Yesterday, video and photographic evidence of the Smurfs movie was released, and we’re glad to see that New York City, the Beat’s hometown, is once again the setting for the deeply profound story of alien-in-America and what we can learn about ourselves and others, especially when the others are small and blue.
I can’t decide which makes me sadder: the use of “Wild Thang” in relation to the trailer or the fact that their movie’s URL is a “shit happens” pun.
I know; it’s sad. On the bright side NBM is going to start replubishing those Smurfs books this fall!
I don’t know… I just don’t know.
But perhaps this will answer the age-old question.
Just what the hell is under those Smurf caps?
This IS a joke right? Funny, funny joke. Like that Marmaduke trailer going around earlier this year. I mean with the dumb jokes, the use of Wild Thing, the bad CGI, obviously it’s not a real film.
Right?
Did we really expect a “live action” Smurfs movie to be good?
A few weeks ago I saw them filming outside the Housing Works bookstore just south of Houston: they’d put up temporary signage and window displays to turn it into a toy shop.
I hung around waiting for a while to see if Danny Devito painted blue and stripped to his skivvies was going to make an appearance, but he didn’t show.
So it’s another movie made by a group of marketing executives, wooo.
I’m disappointed because my ideal Smurf live action movie would be high fantasy. Like Lord of the Rings with Smurfs instead of Hobbits.
I do love the Smurfs, but… that is NOT the Smurfs. Oh well. I’m really looking forward to the upcoming book collections. The old editions are really expensive used.
Movies like this make me glad I don’t have kids. Thus I’m allowed to happily ignore their existence.
Filming in Huston? Talk about runaway production.
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