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La Flûte à six schtroumpfs

Original title: La flûte à six schtroumpfs
  • 1975
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  • 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
1.6K
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La Flûte à six schtroumpfs (1975)
AnimationComedyFamilyFantasyMusicMusical

A villain named McCreep steals the Smurfs' magic flute, an instrument that makes people dance wildly, and uses it to rob them. The Smurf King sends out Peewit to track down the thief and ret... Read allA villain named McCreep steals the Smurfs' magic flute, an instrument that makes people dance wildly, and uses it to rob them. The Smurf King sends out Peewit to track down the thief and retrieve the flute.A villain named McCreep steals the Smurfs' magic flute, an instrument that makes people dance wildly, and uses it to rob them. The Smurf King sends out Peewit to track down the thief and retrieve the flute.

  • Director
    • Peyo
  • Writers
    • Peyo
    • Yvan Delporte
  • Stars
    • Georges Atlas
    • Jacques Balutin
    • Angelo Bardi
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    1.6K
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    • Director
      • Peyo
    • Writers
      • Peyo
      • Yvan Delporte
    • Stars
      • Georges Atlas
      • Jacques Balutin
      • Angelo Bardi
    • 18User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    Georges Atlas
    • Sénéchal
    • (voice)
    Jacques Balutin
    • Le buveur
    • (voice)
    Angelo Bardi
    • Le marchand
    • (voice)
    • (as Angélo Bardi)
    Jacques Ciron
    • Le visiteur
    • (voice)
    William Coryn
    William Coryn
    • Johan
    • (voice)
    Henri Crémieux
    Henri Crémieux
    • Homnibus
    • (voice)
    • (as Henri Cremieux)
    Roger Crouzet
    • Schtroumpf #2
    • (voice)
    Jacques Dynam
    Jacques Dynam
    • Mortaille
    • (voice)
    Michel Elias
    • Le grand Schtroumpf
    • (voice)
    Ginette Garcin
    Ginette Garcin
    • Dame Barde
    • (voice)
    Henri Labussière
    • Le pêcheur
    • (voice)
    • (as Henri Labussiere)
    Jacques Marin
    Jacques Marin
    • Schtroumpf-Fête
    • (voice)
    Albert Médina
    • Torchesac
    • (voice)
    • (as Albert Medina)
    Michel Modo
    Michel Modo
    • Pirlouit
    • (voice)
    Georges Pradez
    • Le roi
    • (voice)
    Serge Nadaud
    • Le garde
    • (voice)
    • …
    Jacques Ruisseau
    Jacques Ruisseau
    • Schtroumpf #1
    • (voice)
    Ed Devereaux
    Ed Devereaux
      • Director
        • Peyo
      • Writers
        • Peyo
        • Yvan Delporte
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      mcfly-31

      still fun years later

      Though only 17 years since I've known of it, I thought I'd commemorate the 25th(!) anniversary of the film by revisiting my childhood memories of it. Being a kid of the 80's, the Smurfs was one of the cartoons I grew up on. Apparrently they've been around since the late 50's and made it to the big screen in 1976 with this Belgium feature. I still remember saying "Mom, why are their voices different than on the tv show?" Today is still puzzles me. If this was dubbed for American audiences two years after the show premiered, why did they not go with the tv voices? Still don't know. And also, the voices we do get all seem to be echoing somewhat, with the exception of Papa Smurf. And there is no Smurfette. Or Gargamuel. Or Azreal. But it doesn't hurt the film at all, as the Smurfs are secondary anyway. They don't even show up until 25 minutes in! And aren't even really seen until 35 minutes in! But when the Land of the Smurfs is reached, it's guilty pleasure time, for me at least. The three dopey songs featured are somehow extremely catchy. The one explaining how the Smurfs tell each other apart. Then later it's human character Pee-Wee trying to make out the Smurf language. Capped off by "We're the Smurfs, la, la!" The main story concerns the title instrument, which makes people dance upon hearing it. It's stolen by a villian named McCreep, who robs people by playing the flute, which causes them to be unable to defend themselves. They dance about and he makes off with their gold. The flute was created by the Smurfs, so a prince and a short, excitable musician from a royal court are recruited in tracking down the Smurfs for help. Harmless fun for kids, and I still get a kick out of it today. The animation if fair for a 25 year old movie, as the real star for me was Pee-Wee. So, give it a shot for youngsters or have fun taking yourself back in seeing it for the first time in awhile.
      10joanman

      Great movie

      Hello from Barcelona. Yes, this is a great movie. The smurfs don't appear until minute 35 or so but never mind. Johan and Pewee characters are lovely and we know they will meet smurfs later so never mind. The film is 74 minutes long, not 89. Michel Legrand songs are really beautiful and brilliant. All children will love this film and many not so children... Smurfs are drawn much better than the terrific Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows. Here they are just smurfs as they must be, not some kind of bad project bad drown and with no gracefulness. We see Peyo WAS in this movie. If you know the book of this film then you must watch this it. I wonder why it doesn't exist on DVD. There are some smurfs official DVD's in France but this movie is not available yet and I don't understand why if this is the only smurf film ever. I think you can find it in USA, UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Netherlands, but always in VHS format. In some countries it is long deleted since lots of years ago but easy to find in eBAY for example. It's nearly impossible to find in Spain 'cause it was only for rent. In Catalonia there are the catalan version which is just adorable. So...we want this movie on DVD today!! And you must watch it right now!! Joan from Barcelona
      alv790

      The smurfs are not really the main characters here

      With this title, you would expect the movie to be about the smurfs, but in fact they only appear in the second half of the movie. The actual main characters are Johan and Pirlouit, the heroes of a different comic book series by the same creator (Peyo), which are much less well-known internationally. In fact the English dubs renames them as a generic John and William. I gather this was the first appearance in film of the smurfs, and they were not yet famous. Anyway, this was a decent movie that never trascended its target audience. Little kids should enjoy it, but for adults it does not have much to offer, although certain moments and details are funny, and it has decent songs and animation. I did enjoy Johan and Pirlouit more than the smurfs, who are tiny and cute but a bit tiresome with their insistence of substituting every verb with "smurf" when they speak.
      lor_

      Subpar animation for the kiddies

      My review was written in February 1984 after a Times Square screening.

      "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute" is an uninteresting but innocuous animated feature film bringing the popular hit of books, tv and merchandising, the Smurfs (or "Schtroumpfs" as they were originally known in parts of Europe) to the big screen. Its success in U. S. distribution just before the last Christmas season is more a testament to effective marketing and a vacuum of new, G-rated product than to the virtues of the film itself.

      Weak, episodic storyline, set in the Middle Ages, has a bandit named Oilycreep stealing the magic flute (which has the power to cause people to dance uncontrollably when it is played) from Pee Wee at the king's castle. Pee Wee, whose dubbed voice vaguely resembles that of comic Pee Wee Herman, sets out on a dull trek with his pal Johan to retrieve the magical instrument.

      Hypnotized by a friendly wizard, the twosome are transported to the land of the Smurfs, tiny blue creatures who all look alike and wear white hats and pants, except for their 542-year-old leader Papa Smurf, whose hat and pants are red. The Smurfs fabricate a second magic flute for Pee Wee, who ultimately bests Oilycreep in a final reel musical battle. Film has no relationship to Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute".

      Despite their billing and title come-on, the Smurfs do not appear (save for a tiny blue hand entering the frame at one point) until the second half of the film. A defensive song designed to demonstrate hw individual Smurfs act like their names only proves that the character animation here lacks the differentiation of say, Disney's Seven Dwarfs.

      The film utilizes rather limited animation techniques, with pretty but strictly static backgrounds against which the characters move. Absence of much fantasy material is disappointing and the labored gags aren't funny. The Smurfs themselves have irritating resonant voices and the premise of substituting the word "Smurf" for nouns and verbs in their language is run into the ground. Michel Legrand's soundtrack score (to which additional music has been added for the U. S. release version) is subpar.
      7capone666

      The Vidiot Reviews...

      The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

      Earning money with a musical instrument is possible on the right subway platform.

      Mind you, the musician in this animated movie is making money through magic.

      When the king's jester Peewit (Cameron Clarke) gets a hold of a magical flute that can make people spontaneously dance when played, he attracts the attention of a merchant McCreep (Mike Reynolds), who steals the wind instrument to rob villagers.

      Now, Peewit and a knight's squire named Johan must use a wizard's spell in order to convene with the mystical blue-skinned forest creatures that first forged the flute if they hope to change McCreep's tune.

      Written and directed by the Smurf's creator Peyo, this 1976 hand-drawn feature from Belgium set the standard of what would go on to become the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon phenomenon; mostly because it feels like three episodes pieced together.

      Incidentally, when Smurf's hear the magic flute played they turn rabid.

      Green Light

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      • Trivia
        "La flûte à six schtroumpfs" is not the first adaptation of Peyo's "Smurfs" comics, theatrical or otherwise. In the early 1960s, T.V.A. Dupuis produced several black & white animated shorts, adapted faithfully from the comics, for Belgian television. In 1965, 5 of these shorts were collected into a theatrical compilation film titled Les aventures des Schtroumpfs (1965). While the film itself has been scarcely seen since its original release, some of the original TV shorts can be seen on display at the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels.
      • Quotes

        Peewit: I'm so sick!

        Le grand Schtroumpf: Peewit, be brave. You'll soon feel better.

        Brainy Smurf: Hopefully you weren't foolish enough to eat bad food. Like strawberries with onions and tuna.

      • Connections
        Featured in Michel Legrand: Sans demi-mesure (2018)
      • Soundtracks
        La Flûte à Six Schtroumpfs
        ("The Flute With Six Smurfs")

        (The film's instrumental theme music; used in the main title sequence, in the scene where Johan and Peewit follow a Smurf to the Land of Smurfs, and the ending credits)

        Music by Michel Legrand

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      • Release date
        • January 21, 1976 (France)
      • Countries of origin
        • France
        • Belgium
      • Languages
        • English
        • French
      • Also known as
        • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
      • Production companies
        • Belvision
        • Dupuis Audiovisuel
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      • Gross US & Canada
        • $11,234,220
      • Gross worldwide
        • $11,234,220
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      Tech specs

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      • Runtime
        • 1h 11m(71 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
        • Dolby
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.85 : 1

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