled badly. Hank Azaria is also terrible in this. I haven't been angry at a movie for a long time. Don't go see this. Don't see it ever!

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