Bullsmurf.

Let's explore how The Smurfs react to our world! With modern technology and ! We can get some good jokes in about that. Yeah this is how we can get a new audience to connect with these characters. It ticks all the boxes of brand recognition, nostalgia and modern audience appeal to sell theatre tickets and poor merchandise. Ignoring the inconsistent characters and abandoned plot lines, this was a a bad film. With them taken into consideration, it was a terrible film.

It's just so ineffably, interminably, indescribably pointless that even the good points -- Harris's lead, Mays's inherent cuteness -- get lost in a fog of patronising clichés and a script that goes nowhere. Pixar and Disney have shown time and time again that kids' films don't need to be childish, so how is this condescending dreck still being made?

Having expected true Rob Schneideresque horror of I was pleasantly surprised. Like waking up naked with someone after a night on the town turning over and fearing to see Clint Howard, but finding Courtney Love. It's not as bad as you'd expected, but still a train wreck. The movie had one or two almost funny moments, but as I got further into the movie I started rooting for Gargamel. It's a kids movie but even kids will find the smurf talk ridiculous. All in all this movie smurfinging smurfs!

Instead of reimagining The Smurfs as a live-action antidote to the overly-sentimental, typically unfunny family films we've come to expect from Hollywood studios, Raja Gosnell gives them his Scooby-Doo treatment. He transplants these cartoon characters to a real world setting not to confront them with their own unreality but merely repeat the sins of all those Garfields, Shreks and Elfs. Derivative and laborious, The Smurfs takes the prize for 2011's most banal movie.

A movie for little ones except that the running time is far too long and the constant product placement is more annoying than the smurfs themselves.

Nothin but a funny feel-good-movie for kids, parents and smurf-fans.

Eh. This would've been much better if they warped to 70s Harlem.

very funny 10 out of 10

sirinler, gargamel, new york, mavi ay

Hank Azaria steals this movie. The only reason to watch it.

Hank Azaria was a perfect Gargamel and had some great lines. The rest was so so. Loved the 3D.

Smurf the grown ups.

Not a complete butchery of its source as is the wont with recent live action/talking CGI remakes of classic material (ie Yogi Bear, Marmaduke, Garfield, Alvin & Chipmunks). My kid enjoyed it and I managed to stay awake (after a big lunch and a couple of pints) so its got that going for it!

I was turned off by the reviews and feedback, and almost convinced my kids not to go, but as they'd stayed off TV 5 days, had to concede to their wishes. Turns out they had a BLAST, almost needed to take them to the doc for stitches they laughed so hard. Wife and I also liked the references to the comics, as I have a few Peyo books and a collection of Spirou. Azaria is great too. Hey, brainless fun is sometimes just that! If you're looking for deep meaning in Smurf/Schtroumpfs, you're insane...

THE SMURFS fails to make any solid case for why we should care about the Smurfs, or why they're so popular to begin with. They're cute enough, but in this film, none of them have much personality to speak of; Jonathan Winters' avuncular Papa Smurf comes off best, which isn't saying much. Neil Patrick Harris, as a harried ad-man whose life the Smurfs invade, is clearly embarrassed by his being there; Hank Azaria's Gargamel, however, is goofily amusing. But the script is poor and the CGI uneven.

"Here comes The Smurfs movie to nail the coffin shut, to remind us that there's no bigger bitch in this life than nostalgia." - Ed Gonzalez

The Smurfs is completely childish. But this is not exactly an error, when I used to like smurfs, I was a child. And this is not a movie to please the adults who watched smurfs, is a film aimed at children today, and in that sense, it worked, somehow, even if it is too silly to watch, being an adult. Anyway, something I would highlight is the actor Hank Azaria, pretty good as Gargamel.

This movie didn't need to be made. It's clearly not meant for people who grew up with the show (way too immature), and kids who watch it won't care that it's The Smurfs in place of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Hank Azaria, as he's wont to do, is the only funny thing in this movie. Everyone else, including Harris, is completely flat and unamusing.

This is such a smurfing smurfie. So much smurfed smurf I was smurfing the smurf. I suppose smurf was ok as smurf and some of it was kind of smurfy, but mostly it was smurfily smurfing. Lots of smurfid pop smurfure gas that really fell smurf. At least some smurfs appeared to be smurfare of how smurficulus the smurfepts of smurfs is. SMURF.

If you wanna save your time and childhood dreams, I do not recommend this movie, or be prepared to be disappointed. However, it's clear that lots of scene and effects are designed for 3-D, my score would be much much better with it.

not bad ... but

I was a big fan of the Schtroumpfs but never liked the latter translation with Smurfs. The oldie Smurfs animation was much better - now - after seeing the 3D Smurfs and I never really liked it either! This was a cheap kid version of nice comics story. Hank Azaria is a nice actor and voice for animations, but here they put him down as well. Shame on you! I kissed the Smurf and I liked it was only good joke. Thanks Katy. And I did not like constant The Lord of the Rings connections in the story.

Terrible romantic/family layer, but most of the small jokes were well done ^^

Complete and utter bullsmurf!