When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 8 nominations
Katy Perry
- Smurfette
- (voice)
Jonathan Winters
- Papa
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKaty Perry, who voices Smurfette in this film and The Smurfs 2 (2013), wasn't allowed to watch the original The Smurfs (1981) series as a child. Her parents were highly conservative pastors, and didn't consider it to be good for their children.
- GoofsIn the restaurant, Gargamel throws a plate with bread up in the air with Azrael, it falls and a breaking sound is heard. However, seconds later, the plate and the bread are on the same place as if untouched.
- Crazy creditsThere is a statement in the closing credits: "No digital cats were harmed in the making of this picture."
- Alternate versionsAlso shown in 3D version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Video Game Vault: The Smurfs (2010)
- SoundtracksSmurfs Main Theme
Written by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and Hoyt Curtin
Featured review
A Great Kids movie
We took our 2 kids to see this with varied expectations after reading various reviews. There are SO many nods to the old show, and their creation, Smurfette's creation, I did not have an issue with the plot at all. Yeah take the old He Man plot and insert Smurfs, except, the Smurfs did a much better job with this than He Man ever did. They didn't use the word "Smurf" for just censorship, they used it as their verbs also. (Hey, transformers used "Slag" in Beast Wars.. what's the difference people, and Beast Wars was TV!?) At the intro we even see a glimpse of the nearby Kingdom where William and PeeWee came from, but the story doesn't go in that direction, obviously. The plot is simple, the violence is minimal, any real cursing is non-existent. So thus many people will hate this movie. No smurfs are killed, there is no blood, nothing gets blown up...well, something does now that I reflect on that. It's a fun little movie with many dry smurf jokes. Loved Grouchy's new love interest, hilarious. My 6 year old girl absolutely LOVED this movie. My 3 year old had an issue with the Smurfs not being in every scene...with his attention span. My wife and I even enjoyed it for what it was as well. No one else could have been picked to be the perfect Gargamel. Azrael was spot on and still my favorite character. So if you have the pitter patter of little feet or little blue feet take them to see this little treat, nothing tasteless here. The "chamber pot" scene was even funny. They "sort of" leave a possibility of a sequel, so bring in the "Lone Smurf" for the sequel! Almost gave it a 7/10, but changed my mind because we haven't seen a movie we could take our kids without being embarrassed about them seeing in a LONG time, plus I'm an old Smurf fan. Not much meat here, but a good clean kids movie you'll see in a LONG time. There may never be another movie made like this one, and the Smurfs look very realistic. Did we 3D? Absolutely... not!
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- cgrill8
- Aug 8, 2011
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- Also known as
- Smurf'd
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- Budget
- $110,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $142,614,158
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $35,611,637
- Jul 31, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $563,892,376
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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