I like the juxtaposition of Smurfs in modern day as long as there's a nod to the fact they're out of their time. Marmaduke, Underdog…well, we knew to skip those from even the teaser trailers. I know that’s still like apples and oranges, but you just never know until it's burned on celluloid. However, Muppets From Space seemed like a fantastic idea on paper and it killed the Muppets in cinema for over 12 years! The Muppets aren’t British citizens, but they made the London setting work in the Great Muppet Caper. We've only heard a thin pitch, albeit a change from the original program. I'm not wild about the NY concept, but we know very little right now.
#Without having to watch encino man. movie#
I think it’s like when they convert a book to a movie - there's a lot that changes that must be made to make the concept exciting to a wider audience in the different medium. I'm still thinking they might balance the traditional Smurf setting with this modern day urban one they’ve chosen. I still don’t think we have enough information yet. Also, it’s being overlooked that they are facing Gargamel (Hank Azaria = nice choice). They marketed the movie and said "Holy Crap! We have to write this thing." And there ya go.Ĭlick to expand.The only way to escape reality in a film is to show reality and then turn it on its head. I see the same thing happening with a BIGGER budget here. even the creator hated it, and every geek's favorite cartoon writer, Paul Dini had some pretty sharp words about it. I just find it pathetic to spend all this time and effort into a movie that's going to tick off the fan base while not getting a new group of kids to watch either. I don't want to feel good or laugh at requoted movie lines. not make heavy handed and hypocritical feel good morals that NO one actually follows. What I want is the three part trilogy that Nickelodeon was planning where the Smurfs actually did things they would have done in either the comic or the cartoon show. and they'll spend half the movie discovering rap music and iPhones and "I'm blue ba ba de" will be on the soundtrack because they apparently think it's funny to put horrid and dated songs for some pun reason. And I'm sure they'll make it some lame time travelly dealy, which at least would be consistent with the lousy last season where they traveled through time. The problem is, if the Smurfs brand can't speak for itself, it has no business being a movie.
just remember what they are and what they do. You can make a stupid movie with those characters, sure.
You can't make Batman dance around in the sunlight and shoot rainbows and puppies from his bat-signia, you can't make Superman a morbidly obese sassy female comedian, and you can't make Spider-Man a Catholic Priest during the Spanish Inquisition. We all have to remember that Smurfs IS a comic book that became popular as a cartoon 30 years later in the US because they sold toys.
heck, Weird Al could be in that kind of movie and I'd skip it. But you can put a Shakespearean scholar in that role, and the film will still suck. the only time I watched Glee (just can't get into it, really) was the episode with him, and he was absolute magic on Sesame Street. or WORSE a kid with an ineffectual father who's completely deep in his work somehow.Īnd dollars to Smurfberries they're gonna make Neil play that tired old chestnut.
Movies where action stars have to play babbysitter (WHY Jackie Chan? WHY? WHY? WHYYYY?)Īnd movies where some brat can't get along with other kids. The Smurfs' formula helped them stay a force in Europe for well over 50 years, and everyone seems to be treating it as if it's just some write off nostalgia that they didn't bother writing a good script for.] Johan and Pewitt are optional, but they are important to the story. The Smurfs NEED a middle age setting, they need to fight Gargamel. I'm sorry, but the point of a movie is to ESCAPE reality. Click to expand.The Smurfs have as much place in modern day as the Sex in the City girls have no place building a time machine and going back to the stone age to invent the wheel.
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