It's the end of the World!!! (I can't believe this is going to be a movie)

[Jamtoy]

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THIS IS JUST BAD.  VERY BAD!

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[Menard]

At least it is not going to be live action. Who knows, though, that is probably around the corner.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Hey you want to smurf you mother smurfing son of a smurf. Goodfellas and Casino would be much better if they said that :)

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Ray,when some asks you if your a God you say YES! - Ghostbusters

[Neville]

Probably they decided to do it through CGI because there aren't studio pictures of actors tinted in blue.

Any ideas of who could be cast in an possible live version?

[Master Blaster]

Reminds me of the SNL skit with smurfs -
"I'm going to smurf every smurf on your smurf!"
"I want you to smurf all over my smurfs!"

[Neville]

An interesting mental exercise: Re-watch "Blue Velvet" and replace every f-word by Dennis Hopper's character with "smurf".

[LH-C]

Yeah, I read about it earlier today on Joblo.com. I am completely dumbfounded.

[ulthar]

I am not a big fan of the smurfs; in fact, I cannot recall ever watching them when they were popular (the 80's).

That said, I am not offended by someone making this movie.  I probably will become so when it starts to get hyped, but for now, who really cares?  There are tons of bad (not good bad) children's movies out there and they generally remain below the radar.  Two from our collection that come to mind (we did not buy these, they were given as gifts, and I absolutely cringe whenever my 3 yo picks up one and says "this one"):

The Wubulous World of Dr. Seuss
Hello Kitty

A smurf movie can NOT be any worse than these.  So, knowing I won't go see it, or buy it (and can hopefully head off any well-meaning relatives giving it as a gift), I really don't care.

Side note: who knew the smurfs were from the '50s?  I sure did not.

[Master Blaster]

Ooh ooh! I did

http://www.toonopedia.com/smurfs.htm

[Fearless Freep]

I wouldn't mind a Moomintrolls movie...if done right...

[Ozzymandias]

I think they should go back and look at the original cartoons from Belgum. They had a satirical edge and was a lot less cutesy as the American version. One of the characters walked around with a sledge hammer and anytime anyone got preachy, this Smurf would beat them over the head with his sledge hammer.

[ulthar]

Ozzymandias wrote:

> I think they should go back and look at the original cartoons
> from Belgum. They had a satirical edge and was a lot less
> cutesy as the American version. One of the characters walked
> around with a sledge hammer and anytime anyone got preachy,
> this Smurf would beat them over the head with his sledge
> hammer.

You reckon Groening studied these?

[Neville]

I remember watching some cartoons in my childhood days and thinking, even then, that they were quite bland. They probably were the Hanna-Barbera TV series. I have good memories of the comic books, though.

[Ozzymandias]

You have to realize when the Smurfs debuted on American TV there was heavy censorship on Saturday morning TV. The sledge hammer Smurf was obviously wrong.

I have a video of a documentary from Spain about the history of comics. It has the original version of the theme song in French. Hanna-Barberra copied it note from note and (I'm guessing - don't know French) word for word (Complete with 'La La la la la LA'). Over there they are Schroompfs (forgive my spelling) and the word Schroompf is heard throughout. You also hear "evil" voice and a cat's meow, so I guess that is where Gargamel would say "OOOOH I HATE THOSE SMURFS!"

[odinn7]

The Smurfs are currently being shown on TV now (I think Cartoon Network or one of those) and my daughter watches them. It's pretty harmless really. I don't think a movie will have much impact on the world as we know it.