People are voting emotionally.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The Smurfs live happily in a hidden village in the forest. There are Smurfs of every sort. Then there is Smurfette (Demi Lovato) who was created by Gargamel (Rainn Wilson) from a clump of clay. She wonders what is her purpose and what makes her special. She is captured by Gargamel's vulture Monty. Hefty Smurf (Joe Manganiello), Clumsy Smurf (Jack McBrayer), and Brainy Smurf (Danny Pudi) head off to the rescue without the approval of Papa Smurf (Mandy Patinkin).I'm no Smurf expert but some of the Smurf names at the start sound stupid. Smurfette's question poses some quite profound ideas. What is femininity and what is girl power in the modern sense? What is Smurfette? I may be making too much of the premise but this could have been something truly interesting. In fact, the idea may be too big and it ends saying Smurfette could be anything. It's a nice sentiment but I don't think it's presented well. Also with all the new female Smurfs, Smurfette is no longer special except for her blonde hair. As for the animation, it's better than TV but nothing special. Maybe it could be another Ice Age and that's enough for this franchise.

It depends on the audience. If you love Smurfs no matter what, you could watch this if you want I guess. But the story is so predictable and BORING. If you are young, you would love this movie a lot. The animation is amazing, and this is similar to the original smurfs. At the end, Smurfette becomes a lump of clay. Then with the magic of Smurfs and love and saccharine, tender stuff like that she goes back to normal. You shouldn't watch this if you are below the age of 13.

First of all I have two notes: Note 1: I tried not to put spoilers in here, but better safe than sorry, so I want to warn you there may be spoilers in it. The spoilers don't contain elements from the story but rather from the (new) characters. Note 2: I'm a Belgian, this review can contain grammatical, translation or simple spelling mistakes. Being a Belgian means, I, and a few other generations, grew up with these three-apples-high creatures and still new generations watch the original animated series on TV. So I was pretty excited when they announced there would come another movie in theaters. This movie wouldn't follow the story line from the two previous movies, but it would tell a complete new one. When I saw the posters for the first time, I noticed even the Smurfs looked a bit different and I LOVED IT! They look more similar to the original Smurfs. Another good thing about the movie is that it's completely set in their own environment without any live-action elements. So with all these things I was more excited then I was before. At the end of the movie I had some mixed feelings. It was a beautiful story, the cat Azrael was really funny and Gargamel was as evil as always. But there was actually one thing that annoyed me... the voices. They didn't seem to fit with their characters. At least some of them. Papa Smurf, Gargamel, Smurfette, they were fine. It were especially Clumsy, Brainy and Smurf Willow who didn't convinced me. There is nothing wrong with the actors behind them, it's just that their voices doesn't fit with those Smurfs. A little detail I would have liked, was that the original song of the Smurfs would have been added here. Maybe they could have given it a new touch. Maybe next time...OK, after all I liked the movie, it was a lovely story, beautiful new Smurfs and Monty (originally Howlibird) and Snappy the ladybird were nice extras.

Story(short): Realizing that she has no unique ability, like all the other smurfs, Smurfette wants to go on a forbidden trip, to warn who ever she accidentally drawn Gargamels attention on.Pro: It's a roller-coaster of simple slapstick for young audience. And Tenchnicaly well done.Contra: Its pretty clear what smurfiness means: They're peaceful, friendly, individuals named by their capability or attitude. (By the way, they have no Gender, for the Baby-Stork takes care of the offspring's.) So what can a bunch of female moviemakes come up with? How about a second unknown village full of smurfs! Only those smurfs are all aggressive, bow and spear carrying, female, annoying, unsympathetic, wicked and petty. At this point, I was in the mode to rate this movie with a minus 10. Sorry, topic failed, repeat class! You also might think the grey hairy, red hat, opposite to papa smurf, had to be mama smurf. Far off. Its smurfwillow. Once you reached that point, you won't even bother, that the movie score contains unfitting modern pop music. Which appears to be the only good thing about life, as a female smurf. Disco. I can not say this is a bad movie! I can only speak for my self and say: "I will try to forget, that i saw it!"