("The Lost Village" is being sold as a franchise reboot.) Still, it's just a "Smurfs" movie -- no less, and certainly no more.

The makers of “Smurfs: The Lost Village” deserve thanks for what they didn’t do. They didn’t allow any Smurf to break wind or talk about poop. They didn’t substitute the verb “smurf ...

“Smurfs: The Lost Village,” by contrast ... “The Smurfs and the Magic Flute,” back in 1983.) Both those movies placed animated Smurfs in a live-action universe, and both had the painfully ...

opening a whole new realm of possibilities for the Smurfs. But that laudable expansion doesn’t erase the fact that The Lost Village is not a good movie, which is nothing short of a crime in an ...

Smurfs adventure has girl-power message, some peril. "Smurfs: The Lost Village" is — like the 2011 and 2013 live-action/animation movies — based on the beloved blue cartoon characters.

Thank goodness then that Sony are throwing us back into a fully animated world with the forthcoming Smurfs: The Lost Village. The cast has a few notable inclusions, namely Rainn Wilson as Gargamel ...

“Lost Village” is basically “Smurfs: The Matriarchy ... delivery to draw the faintest of laughs. Like most kids movies these days, the soundtrack pumps with electronic dance music ...

If you endured the two previous “Smurfs” movies — which cloyingly mixed live actors with CGI Smurfs — you’ll notice the many ways in which “The Lost Village” marks a vast improvement.

Then we get to the Smurfs movie, which has a hundred characters ... As it turns out, the Smurf village isn’t the Lost Village. That would be Smurfy Grove, an all-girl Smurf enclave presided ...

Even at 90 minutes, “Smurfs: The Lost Village” seems full of padding ... and Brainy Smurf (Danny Pudi). Later on in the movie, Julia Roberts lends her vocal cords to Smurf Willow, a new ...

The Lost Village worked for its target audience, and its ambition to be something more than just another animation were part-way rewarded. It’s a step up for The Smurfs movies, with bright ...

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