The Smurfs (movie)
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Movie Name: The Smurfs |
"The Smurfs" is a new movie developed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It's the first Smurfs movie to use 3D computer-generated animation and also to incorporate live-action. The Culliford family is overseeing the production of this movie, which it was release in the summer of 2011.
Story
NOTE: Due to the story of the movie not being handled by Hanna-Barbera or its parent company Warner Bros., it shares no canonicity with any of the stories told in the Smurfs cartoon show.
The film begins with the Smurfs getting ready for the Blue Moon Festival. In his home, Papa Smurf sees a vision of the Smurfs in cages, Clumsy Smurf holding a dragon wand, and Gargamel being powerful. He decides to suspend Clumsy from picking Smurf Roots, but Clumsy secretly does so anyway. However, Gargamel sees him and follows him into the village. The Smurfs all flee, and Clumsy runs into a forbidden cave. Papa, Smurfette, Grouchy, Brainy and Gutsy notice this and hurry after him. They find him at the edge of a cliff, and while trying to help him up, they are sucked into a giant vortex, leading to New York. Patrick and Grace, a married and expectant couple, befriend them and allow them to stay in their apartment.
Papa learns that he will be able to get them all home in a couple nights. But first, he must figure out the spell to do so. Patrick tells them that there is an old book store in the city, and they head there to get a spell book. After lots of searching, they find one of their own comic books, containing the spell. Gargamel hears where they are, so he sneaks into the book store and finds a dragon wand, which he then steals. He uses the dragon wand to abduct Papa. The Smurfs promise Papa that they won't try to save him. However, Clumsy stayed behind, so he plans a rescue, along with Patrick. The other Smurfs agree to help. Meanwhile, Gargamel is going to remove the "Smurf essence" from Papa and charge it into the dragon wand, which would make him more powerful than anything else in the world.
Patrick and the Smurfs battle Gargamel while Smurfette saves Papa. Also, Brainy reads the spell and opens up the portal, allowing him to go home and round up his friends. They, too, join the fight. Gargamel captures Papa again and throws him into the air, but Patrick catches him. Right before Gargamel can destroy them both, Gutsy knocks the dragon wand out of his hand. Clumsy tries to catch it, and Papa believes that he will fail, but, much to Papa's surprise, he manages to catch it. Without his dragon wand, Gargamel is powerless, and Papa destroys the wand once and for all, and the Smurfs all return home. A series of still images during the credits reveal that Patrick and Grace had a baby boy, and that they named him Blue, and Smurfs rebuilding their home, just like what humans have.
Cast
NOTE: This is the cast list at present. As more information becomes available, this list will be amended and changed.
The live action actors -
- Neil Patrick Harris ... Patrick Winslow (the husband of Jayma Mays' character)
- Jayma Mays ... Grace Winslow (Patrick's wife)
- Sofía Vergara ... Odile (executive at a French cosmetics company who is the boss of Patrick Winslow)
- Hank Azaria ... Gargamel
- Tim Gunn ... Henri (Executive assistant at a major cosmetics company)
The voice actors -
- Alan Cumming ... Gutsy Smurf
- Anton Yelchin ... Clumsy Smurf
- Paul Reubens ... Jokey Smurf
- Katy Perry ... Smurfette
- B.J. Novak ... Baker Smurf
- George Lopez ... Grouchy Smurf
- Jonathan Winters ... Papa Smurf
- Fred Armisen ... Brainy Smurf
- Kenan Thompson ... Greedy Smurf
- John Oliver ... Vanity Smurf
- Jeff Foxworthy ... Handy Smurf
- Adam Wylie ... Panicky Smurf
- Gary Basaraba ... Hefty Smurf
- Wolfgang Puck ... Chef Smurf
- Joel McCrary ... Farmer Smurf
- John Kassir ... Crazy Smurf
- Tom Kane ... Narrator Smurf
- Frank Welker ... Azrael
- Raja Gosnell ... Director
Writers
- J. David Stem ... Screenplay
- David N. Weiss ... Screenplay
- Jay Scherick ... Screenplay
- David Ronn ... Screenplay
- Peyo ... Source Material
Producers
- Jordan Kerner ... Producer
- Ezra Swerdlow ... Executive Producer
- Ben Haber ... Executive Producer
- Paul Neesan ... Executive Producer
