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Topic: Revisiting the Live-Action Movie Universe: 10 Years Later
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Vic George The ND Guy
Super Smurf
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posted 09-05-2021 12:34 AM
It's been ten years since the first Smurfs movie in the Live-Action Movie Universe has been universe, and since I have only seen that and The Smurfs 2 a few times since their releases, I saw those movies again recently and I'm still floored by the great (if not absolutely wonderful) job Sony Pictures Animation did in bringing the Smurfs to life. It wasn't like watching a live-action cartoon like other efforts in bringing cartoon characters to a live-action universe. It was like watching real people come to life. It was like everything I imagined the Smurfs to be if they actually existed in the real world. I also like how they interacted with the modern world in the few times they appeared in it through time travel, even with the cast changes between the two movies. The only thing I didn't like of that universe is that we saw very little of the Smurfs' own world and how they interact in that, which would have been an interesting thing to explore in the movie series had the producers not decided to go all-CGI reboot with The Lost Village. There was also too much focus on the human characters and not enough on the Smurfs. Anyway, my overall opinion is that this was a great look into a world that I wish would have lasted longer than just two movies.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4103 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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Rozalka
Smurf
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posted 09-05-2021 02:03 AM
It's my favorite universe ![[Smile]](smile.gif) I really love how they imported the smurfs into real life too.
Personally I think, movies are a bit hard to show better the smurfs' life, but series wouldn't be profitable for the creators - la movies are much harder in making than full animated ones. But another movie would be a good idea
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Sorry for my English ;)
My fanfiction: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2850991
Posts: 231 | From: Poland | Registered: May 2021
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Squeaky Smurf
Hering Smurf
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posted 09-05-2021 03:39 PM
I enjoyed the movie version, but my favorite is still in this style:
Coincidence or not, it's quite similar both to the one in Lost Village movie and the new TV series too.
Still, I'm somewhat curious whether a new Smurf movie might be released alike the ones of 2011 and 2013 in the future.
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Keep on always smurfin'!!
Posts: 7507 | From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Registered: Jul 2008
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Vic George The ND Guy
Super Smurf
Member # 300
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posted 09-06-2021 04:22 AM
I'm not sure I would like a Smurfs movie that is just another variation of Toy Story.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4103 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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Vic George The ND Guy
Super Smurf
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posted 09-06-2021 04:37 AM
BTW, I was singing the Flick Dillinger song "I Ran Over All The Smurfs" during the scene in the first movie where the Smurfs were running through the street trying to get to FAO Schwarz.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
"Cat and mouse games really aren't much fun for us mouse types" -- Empath from "Empath The Bandit Smurf"
Posts: 4103 | From: Westfield, MA | Registered: Mar 2003
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