I went to see this with my daughter on her seventh birthday and brought my girlfriend as well. I own several of the old comics by Peyo, which I have read to my daughter, and neither of us have seen the other two movies.
First off, the movie is very quick paced. Maybe you'd like to enjoy the fantastic realm of the smurfs, but there's no real time for that. Maybe you'd like to know more about their mushroom houses and how the smurf village works, well, you get 30 seconds of that combined, and off we go into the very simple and predictable story.
I wasn't impressed with the visuals. They were standard, clearly below Disney/Pixar quality. Several of the characters and animals looked like stock visuals, like the studio rushed the design. Completely forgettable. The dialogue was dubbed into our language, and they did a fine job with what they had, which wasn't really anything.
My daughter laughed once during the entire movie, later said it was kinda boring. My girlfriend cringed at the female empowerment theme, clearly aimed at children and immature adult females. You know how the old Disney movies are filled with females who have to be saved by the prince? In these new movies they make the prince stupid so he can be equal to the stupid princess. A lower sense of equality for everyone.
The original smurf comics had so much to offer. They handled racism and dictatorship and threw in some adventure bits too. Some of the characters like Old Smurf had a deeper side. In this he was shallow and uncharacteristically stupid. This to me was a cash in.
Pro tip: Look at the reviews giving 10/10. Then check the users. Notice a pattern regarding the time those user were created? Yeah, soon as the movie came out, same time as they got paid.
First off, the movie is very quick paced. Maybe you'd like to enjoy the fantastic realm of the smurfs, but there's no real time for that. Maybe you'd like to know more about their mushroom houses and how the smurf village works, well, you get 30 seconds of that combined, and off we go into the very simple and predictable story.
I wasn't impressed with the visuals. They were standard, clearly below Disney/Pixar quality. Several of the characters and animals looked like stock visuals, like the studio rushed the design. Completely forgettable. The dialogue was dubbed into our language, and they did a fine job with what they had, which wasn't really anything.
My daughter laughed once during the entire movie, later said it was kinda boring. My girlfriend cringed at the female empowerment theme, clearly aimed at children and immature adult females. You know how the old Disney movies are filled with females who have to be saved by the prince? In these new movies they make the prince stupid so he can be equal to the stupid princess. A lower sense of equality for everyone.
The original smurf comics had so much to offer. They handled racism and dictatorship and threw in some adventure bits too. Some of the characters like Old Smurf had a deeper side. In this he was shallow and uncharacteristically stupid. This to me was a cash in.
Pro tip: Look at the reviews giving 10/10. Then check the users. Notice a pattern regarding the time those user were created? Yeah, soon as the movie came out, same time as they got paid.