Hot New Trailer: ‘The Smurfs’

COMMENTS (23)

• I always wondered what blue sh!t smelled like. Now I know.

  Comment by Sniff Sniff — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:35am PDT  Reply to this post

  • It’s so unbelievably bad I stopped the trailer half way through. Wow.

    Comment by Maryland — Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 7:10am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yeah… another great movie from Sony. All that terrible image placement for Blu-ray and 3D. I reckon it’s the first 3D movie that is promoting 3D in the movie itself. And doesn’t Gargamel look horrible? Thanks Sony for spoiling one of my childhood favorites. I won’t take my kid to see this crap.

    Comment by its_shit_its_sony — Friday May 27, 2011 @ 5:56am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why does every kids movie have to have a gratuitous dance sequence at the end of the trailer?

  Comment by Peter — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:42am PDT  Reply to this post

  • It’s called the Tyler Perry Effect.

    Comment by The Denogginizer — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 1:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 43 years in development for this? That being said, still looks better than the muppets

  Comment by brett — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sold! Great trailer promising lots of fun. Looking forward to this.

  Comment by Trailerguy — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• I hope this movie explores the benevolent dictatorship that is Papa Smurf’s rule.

  Comment by gary — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• way to monetize the smurfs!

  shame to not go for the same character voices though, the ones here, esp. papa smurf and smurfette are uninspired and rather weak to say the least.

  Comment by claude — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:46am PDT  Reply to this post

• In the late summer/early Fall of 2009, Smurfs went into preproduction in Manhattan. Not long after, the script was deemed, for lack of a better word, AWFUL, and production was in need of rewrites galore.

  CUT TO: FALL OF 2009. Production shuts down. However, studio does not want to lose all the money it sunk into preproduction (aka money it spent without a finished or solid script — God, when will they learn?)

  CUT TO: LATE FALL/EARLY WINTER 2009: Studio attempts rewrites, but nothing works. Studio shrugs, says “Whatever” and pushes forward (as it did not want to waste any more money trying to figure out the right angle on this project, and refused to abort it or put it on hold). And now, we have… this.

  CUT TO: NOW: Wow. This trailer is terrible.

  Comment by Jakey Misters — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• Cute trailer. Where’s Vanity Smurf? He was the best. Kids will love this.

  Comment by esb — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 12:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The villan looks just like the villan kiddie kidnapper from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. is there supposed to be a similarity? or is this a lack of creativity/originality?

  Comment by jkl — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 12:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • It’s F-ing Gargamel. Show some respect.

    Comment by gary — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 2:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • +1

      Comment by gothar — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 3:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Gargamel first appeared in 1959, almost a decade before the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie.

    I hate to say it — this looks kinda good?

    Comment by bobbyg — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 6:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @ Jakey Misters- You have your information wrong. I’ve been working on this film (pre pro was done in LA) and when we went to NY to shoot everyone was VERY happy with the final draft. Sony requested some reshoots but much wasn’t needed. Jordan Kerner’s productions have always been full of heart and well crafted, so I would reserve my judgement for when the film comes out. Smurfs Up!

  Comment by Clumsy Smurf — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 1:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• WOW. That… looks… awful.

  Sadly, It will probably make Alvin and the Chipmunks money and kids will probably go apesmurf for it.

  Comment by No One of Consequence — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 1:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How…..”hot”?

  Comment by chris — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 3:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• STOP ruining my childhood Hollywood!

  Comment by deedeedragons — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 5:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Poor Neil Patrick Harris.

  Comment by Book Guy — Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 5:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I hope that cat has a big appetite.

  Comment by Rich — Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 11:00am PDT  Reply to this post

• The Horror….oh the horror.

  Comment by Ralph — Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 12:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Even though this looks routinely terrible, Neil Patrick Harris is probably the only person on Earth who could carry this kind of film.

  Comment by palinode — Friday May 27, 2011 @ 8:24am PDT  Reply to this post