Smurfs

Omg I didn’t think I was really going to like it that much but this was hella peak and I’m not lying I will always defend Smurf’s :clap_tone2:

Overall the movie was pretty good length wise, animation wise, music wise, voice acting was all good. The music in the movie fit it very well, the movie also had a soundtrack which was nice. The voice actors were played by artists which was cool to see like Rihanna, Marshmello and DJ Snake all had voice acting roles, overall felt like the movie length was good it fit in a good story. The animation of the movie felt like a Pixar movie with the fact it was complex so praise to the animators for that as well

Weird how there were almost no Smurfing in a Smurf move..

I always wanted a Smurf movie that was an epic fantasy adventure. 4 movies in and not really reached the level I pictured as a kid. Though yeah Hollywood will make a Lord Of Rings level Smurfs movie.
Especially these days where they had the Smurfs magically transported to New York City and Parus. The 3rd movie at least kept the Smurfs in Smurf village and their own reality.
The short film exclusives based on the live action films. Smurfs Christmas Carol and the Legend of Smurfy Hollow. Are the Smurfiest and the most like the original show.
With that said despite being apprehensive after the first trailer showed magically transported to the real world. With that said this is another animated Smurfs film far better than the live action movies.
The Smurfs are yes magically transported to the real world but not through the whole movie at least. It is surprisingly a decent Smurf movie despite the awful reviews.
The singing scenes are just cringe and forgettable.

BOYCOTT PARAMOUNT: But… Damn You, Gargamel, You Magnificent Metaphor

So here we are. I broke the boycott. Or rather, the boycott broke me. I watched The Smurfs (2025), a release by the increasingly disgraced Paramount Animation—the very same corporate puppet theater that canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for daring to have a spine. And I sat there, popcorn in hand, fully prepared to sneer.

And then Gargamel showed up.

Let me be perfectly clear: Gargamel is Steven Miller. Not “inspired by,” not “reminiscent of.” He is Steven Miller—the bony-cheeked architect of America’s most shameful immigration policies—reimagined here as a bumbling, big-nosed sorcerer whose evil vortex sweeps Smurfs from their homes and imprisons them without warning. Sound familiar? ICE raids, concentration camps, ghosted neighbors… Gargamel’s magical vortex might as well be titled “Operation Homeland Harmony.”

The resemblance is so uncanny, so grotesquely accurate, I nearly choked on a blue M&M. I even captured scenes, frame by frame, with my phone, documenting Miller’s every twitch reborn in animation. This was not subtle. This was seditious.

And so, a funny thing happened. What began as an act of resistance turned into an act of recognition—not for Paramount the Corporation (may its boardroom be forever haunted by bad Q2 reports), but for the hundreds of artists and technicians still working under its banner, who, in this quiet, beautiful, Smurfy rebellion, managed to get a few shots in.

Take the musical score. Henry Jackman, a composer I had shamefully overlooked until now, delivers a masterclass in modern scoring. Not content to coast on the limp hip-hop rework of the original Smurfs theme (a decision so aggressively off-brand it may have been sabotage), Jackman instead plants heartful orchestrations throughout, including a spine-tingling quotation of The Last Starfighter theme—yes, that one—from a time when heroes were earnest, and composers were gods.

It’s clear Jackman remembers. And his score gently, beautifully insists that we remember too.

The plot itself, centered on a lost Smurf who doesn’t yet know his name or place in the world, could easily have drifted into syrup. But it’s in the Smurfs’ climactic act of singing the original theme together, restoring harmony and memory, that the film finds its soul. Kindness becomes the spell that undoes tyranny. Music becomes the revolution.

Yes, it’s a kids’ film. But you know what? So was WALL·E. So was Zootopia. And now, The Smurfs (2025) joins the ranks of subversive bedtime stories.

So here’s the review in a nutshell: BOYCOTT PARAMOUNT—and while you’re at it, go see The Smurfs. Not because Paramount deserves your money. They don’t. But because the resistance is alive inside the machine. And sometimes the clearest cry against fascism comes not from the barricades, but from a village of blue idealists singing in harmony.

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Hahaha. They gave Gargamel a wig, presumably because his resemblance both in appearance and behavior is so similar to a more modern villain, one STEPHEN MILLER

I was expecting a lot more from these little blue creatures…
But let me tell you what went down 👇

The story is about Papa Smurf going missing after being kidnapped by Gargamel and—plot twist—his brother Razzamel. (Yep, he has a brother now 👀)
Smurfette gathers the gang and sets off on an adventure into the real world to save him. 💥

The movie is animated—and I was genuinely excited for it.
But once I saw it? Major disappointment. 😐

I’ve been a fan since their 2011 and 2013 movies—nostalgic attachment since I was a kid.
The surprise? I thought Rihanna was the lead... but nope—it was James.
And I’ve got a personal rule:
If James shows up in a movie… he ruins it. 😂

The animation?
Not even worth half a dirham.
We’re in an era where visuals should make you say “wow”—not feel like you’re playing PlayStation 2. 😩

The plot? Slow.
The scenes? Lazy.
The movie overall? Pointless, unfortunately.

I tried to like it—not for me, but for my little brother. :child:
He enjoyed the story.
Me? Not at all.

🎬 My rating: 4.5/10
If you’ve got young kids, they might like it.
Otherwise? Save your time

Starts strong but the magic wears off pretty quick. I'm sure 5 year olds will love it, but would be nice to think a little about the adults too. Preferred the original two movies where they go to Earth.

Not terrible nor good.... I slept at the end, but it is watchable.

If it’s an animated movie that sucks, of course, James Corden will be in it.