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Smurfs: The Lost Village: Directed by Kelly Asbury. With Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, Joe Manganiello, Jack McBrayer. A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest, leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
- Kelly Asbury
- 2 min
Rated 5/5 Stars • 10/17/23. Rated 5/5 Stars • 10/18/23. Kelly Asbury. Director. Dino Soutis. Voice. Christos Thanos. Voice. Chrysa Diamantopoulou.
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- Kelly Asbury
- PG
- Kerner Entertainment
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Apr 7, 2017 · It gets the Smurf job done. When the brain trust at Sony Pictures Animation decided a few years ago that the Smurfs, the unremittingly chipper cartoon creations of the Belgian artist known as Peyo, were worthy of the big-screen treatment, they made the inexplicable decision to present both “The Smurfs” (2011) and “The Smurfs 2” (2013) as live-action/animation hybrids.
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is the name of the Smurfs film by Sony Pictures Animation that has been released on April 7, 2017. Unlike the previous two films based on the Smurfs by this company, this new film is completely CGI-animated. Kelly Asbury (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, and Gnomeo & Juliet) is the director, while Jordan Kerner (The Smurfs) and Mary Ellen...
•Smurfette
•Gargamel
•Hefty Smurf
•Brainy Smurf
•Clumsy Smurf
•Papa Smurf
Best friends Smurfette, Brainy, Clumsy, and Hefty use a special map that guides them through the Forbidden Forest, an enchanted wonderland that's filled with magical creatures. Their adventure leads them on a course to discover the biggest secret in Smurf history as they race against time and the evil wizard Gargamel to find a mysterious village.
As the story begins, Smurfette begins to wonder what her purpose in life is, as do the other Smurfs who couldn't particularly define what a Smurfette is supposed to be. Brainy tries to use a special Smurfy Thing Finder that he has invented to discover what Smurfette was purposed for, but unfortunately it explodes when tested on her, leaving Smurfette and the other Smurfs with no answers.
Deciding to take their minds off their lack of discovering her purpose, Smurfette along with Brainy, Hefty, and Clumsy go off testing their skills with smurfboarding in the forest. During her run, though, Smurfette lands near the wall separating the Smurf Forest from the Forbidden Forest and discovers what appeared to be a Smurf masked in leaves and other wild clothes, who ran away from Smurfette before she could discover who that Smurf was, although that Smurf dropped a yellow Smurf hat behind.
Soon, however, Smurfette finds herself captured by Monty, the pet vulture of Gargamel the evil wizard, who sought after capturing the Smurfs so he could use their essence to make himself the most powerful wizard in the world. While Gargamel couldn't use Smurfette for her Smurf essence given that she wasn't a real Smurf, he still held her captive and had her give up the yellow Smurf hat she was carrying. Through the magic cauldron, Gargamel discovered that there was another group of Smurfs that was hidden in a location next to three tall trees in the Forbidden Forest.
Soon enough, Hefty, Brainy, and Clumsy sneak their way into Gargamel's castle when they discover that Smurfette was missing and try to rescue her themselves, only to find themselves captured by Gargamel. They eventually make their escape back to the village, only to find themselves face to face with an angry Papa Smurf who decides that he was going to punish the four Smurfs by grounding them. Before any of her three friends could object, Smurfette steps forward and agrees in accepting Papa Smurf's punishment, shooing herself and her three friends out of Papa Smurf's house before he could say anything more.
That night, Smurfette steals away from the village in the hope of finding that mysterious Smurf she saw near the Forbidden Forest, only to find herself being followed by Hefty, Brainy, and Clumsy, who decide to join her on her quest simply because they are Team Smurf. Smurfette allows them to come with her, and so they enter the Forbidden Forest, where they encounter Smurf-eating plants, fire-breathing dragonflies, and glowing fluorescent rabbits. But they also encounter Gargamel and Azrael also heading in the same direction, so they try to keep him off their trail for as long as possible.
Eventually, though, Smurfette and her friends find themselves captured by a group of Smurf-like beings dressed in leaves and wild clothes, who reveal themselves to be female Smurfs living in a village of their own called Smurfy Grove, being led by a white-haired female Smurf named Smurfwillow. The Smurf Girls treat their visitors with utmost care, although Smurfstorm suspects that Smurfette has other purposes in mind.
•Demi Lovato as Smurfette
•Rainn Wilson as Gargamel
•Mandy Patinkin as Papa Smurf
•Joe Manganiello as Hefty
•Jack McBrayer as Clumsy
•Danny Pudi as Brainy
Themes
The central theme of Smurfs: The Lost Village is Smurfette’s "lack" of an identity - or rather her incomplete understanding of who she is. The rest of the Smurfs are defined by what they do or by a key element of their personality like Brainy or Clumsy. Although Smurfette is a member of the village, the rest of the Smurfs don’t know what a Smurfette is. Papa Smurf puts it this way: "Smurfette’s name doesn’t tell us anything about her. It doesn’t tell us who she is or what she does", which puts out the theme of how you're defined not by what you do, but by who you are. The power of teamwork was also huge theme in the film. In the first half of the film the boy and girl Smurfs are very focused on their differences. Yet, in the end they are able to put their differences aside and come together to save each other and fight their enemy. Another major theme is the power of friendship. Smurfette is joined by her best friends on this grand adventure. Along the way, their friendship is put to the test. Ultimately, it is their deep bond that gives Smurfette the strength to do what she must to fulfill her true destiny.
Software Usage
In search of the lost village, Smurfette, Hefty, Brainy, and Clumsy encounter a magical river that hurtles them downstream. But this river is different: it levitates above the ground. The process of building the river began in animation. “They had a rig which was basically just tubes,” explains Spencer Lueders, "and they would set the size of the tubes, the length of them, and then they were able to animate them moving around as they saw fit." Once that animation was approved, the tubes would be sent to the FX department at Imageworks. Lueders was then able to extract the parametric detail of the tubes in order to get the direction they were flowing. That meant the system would know which way the river was flowing, after which artists could create some vectors off the tubes that would define the gravity. Another element - and another challenge - was the bioluminescence element of the ribbon of water. This gave the river a magical quality. It was achieved with invected particles that were invected using the velocity field from the original FLIP sims, but they also had emissive properties to provide purples and greens and blues. Team Smurf also passes through a multitude of vegetation. That was modeled in 3D, with Houdini used to propagate the foliage and trees and other vegetation. "Basically," describes Lueders, "we used various point clouds, and we would import the terrain that we would get from the modeling department and then we would be able to paint where we wanted grassy patches or clovers, moss mounds, things like that."
Character Development
In earlier concept art, orange hair was considered for a couple of the Smurf Girls. At a later point in production, the girls' general designs for the primarily featured girls were overhauled a number of times as well. Storm did not have a clover on her hat or her pack of bow and arrows, Blossom's flower on her hat was smaller and was yellow with white petals, and Willow had a longer dress and a necklace instead of a vest. Lily's design was mostly unchanged from production, with the only notable difference being that her flower on her hat was smaller and yellow. Monty's design was overhauled various times as well. At one point in development, he was female. When that decision was abandoned, he was turned into a dragon, and his earlier features included having a longer tail. At a later point in production, he resembled his final design and was changed back into a bird, but he had a blue beak.
Movie Songs
1.It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers 2.Careless Whisper 3.Here It Comes Now - Brothers and Sisters 4.Heroes (We Could Be) - Alesso (featuring Tove Lo) 5.Delirious (Boneless) - Steve Aoki, Chris Lake, & Tujamo (featuring Kid Ink) 6.Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65 7.You Will Always Find Me in Your Heart - Shaley Scott 8.I'm a Lady - Meghan Trainor
•This is the first time Sony Pictures Animation releases three films in the same year, while the other films are The Emoji Movie and The Star.
•This is the first film in the Smurfs series not to be released in July.
•This film earned tepid reviews from critics, and although it has done quite well overseas, it has failed to make any traction in America. In the United States, it opened alongside Going in Style and The Case for Christ and was projected to gross around $16–20 million in the opening weekend from 3,602 theaters. It ended up opening to $13.2 million, marking the lowest debut of the Smurfs franchise and finishing 3rd at the box office.
•In addition, this film turned out to be the last film of the Sony Pictures Animation Smurf franchise, as it was the consequence of the sub-franchise intending to be part of the original lineup of the trilogy films to begin with. Although, it was shortly announced four months after the film's release that the umbrella franchise would be getting a new animated series which would happen four years after The Lost Village's release. Likewise, SPA's rights to the Smurfs property expired by the time the 2021 series entered production, as Nickelodeon gained the licensing rights to the franchise in six countries (among them the US and Canada) the previous year, aired said series on its channel in the US, and would put another Smurfs movie in production with corporate sibling Paramount (which initially had the film rights to the franchise before Sony took over) in 2022.
•When Farmer is trying to explain what a Smurfette is, the King Smurf scarecrow can be seen in the background.
•The design for the snail that appears in the very beginning of the movie is developed into the ones seen in the 2021 TV series.
Mar 26, 2017 · The Smurfs’ arch-nemesis, the evil wizard Gargamel (Rainn Wilson), and his feline and avian underlings are in hot pursuit, as is the concerned Papa Smurf (Mandy Patinkin).The Smurfs ...
Apr 7, 2017 · 60. Written by Reno on August 18, 2017. In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
