Adorable and annoying, patently unnecessary yet kinda sweet, "The Smurfs" is a calculated commercial enterprise with little soul but an appreciable amount of heart. As will be familiar to anyone who’s ...

LOS ANGELES – A recent sneak peek into the making of The Smurfs broadened our horizons with regards to those little blue dudes (and one dudette). Yes, the Smurfs in the new live-action-plus-CGI movie ...

Don’t underestimate the power of little blue creatures. Director Raja Gosnell’s “The Smurfs” took the top spot on Friday, beating out “Cowboys & Aliens” on the same day both movies hit theaters ...

"Power Rangers" and "ThunderCats" come and go, but the tiny blue woodland folk of Belgian cartoonist Pierre "Peyo" Culliford are like soccer -- huge worldwide, maybe not so much here. "The Smurfs" ...

Several years back, Saturday Night Live did a fake trailer for a Smurfs miniseries movie, to be aired on NBC. It more or less played as a cash-in on epic movies of the time, much like the recently ...

Right down to the brute functionality of its title, “The Smurfs 2” may be the platonic ideal of a major studio sequel — no markedly better or worse than the first and with just enough difference to ...

First, let us sincerely thank the makers of “Smurfs: The Lost Village’” for what they didn’t do. They didn’t allow any Smurfs to break wind or talk about poop. They didn’t substitute the verb “smurf’” ...

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First, let us sincerely thank the makers of “Smurfs: The Lost Village” for what they didn’t do. They didn’t allow any Smurfs to break wind or talk about poop. They didn’t substitute the verb “smurf” ...