Smurfs

I took my child to what I assumed would be a fun, light-hearted kids' movie. Unfortunately, what we got was a dark, dystopian story that felt more like a Harry Potter rip-off. The plot revolves around the good in the world being threatened with destruction, wormholes, alternate dimensions, and torture scenes. At one point, the Smurfs are even trapped in a torture chamber and threatened with being crushed unless they give up information.

My kid was terrified. He started crying and asking if we could leave, but we persuaded him to stay, hoping the movie would get better and reassure him in the end. Sadly, there was never any real sense of relief or joy to balance out the intensity. The film was so distressing that my child went to bed worried about having bad dreams. He even asked if these nightmares would keep coming back.

This movie wasn't just heavy-it was outright unfunny and devoid of any real humor or light-hearted moments. I didn't laugh once, and I can't imagine how anyone would, especially children. It feels like it was made without understanding how kids process information or emotions. The references in the movie are clearly aimed at adults, and I seriously doubt the filmmakers had children in mind when crafting this.

In my opinion, the movie's rating is misleading, and I strongly believe it should be reconsidered. While it's marketed as a family movie, it's far too intense and distressing for young audiences. Please, if you're a parent, consider this before taking your kids. If your child is sensitive to darker themes or has a vivid imagination, this movie may leave them scared and confused.

I mean my god, with all the poorly written dialogue, world-building, forgettable soundtrack, modern references and obnoxious comedy, I can't remember what the hell I just witnessed.

This movie is so bizarre in its existence. How can anyone greenlight this? How can anyone sign onto it? How can it get all these big name stars in such a stupid abomination.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Sony Smurf movies are much, much better. THIS... I don't know what this is and honestly, I don't care either.

It's a strange movie with wasted talents and the less I can remember it, the better.

I can't think of one good thing that this movie did.

This movie was very disappointing. I dont feel the voices fit the roles. I was used to Smurfettes voice being cute and dainty. The voice instead was rough and didnt fit her character. The plot didnt make sense. It seemed like things were juat thrown togethet and not thought out. They bleeped swear words all out at the end of movie in which my kids asked what that was. I dont want to have to explain an adult thing in a kids movie. I was very upset with this version. I think movies need to stick close to the original versions and characters. If not, it messes the movie up and highly disappoints.

I don't know if I've ever watched an animated movie and didn't at least chuckle once. My son just ate popcorn and never laughed. This kids movie had podcast, email, spam, headphones, and laptop jokes. What was the writer or writers of this movie thinking? Every actor involved had to be in it for the paycheck. James Corden probably needs the paycheck but Kurt Russell? Kurt Russell is my favorite actor and I can't believe he is apart of this garbage movie. To quote Jeremy Jahns "You will forget this movie in T-minus one day." Don't bother going to the theater, don't bother renting it, and don't even bother streaming it.

The original smurfs cartoon from the 1980's had heart, soul, magic and a whole lot of substance, this one is just useless and it continues the downward spiral started in season 9 and continues onward ever since, now rihanna is a good singer, but she is wrong for voicing smurfette, she adds absolutely nothing new to the character, although there some good scenes, the rest are completely atrocious and doesn't have any of the charm nor heart of the original peyo clifford comic strip nor hanna barbera cartoons, the screenplay is completely woeful, it completely missed the opportunity of the charm, the writing is just pitiful, i will stick with the 1980's saturday morning cartoon version from nbc instead, this thing is just pathetic.

Thumbs way down.