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Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: WEAK (cg) "...recycles discarded bits from other celluloid Happy Meals like 'Alvin and the Chipmunks,' 'Garfield,' and 'Hop'... all careful studio calculation." (Read the full review...) 71 words, 07/29/11 Scott Bowles, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "Attention, all 4-year-olds reading this review: You're going to love 'The Smurfs'.... Attention, parents of said 4-year-olds: You may want to bring something to read..." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 07/29/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: WEAK (cg) "...the strangely lifelike cuddly creatures will have the stoned persons in the audience 'peaking' about 10 minutes in, and are likely to delight actual children as well." (Read the full review...) 687 words, 07/28/11
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: MODERATE "...a decent enough excuse to haul the little ones into an air-conditioned theater." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 07/29/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "Every other word is 'Smurf': 'Smurf off!,' 'No smurfing way!,' etc. It always sounded strange; now it also sounds self-absorbed." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 07/29/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...more 3-D disaster than family comedy. Even Neil Patrick Harris, who has proved he can save just about any sinking ship, cannot make this boat float." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 07/29/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR (cg) "...relentlessly witless and cynical... packed with potty jokes, product plugs and double-entendres along the lines of 'What the Smurf?' " (Read the full review...) 437 words, 07/29/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Makes enough fun of itself to keep parents amused; kids will eat it up." (Read the full review...) 347 words, 07/29/11 Logan Hill, New York Magazine: POOR "...take a long-in-the-tooth franchise and move it to -- New York! Bound to work, right? If nothing else, just think of the clichés to mine.... this is lazy at best." (Read the full review...) 472 words, 07/29/11 Nell Minow, Chicago Sun-Times: WEAK (cg) "...combines an enchanted world of magical, animated characters with live-action New York City and manages to get the worst of both worlds.... It's raw and mean-spirited..." (Read the full review...) 795 words, 07/29/11 Nick Schager, Village Voice: POOR "Gosnell directs as if every scene must be either a nauseating roller-coaster ride or a syrupy melodrama..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 08/03/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Kids are sure to find it smurf-errific, smurf-ilicious or just plain smurfy. Adults will happily settle for smurf-ectly inoffensive." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 07/29/11 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "Without a child character to interpret and join the action, it's a pretty dull way to introduce young viewers to the new blue crew." (Read the full review...) 486 words, 07/29/11 Andrew Parker, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...a dull and largely unfunny attempt to capture the joy of Peyo's comics and the 1980s animated series." (Read the full review...) 190 words, 07/28/11
Sean O'Connell, Washington Post: POOR (cg) " 'I wouldn't smurf Raja Gosnell's 'The Smurfs' on my smurfiest enemy.' " (Read the full review...) 607 words, 07/29/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...sickeningly sweet and upbeat. But if you've got kids, it's not nearly as torturous to sit through as you might have feared. I smurf you not." (Read the full review...) 526 words, 07/29/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has brains, heart and style... combines vivacious grown-up appeal with mischief guaranteed to have children giggling." (Read the full review...) 508 words, 07/29/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...noisy, formulaic... The bottom line: Any movie that gives Jonathan Winters work is doing something right." (Read the full review...) 536 words, 07/29/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "Although the tiniest children may laugh at the broadest gags, there's nothing here to interest anyone over 5... the 3-D is migraine-inducing..." (Read the full review...) 506 words, 07/29/11 Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...a better movie than anyone could have possibly expected, thanks in large part to an honest effort by Neil Patrick Harris in a thankless role." (Read the full review...) 424 words, 07/29/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "The bad guys (which include a cat who deserves a better script) lose, as you might expect, and all ends, well, Smurfingly. For the kids in the audience, anyway." (Read the full review...) 333 words, 07/29/11 Jody Mitori, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...cutesy characters and slapstick humor will appeal to younger children.... Parents can appreciate the innocence of the movie: no shootouts, panda killings or overly adult jokes..." (Read the full review...) 357 words, 07/29/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: MODERATE (cg) "...no better than 'Yogi Bear' or worse than a 'Chipmunks' flick, and that's coming from someone who enjoyed the talking critters in 'Zookeeper.' " (Read the full review...) 494 words, 07/28/11
Nick Schager, Village Voice: POOR "Gosnell directs as if every scene must be either a nauseating roller-coaster ride or a syrupy melodrama..." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 08/03/11 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "...exceedingly dull.... never attempts to work any harder than it has to, leaning on its culturally-established characters while making no effort to try anything original..." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 07/28/11 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...an uninspired rip-off of Disney's 'Enchanted'.... 'I hated this much less than I expected,' complains Grouchy near the end. Cranky (this critic) disagrees." (Read the full review...) 150 words, 07/28/11 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: WEAK (cg) "...kids may find this fun, but for adults, watching 'The Smurfs' may feel a little too much like trying to wrangle an overcrowded kiddie birthday party." (Read the full review...) 469 words, 07/28/11 S.T. VanAirsdale, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "Were you a fan of the original cartoon? Do you mind if the Smurfs leave Smurf Village? Can you deal with ungodly, almost fetishistic volumes of product placement?" (Read the full review...) 368 words, 07/28/11 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...boring, lazy, clumsily staged, overly lit, unnecessarily 3D-ed contraption culminates with some half-hearted moral hectoring..." (Read the full review...) 466 words, 07/28/11 Andrew Parker, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...a dull and largely unfunny attempt to capture the joy of Peyo's comics and the 1980s animated series." (Read the full review...) 190 words, 07/28/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "...presents the Smurfs to us with all the usual signifiers of 'cuteness,' and yet just as blatant is a presentation that creates in one the urge to crush them under one's boot." (Read the full review...) 1,045 words, 07/26/11
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: MODERATE "...a decent enough excuse to haul the little ones into an air-conditioned theater." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 07/29/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...more 3-D disaster than family comedy. Even Neil Patrick Harris, who has proved he can save just about any sinking ship, cannot make this boat float." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 07/29/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Adorable and annoying, patently unnecessary yet kinda sweet.... hits its life-affirming, mall-wrecking beats with practiced polish and nary an objectionable or unpredictable moment." (Read the full review...) 813 words, 07/28/11 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "...numbingly generic... strictly for those who stand closer to three apples tall.... remarkably mirthless." (Read the full review...) 422 words, 07/28/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...more 3-D disaster than family comedy. Even Neil Patrick Harris, who has proved he can save just about any sinking ship, cannot make this boat float." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 07/29/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: POOR (cg) "...unoriginal and unintelligent.... the screenplay is rife with nauseatingly weak lines..." (Read the full review...) 895 words, 07/27/11 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: MODERATE "...a decent enough excuse to haul the little ones into an air-conditioned theater." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 07/29/11
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