First, created by a Belgium cartoonist 40 years ago, the little magical blue people make it to the big screen. Sadly, my viewing of this feature was interrupted by the screaming of all the scared under-2's. The film starts off with "Narrator Smurf" (all the names are based on their personalities or habits) telling us to imagine a land "with no sadness," already, I was wondering, oh help, me. Hank Azaria comes in as the bumbling oaf of a baddie as Gargamel, the stupid sorcerer who chases the poor little Smurfs into a magic portal, only the main characters of course, that includes the likes of singer Katy Perry, who has several puns, based on her songs, "I kissed a Smurf and I liked it." It's a good summer holidays film, released a wee bit too late for the under 5's but no one older than that. Surprisingly the fact that Perry is in the movie also draws a crowd of teen's but there's no point, she just plays, basically the only girl in the movie. How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris stars as Patrick, a New York guy who works in a cosmetics company and is about to get a promotion. He and his pregnant wife, Jayma Mays of Glee fame accidentally receive the burden of the little blue people and must save them from Gargamel and his cackling cat, Azrael played by voice actor, Frank Welker. Good for the kids, but no one else.
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