Hey readers!

One by one, the joyful entertainments of our youth have been dragged into the present, covered in a layer of pop-culture sass, and trotted out for our kids to “enjoy”. I
wasn’t expecting The Smurfs to be any different, but was pleasantly surprised to find it highly entertaining, and even heartwarming. It’s a great family movie.
The Smurfs adalah lakonan Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Sofia Vergara and Jayma Mays. Deep in an enchanted Belgian forest lies the small village of the Smurfs, tiny blue creatures who are each named for their unique personality trait or profession (Grouchy, Brainy, and so on).
Despite the fact they seem to constantly get on each others’ nerves, they are so happy and pure in spirit that evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) wants to distill the essence of every last one of them into a magical liquid that will make him all-powerful.
When Clumsy (Anton Yelchin) accidentally leads Gargamel to the village, the Smurfs are forced to find cover. Clumsy and a few of his friends
take a wrong turn and fall into a mysterious vortex which dumps them, and later Gargamel, straight into the middle of New York City. You know, as mysterious Belgian vortexes tend to do.
The wayward Smurfs are discovered and taken in by Patrick and Grace (Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays), a young couple expecting their first child.
Patrick has just been promoted to VP Marketing at a cosmetics company, and has two days to create a killer ad campaign from scratch, an activity complicated by the arrival of the little blue people, who need help to escape Gargamel and return home.
The fish-out-of-water-in-NYC scenario is usually the kind of thing that destroys a concept, but a clever script and earnest performances keep things moving here.
Harris is especially good, playing a nice-at-heart guy frustrated and confused by these strange visitors. His quiet moments with Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters), discussing the joys and fears of parenting, nearly bring a lump to the throat.
There’s still a little of that annoying pop-culture sass (Look! Smurfs playing Guitar Hero!),
but overall The Smurfs is a gentle, funny movie that the whole family can enjoy.
I comment this movie
(3)★★★only.