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The Smurfs 3D



Review by Anthony Morris

the smurfs

The Smurfs 3D

the smurfs

If you were a Hollywood movie mogul and you wanted to wring some cash out of The Smurfs – cute little blue creatures best known for a forgettable television series and a bunch of figurines you could collect from service stations – you could hardly do better than The Smurfs.

Everything it does, it does with a shrug; after a brief opening set in the Smurf village, a small group of smurfs find themselves magically transported to New York, where they spend most of their time trying to get back.

Actually, that’s a lie; they spend most of their time saying hilarious lines where swearwords are replaced with the word "smurf" ("smurf happens" "up smurf creek without a smurfing paddle") hanging around a toilet, and pretty much doing whatever it takes to make you wish you'd bought a ticket to something else.

There's also the usual tedious moralising, as Neil Patrick Harris' workaholic character is taught the meaning of something or other by his new blue friends, but at least Hank Azaria as the evil wizard Gargamel seems to be having fun - watch out for his cat Azrael though, who is only CGI about half the time, and so comes across as a lot creepier than the film-makers intended.

But that’s the story across the board here, as nothing seems quite right, as this manages to be both completely generic and kind of unsettling in its shoddiness.

But who cares?

You're only going to this to keep the kids quiet for an hour or so, and if this is the best idea of how to do that you totally deserve having them use the word "smurf" as a swear word for the next six months.

2 out of 5




The Smurfs 3D
Australian release: 15th September, 2011
Official Site: The Smurfs 3D
Cast: Hank Azaria, Katy Perry and Jonathan Winters
Director: Raja Gosnell



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