The Smurfs

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The Smurfs

PG,

2011,

1h 42m,

Kids & Family/

Comedy/

Adventure/

Fantasy

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117 Reviews

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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.

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

May 3, 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

Jan 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)

Sep 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

Oct 14, 2022

2.5/5

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

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 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

Jul 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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Ron R

Feb 20, 2019

What a piece of dogshit!

Albus R

Feb 15, 2019

With a great set of talented voice casts. The Smurfs is a underrated film, despite the stupid subplot

Aug 25, 2018

Down with the smurfs gargamel will rise

Hermione S

Feb 23, 2018

This was the most hilarious animation movie, I have ever seen. I have rarely seen Neil Patrick Harris in any movie I watched apart from this. But he was so so funny in it. Creds to the cast and crew for an eipc movie

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Han S

Oct 23, 2017

You know I saw part of it on tv and I was not a fan of this movie they should stop making more movies of this I mean come on when they made the second one that didn't get a good Reading

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Luke S

Sep 27, 2017

Shamefully standard and cynical, the amount of product placement in this movie is jaw-dropping.

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Raja Gosnell

Director

Hank Azaria

Gargamel

Neil Patrick Harris

Patrick Winslow

Jayma Mays

Grace Winslow

Sofía Vergara

Odile

Tim Gunn

Henri

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Synopsis

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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