The Smurfs (2011)

All Critics (115) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (90) | DVD (5)

To play The Smurfs Drinking Game you will need: Two 500cl bottles of Blue Bols (per player), one white sleeping cap, ample powder-blue face paint and too much spare time.

August 9, 2011 Full Review

David Jenkins

Time Out

Top Critic

Gosnell directs as if every scene must be either a nauseating roller-coaster ride or a syrupy melodrama.

July 29, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Nick Schager

Village Voice

Top Critic

The Smurfs ends up being just below average, it won't give you nightmares, and small ones might dig it.

July 29, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Top Critic

That two sequels have been announced is terrifying.

July 29, 2011 Full Review | Comments (14)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

It's raw and mean-spirited, with too many of the Smurf word substitutions more naughty than nice ("Who Smurfed?" or "Where the Smurf are we?"). That's Smurfed up.

July 29, 2011 Full Review | Comments (31)

Nell Minow

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

The Smurfs mostly takes place in a grown-up world of cosmetics advertising and expectant parents. Without a child character to interpret and join the action, it's a pretty dull way to introduce young viewers to the new blue crew.

July 29, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

The Smurfs is a cute family film that suffers from being a little formulaic and uninspired, and the CGI smurfs don't look like the original characters.

February 28, 2013 Full Review

Amy Curtis

We Got This Covered

Filmgoers who enjoyed the cartoon (or comic strips) as a kid will very likely be left with the taste of sour Smurfberries.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

The kids might enjoy it, but The Smurfs is nothing but an annoying, noisy commercial for Sony products. Save for Hank Azaria's amusing take on Gargamel, the film is fatty junk food.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

...a cynical extension, not even an earnest spin-off.

January 6, 2012 Full Review

Marsha McCreadie

Film Journal International

The Smurf's is a cute film . . . if cute's your thing.

December 29, 2011 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Once in awhile, a movie sets me searching for its origins. That's what 'The Smurfs' did. I guessed this movie wasn't quite what their creator had in mind - and I was right.

December 22, 2011 Full Review

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

Call me Grouchy, but I say grown-ups should just say smurf it and avoid the film completely.

November 30, 2011 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

The film indulges in a level of product placement not seen since the glory days of Mac & Me.

October 26, 2011 Full Review

Clem Bastow

The Vine

full review at Movies for the Masses

September 29, 2011 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

The Smurfs isn't smurfing awesome, but it's also not a complete pile of smurf.

September 15, 2011 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

It is something of a relief that this energetic kids flick is partially better than it had any right to be.

September 15, 2011 Full Review

Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

The current incarnation of The Smurfs bears little resemblance to the classic cartoon, in a film likely to leave anyone other than hyperactive children feeling blue.

September 15, 2011 Full Review

Sarah Ward

Trespass

Takes the 80s favourite kids' cartoon and embellishes it with special effects, New York cliches and gutter humour so that the end result is a shiny but shallow copy of all that was great about the original TV series.

September 15, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Clarissa Meffan

MovieFIX

The Smurfs will likely be the best, most enjoyable kid film of 2011. And, yes, adults have been catered for. Dive in.

September 14, 2011 Full Review

Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

It's predictable kiddie fare and lags in the middle, but it's visually impressive, spirited and often fun.

September 13, 2011 Full Review

Annette Basile

FILMINK (Australia)

A smurfection of blue cutedom, The Smurfs (in 2D and 3D) makes good the promise that feeling blue can be a happy thing

September 11, 2011 Full Review

Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

Everyone knows the Smurfs sing all day - and also that their song is repetitive and annoying.

September 8, 2011 Full Review

Cynthia Fuchs

Time to Play Magazine

Likely to enthral very small children only, The Smurfs starts with promise but peters out into something bland.

September 8, 2011 Full Review

James Luxford

The National

As the Smuppets take Manhattan, the script runs a blue streak of snappy self-marketing and sappy smurfimentalism. It's all so calculatingly self-smurmotional.

September 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

• 1. Gargamel: Azrael? Are you DEAD?!
  – Submitted by Cameron D (4 months ago)
• 1. Gargamel: Your milking it, don't milk it.
  – Submitted by Matthew R (5 months ago)
• 1. Greedy Smurf: Is anyone else reading these signs?
  – Submitted by Cameron D (8 months ago)
• 1. Smurfette: You messed with the wrong smurf....HIYAH!
  – Submitted by Matthew D (10 months ago)
• 1. Smurfette: Hi Grouchy. Are you having a good day?
  2. Grouchy Smurf: Don't talk to me! You will have a smurfache.
  – Submitted by Robbin B (13 months ago)
• 1. Odile: And everyone will know the name that is... Garbageman!
  – Submitted by Eduardo T (17 months ago)