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Shadow
07-30-2011, 09:28 AM
I remember the cartoons from the 80's then when my youngest was bout 2/3 they made a comeback and she was totally into them then.



I hope this movie isn't as bad as the article says...my kids and I are going to see it this weekend. Dragged me to the Chipmunk movies too...which I actually thought were kinda funny (the first one moreso though). Hopefully I will be plesantly suprised with this one too. But seriously how much does one really expect from a Smurf Movie anyway? Anyone seen it?



Shocker: Smurfs Ripped by Critics


This probably isn't going to come as much of a shock: "The Smurfs" is not a critical darling. The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/smurfs-film-review-216564)'s Michael Rechtshaffen gets right to the point, calling the film "numbingly generic." "For all the digitally enhanced Smurfness, the results are remarkably mirthless" and "thoroughly uninspired." The movie serves as proof, Rechtshaffen writes, that "Hollywood seems to have no intention of leaving any '80s pop culture touchstone unturned." What's next? "Where's the Beef: the Movie"?
Keith Staskiewicz of Entertainment Weekly (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20513298,00.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+entertainmentweekly%2Fmovies% 2Freviews+(Entertainment+Weekly%2FEW.com's%3A+Movi e+Reviews)&utm_content=Google+Reader) gives the movie a D+ and writes that it has the stink of a shameless cash-grab full of recycled ideas. He calls the flick "half animated, half live action, and all careful studio calculation." Probably not the kind of pull-quote the studio execs were hoping for.


http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/shocker-smurfs-ripped-critics-181512259.html
ConHog
07-31-2011, 09:47 PM
it was crap, but my daughter and niece (ages 5 and 6) loved it and that's all that really matters.
KartRacerBoy
08-01-2011, 08:42 AM
I have a little sister 11 yrs younger that watched original Smurfs. IIRC, there is a single female Smurf. Damn, that girl must be popular. :lol:

But I can't believe the species would have much of a future. Too much inbreeding.
Shadow
08-01-2011, 09:08 AM
I have a little sister 11 yrs younger that watched original Smurfs. IIRC, there is a single female Smurf. Damn, that girl must be popular. :lol:

But I can't believe the species would have much of a future. Too much inbreeding.

Incorrect. There is also Nanny Smurf and Sassette Smurf.
KartRacerBoy
08-01-2011, 09:32 AM
Incorrect. There is also Nanny Smurf and Sassette Smurf.

Hah! My plan worked. I've successfully outted another Smurf fan!

Did these two females exist in the early TV show or did the new writers create them for the new movie to get past the genetic issues posed by a single female Smurf?
DragonStryk72
08-01-2011, 11:00 AM
I think it would have been better if they hadn't done yet another dreary modern day version of it. It's been done to death, really, and it's not really even funny. I can understand wanting to CG the thing, fine, but would it really have been so horrible to leave it in the fantasy world they existed in?
KartRacerBoy
08-01-2011, 02:05 PM
As I read this thread, my fucking computer has decided I need to see a Smurf movie ad in the header.

I can't tell you how many "Gay Men in South Bend!" ads I've seen in the header. Despite what ConHog thinks, I believe that issue is due to my posting on gay rights threads in this forum cz my personal porn choices all involve "not an entrance" if anal is involved.
Shadow
08-01-2011, 08:19 PM
Hah! My plan worked. I've successfully outted another Smurf fan!

Did these two females exist in the early TV show or did the new writers create them for the new movie to get past the genetic issues posed by a single female Smurf?

They were in the original cartoon series. The boy smurfs snuck into Gargamel's lab and used his spell book to create Sassette,because Smurfette wanted another female smurf to talk to. (Gargamel originally created Smurfette also).

Nanny Smurf apparently had been held captive in a haunted castle for 500 years,and the smurfs found her and rescued her.

At one time my daughter had all of the episodes on tape. And I watched them with her every morning.
KartRacerBoy
08-01-2011, 09:05 PM
They were in the original cartoon series. The boy smurfs snuck into Gargamel's lab and used his spell book to create Sassette,because Smurfette wanted another female smurf to talk to. (Gargamel originally created Smurfette also).

Nanny Smurf apparently had been held captive in a haunted castle for 500 years,and the smurfs found her and rescued her.

At one time my daughter had all of the episodes on tape. And I watched them with her every morning.

:laugh:

You are indeed a loving father. When I was still in college in the 80s, I went to the first Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles movie. Stood next to a mom who was taking her kids to the movie. I was not one of the knowledgable as to Turtle lore so she explained it to me in great detail. We had brought some whiskey so we shared it with her in return.
Shadow
08-02-2011, 09:27 PM
:laugh:

You are indeed a loving father. When I was still in college in the 80s, I went to the first Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles movie. Stood next to a mom who was taking her kids to the movie. I was not one of the knowledgable as to Turtle lore so she explained it to me in great detail. We had brought some whiskey so we shared it with her in return.

It's a crapshoot. Sometimes it works out well...Bedtime Stories...other's times it's torture...Adventures of a Wimpy Kid (zzzzz). Maybe next time I will take whiskey along and it will help.:thumb:
Shadow
08-08-2011, 09:04 AM
Ooooh Smurf fans...they are selling happy meals with smurf toys this week. You know you want them. :laugh2: