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The Smurfs is a 2011 American fantasy adventure comedy film based on the comic series of the same name created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo. It was directed by Raja Gosnell and stars Neil Patrick Harris , Jayma Mays , Sofía Vergara and Hank Azaria , with the voices of Jonathan Winters , Katy Perry , George Lopez , Anton Yelchin , Fred ...
The Smurfs: Directed by Raja Gosnell. With Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Raja Gosnell
- 2011-07-29
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- Raja Gosnell
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The Smurfs (2011) The Smurfs is a 2011 live-action/animated comedy film and the first CGI film in the series and was directed by Raja Gosnell. In their race to escape the malevolent wizard Gargamel, the little blue forest dwellers find themselves suddenly transported to Central Park.
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As the Smurfs get ready for the Blue Moon Festival, Papa Smurf sees in his cauldron a vision of Clumsy Smurf reaching for a dragon wand and the evil wizard Gargamel capturing him. Not wanting this vision to come true, Papa disallows Clumsy Smurf to pick smurfroot. Clumsy disobeys Papa and ends up unintentionally leading Gargamel and his pet cat Azr...
Live action actors
1. Hank Azaria as Gargamel, the nemesis of the Smurfs who plots to use the Smurfs as part of a spell which would turn lead into gold. As opposed to the television show where Gargamel's goal is to use the Smurfs as the key ingredient in an alchemical formula to create gold or eat them or destroy them, in the film he wants to capture them to serve as charms, "whose mystical essence will make his inept magic more powerful — and dangerous". To look the part of Gargamel, Azaria wore a prosthetic n...
Voice actors
1. Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf, the leader of the Smurfs. Winters previously provided the voice of Grandpa Smurf in the 1980s cartoon series. He and Frank Welker are the only original cast members from the TV series who returned for the film. 2. Katy Perry as Smurfette, the female of the Smurfs. About gaining the voice role, Perry said: "They had done a blind test where they took certain voices from previous interviews and matched them with the character. They liked my voice without even k...
Development
In 1997, producer Jordan Kerner sent the first "of a series of letters" to The Smurfs' licensing agent Lafig Belgium expressing interest in making a feature film. It was not until 2002 after a draft of Kerner's film adaptation of Charlotte's Web was read by Peyo's heirs, that they accepted Kerner's offer. Peyo's daughter Véronique Culliford and family had wanted to make a Smurfs film for years and said that Kerner was the first person to pitch a film that shared their "vision and enthusiasm"....
Filming and animation
On a budget of $110 million, principal photography began in New York City on March 26, 2010. In May, scenes were filmed in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. That month, scenes were shot all night for five nights in a row at F.A.O. Schwartz toy store. Production was temporarily halted after a worker fell 30 feet from a set at the toy store on Fifth Avenue and 58th Street; he later recovered in a hospital. Other locations used for filming were Belvedere Castle, the Russian Tea Room, Rockefeller Ce...
The film had its worldwide premiere on June 16, 2011, in Júzcar, a small village in Spain. To celebrate the release, the residents painted entire village, including church and other historical buildings in blue. Twelve local painters used 4,000 litres of blue to transform traditionally white Júzcar into the world's first Smurf Village.Although Sony...
Box office
The Smurfs grossed $142.6 million in the United States and Canada, along with $421.1 million in foreign markets, for a worldwide total of $563.7 million. Documents from the Sony Pictures hackrevealed the film turned a profit of $83 million. The film opened on approximately 5,300 screens at 3,395 locations, with 2,042 locations being 3D-enabled theaters. On July 28, 2011, Exhibitor Relations predicted The Smurfs would rank third its opening weekend with $24 million, but analyst Jeff Bock added...
Critical reception
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 21% of 117 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.01/10. The site's critical consensus states, "The Smurfs assembles an undeniably talented cast of voice actors and live-action stars—then crushes them beneath a blue mound of lowest-common-denominator kiddie fare." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 30 based on 22 rev...
Accolades
NewNowNext Awards 1. Next Must See Movie (Nominated) 38th People's Choice Awards 1. Favorite Animated Movie Voice: Katy Perry(Nominated) 2012 Kids' Choice Awards 1. Favorite Movie (Nominated) 2. Favorite Movie Actress: Sofia Vergara(Nominated) 3. Favorite Voice in an Animated Film: Katy Perry(Won)
The Smurfs, a Nintendo DS video gamewas released on July 19, 2011.The Smurfs 2
A sequel, titled The Smurfs 2, was released on July 31, 2013. Director Raja Gosnell and producer Jordan Kerner returned, along with all the main cast. New cast includes Christina Ricci, J. B. Smoove, and Brendan Gleeson. In the sequel, Gargamel creates a couple of evil Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties to harness the magical Smurf-essence.When he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants and that only Smurfette can turn the Naughties into the real Smurfs, Gargamel ki...
Cancelled third film and reboot
On May 10, 2012, two weeks after Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation announced production of The Smurfs 2, Variety reported that writers Karey Kirkpatrick and Chris Poche were developing a script for The Smurfs 3, which was set for release on July 24, 2015, and later rescheduled for August 14, 2015. In March 2014, Sony announced that it will reboot the series with a completely computer-animated film. Directed by Kelly Asbury, the reboot titled Smurfs: The Lost Village, was released...
Cendrowicz, Leo (January 15, 2008). "The Smurfs Are Off to Conquer the World — Again". Time. Time Inc. Archivedfrom the original on October 21, 2011.Lichfield, John (2008). Happy Smurfday to the elves you love or hate. 6872. Independent News & Media Limited. p. 27.The Smurfs on IMDbThe Smurfs at The Big Cartoon DataBaseThe Smurfs at AllMovieThe Smurfs is a live action/3D CGI animated movie developed by Sony Pictures Animation and The Kerner Entertainment Company, which was released in theaters on July 29, 2011. It is the first feature to take place in the Smurfs Live-Action Film Universe. Sony Pictures originally had plans for two...
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Only three apples high and lost in the Big Apple, the Smurfs (Jonathan Winters, Alan Cumming, Katy Perry) must find a way back to their world before Gargamel tracks them down.
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- Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
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