Smurfing smurfness. The Smurfs are back on the smurf-screen. As with the first smurf movie, The Smurfs 2 is in smurfing 3D and smurftacular flatscreen. But then again, a smurf of movies are available like that.
Don't mind me. Just smurfing.
This smurffest begins by recapping the origins of Smurfette (Katy Perry). To put it smurfing short, she was created by the evil Gargamel (Hank Azaria) and turned good by Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters). Speaking of Gargamel, he's in Paris, where he's the star of his own real life magic show. But he's smurfing low on Smurf essence, the source of his magical powers. To remedy this, he creates the Naughties, Vexy (Christina Ricci) and Hackus (J.B. Smoove), to nab Smurfette. Afterwards, he'll get the formula that turned Smurfette good and an unlimited supply of Smurfs.
Not unless Papa Smurf, a few of his fellow Smurfs, and their human allies, the Winslows, can stop him.
This film is certainly a mixed bag. A new character, Victor (Brendan Gleeson), starts off as completely obnoxious and annoying, but ends up sympathetic. Gargamel, and the cartoonish injuries he endures, provided the film's best laughs. Meanwhile, some of the other jokes fall just flat. This was definitely made for little kids; there's no doubt about that.
It does get more tolerable in the end, so that's a plus. But unlike the first Smurfs, I wasn't sufficiently entertained by this sequel. Perhaps you'll like this better than me.
Though, if they do make a movie about Gargamel getting cartoonishly injured, and that's all there was, I'd probably see that.
About Me
- Jethrotcat
- This is the blog where I talk about the latest movies I've seen. These are my two Schnauzers, Rufus (left) and Marley (right, RIP). As of now, the Double Hollywood Strikes are officially over. May the next strikes not last as long as these ones did.
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