Smurfs (2025) Review

 Yeah that's right, a new Smurfs movie in 2025, despite the fact that Smurfs doesn't have a market with children at all in 2025. I watched it, mainly because the marketing was horrific and I wanted to see if it's really that bad or if it's just a mediocre kids movie.


It really is that bad. I disliked basically everything about this film, although I did like the fact that the cat is called Azrael, because it's the name of the Undertale character, but that's just a coincidence on the writers' part, there is no way they did that because of Undertale. That being said, sometimes it does feel like the film wasn't written by human beings at all, because the script really feels like you typed in 'generate the script for a generic kids film but cater it to the fact that Rihanna is in it' into Bing A.I. (not even ChatGPT.)  The film genuinely is so unfunny and cringe, but also straight up laughably 'borrows' other much better recent films' ideas. It straight up tries to do a Spider-Verse multiverse but with the Smurfs, and it's just so baffling that this is a thing. It also tries to do the Encanto theme of an outcast child in a family without a gift while everyone else in it does, except takes that and goes 'what if instead of Mirabel accepting that not being gifted in this magical family is okay, and she shouldn't blame herself for things she didn't cause because of this, she randomly got magical powers and literally became a god.' As you can tell, this film does not fundamentally work, and also the amount of copying just proves that Smurfs as a franchise were never meant to be stretched out into a strangely large amount of films like this. 

Also the voice acting is really bad here. James Corden plays the main smurf and is just James Corden and nothing else. Rihanna also just doesn't voice act, it just seems like she's playing herself because she'll get a sum of money for it.     Additionally, the animation looks really bad, just looking like it was ripped out of a random mobile game that you play at MacDonalds once, and never again. 


The final thing I'd like to mention, is just the insane amounts of product placement in this film. There is a literal Uber Eats ad segment in the middle, where James Corden smurf turns to Rihanna smurf and goes 'so they deliver right to your door?' this lasts way longer than it should.


In conclusion, this was a terrible way to spend 80 minutes. `1/10


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