Topic: The Underrated Genius of Smurfs: The Lost Village.

The first two Smurfs movies are god awful, no doubt about it. Sony obviously realized this, and decided to reboot the continuity with a fully animated third movie. While it only got slightly better ratings than the live-action films (it currently sits at a 40 on Rotten Tomatoes) and was a box office bomb, I feel that it may have been due to Smurf burnout. This movie is probably the most faithful adaptation of The Smurfs that we have gotten. Director Kelly Asbury (of Shrek 2 and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron fame, may he rest in peace) wanted to make a Smurf film that creator Peyo would be proud of, had he been still alive. And he mostly succeeded. Despite some clunky moments here and there, the movie has a beautiful visual style that kind of acts as a precursor to what Sony Animation would do with Into the Spider-Verse later on. The story may be a bit simple, but it is very effective. It is interesting seeing Smurfette trying to figure out what she wants to be, and the hidden village of female Smurfs is quite the cool concept. The voice cast is pretty solid too, but Rainn Wilson steals the show as Gargamel. This movie should be a cult classic, and should be talked about more.

For real, Smurfs: The Lost Village is really an underrated movie. Seeing this makes me happy to know someone else loved it too. For me, it really felt like a modern day Smurfs cartoon, and the Smurfs world was done beautifully in it. Also, the characters looked faithful to the original looks. I loved the story and adventure Smurfette, Brainy, Hefty, and Clumsy went on.

I'm happy the updated look was used for the new cartoon that recently came out, as well as the Mission Vileaf game, which IMHO, was a really good platformer and Smurfs game.

Honestly, it's one of my favorite movies.

Hmm, as someone who has only ever seen the original show I might check Smurfs: The Lost Village out.

@Sunsy Yes! Yes! A 100 times yes.
Glad you think it is underrated too.