I really didn't expect USA people would share my point of view. You know smurfs since 1981 due to HB series. Your conception of the smurfs world is distorted a lot. Where are smurfs from? Belgium. Talking about belgian people, put yourself in their place. What would you think if belgian people did a movie about any american character (Superman, Scooby-Doo, Calvin and Hobbes) and the plot was very uncommon?
One example of a plot : Superman travels to Egypt where he knows Cleopatra. Then he travels to Spain where he becomes a bullfighter. He finds a time gate and is able to get back to his time. Would you like to see an american idol like this doing those kind of things, there, in that period? Of course not, you would think the director has gone crazy and the movie wouldn't be fun at all. So that's the same case. Smurfs are great in their smurf world not in ours.
European people who know smurfs since 1958 from the original comic books can't understand what the hell are doing the smurfs in the city of NY in the year 2011. They found it just ridiculous.
First movie has become a success, this is true. One of the main interest was to see the smurf village and the smurfs living on there. That's all. When smurfs travel in tima to NY the magic disappears.
Sony Pictures and Peyo family are a bit richer today. They were enormously rich and now they are even richer. What they want to do now? Another smurf movie in USA? Las Vegas this time? Los Angeles? NY again? What if they think about a better plot this time? What about Peyo, the "creator" of smurfs? What would he think about smurfs being in NY playing with the PlayStation console?
If Sony and Peyo family respect Peyo they should be ashamed of what they've done. They can fix it in the following movies.
I think they can do a movie with all the action in the smurf village. Why not? They are rich !!
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