Oh shit! “The Smurfs” are getting all XTREME! and have left their German magic-mushroom forest for New York Cities Times Square, snap!
Ugh, this is your first look at the feature-length live-action adaptation of “The Smurfs” which pretty much looks akin to “Alvin & The Chipmunks” so maybe we shouldn’t groan cause it’s not for our audience or adults at all (though if you read some sites who took this seriously and at face value, you’d think otherwise).
The cast features Hank Azaria as the villain Gargamel, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays and Sofía Vergara as humans, as well as the voices of Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, Anton Yelchin, Paul Reubens, B.J. Novak, George Lopez, Jonathan Winters, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, John Oliver, Jeff Foxworthy, Tim Gunn and Wolfgang Puck.
Directed by Raja Gosnell (the Academy Award winning “Scooby-Doo”), film is evidently “reimagined through computer animation and eventual 3-D projection” (go figure). The trailer hits this Thursday and the film hits theaters July 29, 2011. Update: Trailer has arrived, it’s nothing to look at really. And well, to be honest, it looks godawful, especially the remixed theme song mixed with Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing,” gross.
Look at the stories you are covering… Smurfs, that fucking 300 owl movie… why bother covering this, your site is good and brings a lot of people news about art/indie films. Leave the shitty films to AICN and don't do your site a disservice by giving them press. How many readers are you gaining by having Smurfs news? you are better than that, it will also help shape the kind of personality playlist has as a blog.
As a New Yorker I have to say that the thing that bothers me most about the teaser is that they zoom into the southern tip of Manhattan and then cut to Times Square.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm a New Yorker too and was just about to buy my ticket, but since you've pointed that out I won't ever bother, thank you.
But its in 3D
Raja Gosnell is just such a visionary auteur, and he practically invented "this feels like it had an expiration date of ten years ago" subgenre of family entertainment.
His previous film Beverly Hills Chihuahua was an extremely substantive, meaningful study of class conflict, and I can't wait to see how Gosnell updates this franchise's noted communist sympathies for an America with such a seething contempt of the rich.
This looks great… and in 3D, nonetheless. What's there to complain?