

Much more of a pleasant kid-friendly palate cleanser than a cinematic torture vehicle like the live-action/animated hybrid Smurf films, Smurfs: The Lost Village, wisely and finally, converts the blue characters into eye-popping animation. Uninspired film that fails to garner interest in a critically poor franchise. Sony is having a mixed year with films and this was another poor reboot, Spiderman Homecoming proved reboots do work for studio but that was more thanks to Marvel Studios being involved. This was better than the first 2 films but it isn't by a huge stretch, I can only hope with the films poor box office the film is handed to another studio to produce. The original Tv show was clever and the characters were fun, this film just goes through the motions of a very simple storyline. The problem with the Smurf films is the studio hires uninspired filmmakers for the property.

½ The animation is great but the film is a little boring with no real plot line.
