Smurfs

I took my child to what I assumed would be a fun, light-hearted kids' movie. Unfortunately, what we got was a dark, dystopian story that felt more like a Harry Potter rip-off. The plot revolves around the good in the world being threatened with destruction, wormholes, alternate dimensions, and torture scenes. At one point, the Smurfs are even trapped in a torture chamber and threatened with being crushed unless they give up information.

My kid was terrified. He started crying and asking if we could leave, but we persuaded him to stay, hoping the movie would get better and reassure him in the end. Sadly, there was never any real sense of relief or joy to balance out the intensity. The film was so distressing that my child went to bed worried about having bad dreams. He even asked if these nightmares would keep coming back.

This movie wasn't just heavy-it was outright unfunny and devoid of any real humor or light-hearted moments. I didn't laugh once, and I can't imagine how anyone would, especially children. It feels like it was made without understanding how kids process information or emotions. The references in the movie are clearly aimed at adults, and I seriously doubt the filmmakers had children in mind when crafting this.

In my opinion, the movie's rating is misleading, and I strongly believe it should be reconsidered. While it's marketed as a family movie, it's far too intense and distressing for young audiences. Please, if you're a parent, consider this before taking your kids. If your child is sensitive to darker themes or has a vivid imagination, this movie may leave them scared and confused.

Smurfs 2025 wow what horrible garbage mess of a movie. It's like the franchise automatically knew you've been a smurfs fan forever and there's no need to have a story or decent plot so if your not the whole lore they have created makes no sense and falls really flat. I'm not a huge smurfs fan and my son wanted to see it and even he torwards the end became very uninterested and the music was bad Nd didn't add much to the story. The animation was ok and I get they were trying to be different but sometimes being too different is a curse and it just didn't work, the characters were 1 dimensional, and again i get it's a kids movie but what happened to movies that were made for both parents and kids. I think this may be just a cash grab, and maybe good press for Rhianna. Not only was it unnecessary it was super bad to watch too.

So... i just got done watching the Paramount own Smurf movie "THE SMURFS" i had to go watch it early when the Australia release on July 5th and i watched it... you know it's was a bit eh in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong the character were good, i did got laugh from a few jokes and the animation was decent enough... but sadly this movie wasn't good and not as bad but it eh..., i guess it was in development back in 2022 and after 3 years they made it, but however the director was fine, but when i saw Pam Brady writing i was like: "wait Pam Brady making a kids film?"

Overall mediocre film..... (5/10 eh)

This movie was very disappointing. I dont feel the voices fit the roles. I was used to Smurfettes voice being cute and dainty. The voice instead was rough and didnt fit her character. The plot didnt make sense. It seemed like things were juat thrown togethet and not thought out. They bleeped swear words all out at the end of movie in which my kids asked what that was. I dont want to have to explain an adult thing in a kids movie. I was very upset with this version. I think movies need to stick close to the original versions and characters. If not, it messes the movie up and highly disappoints.

The original smurfs cartoon from the 1980's had heart, soul, magic and a whole lot of substance, this one is just useless and it continues the downward spiral started in season 9 and continues onward ever since, now rihanna is a good singer, but she is wrong for voicing smurfette, she adds absolutely nothing new to the character, although there some good scenes, the rest are completely atrocious and doesn't have any of the charm nor heart of the original peyo clifford comic strip nor hanna barbera cartoons, the screenplay is completely woeful, it completely missed the opportunity of the charm, the writing is just pitiful, i will stick with the 1980's saturday morning cartoon version from nbc instead, this thing is just pathetic.

Thumbs way down.