Smurfs, The : Movie Review


The Smurfs smurfs. It's one of the smurfiest smurfing smurfs you will ever waste your smurfing money on. If you are under the age of eight, you will think you've rediscovered candy. Everything here is geared toward you and your younger siblings laughing your smurfing heads off. As for the rest of the over nine demo -- prepare to see your childhood pass weakly before your eyes. Whatever charm or quaint benevolence the Belgian cartoon figures used to have has been scrubbed clean by a Hollywood who knows how to hammer out the hackneyed hit material. So out goes all the fun, in comes all the formula. By the end, the obnoxious Alvin and the Chipmunks starts to look like a stroke of genius.

The Smurfs smurfs. It's one of the smurfiest smurfing smurfs you will ever waste your smurfing money on. If you are under the age of eight, you will think you've rediscovered candy. Everything here is geared toward you and your younger siblings laughing your smurfing heads off. As for the rest of the over nine demo -- prepare to see your childhood pass weakly before your eyes. Whatever charm or quaint benevolence the Belgian cartoon figures used to have has been scrubbed clean by a Hollywood who knows how to hammer out the hackneyed hit material. So out goes all the fun, in comes all the formula. By the end, the obnoxious Alvin and the Chipmunks starts to look like a stroke of genius.

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Author : Bill Gibron