As 3-D animated comedy 'The Smurfs' hits theatres this week, its cast reveals their fascination for the cute little creatures As 3-D animated comedy 'The Smurfs' hits theatres this week, its cast ...

The Smurfs, in case you’ve managed to avoid them all these years, are a happy band of about a thousand little blue men (and one little blue woman) who live in a mushroom forest and sing a song that ...

Let’s be clear about one thing: In their familiar 1980s cartoon incarnation, The Smurfswere always horrible. If one thing can safely be said about Hollywood’s ongoing molestation of our collective ...

In the first few minutes of the animated film “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” I couldn’t help but wonder if this was going to be a terribly long version of the 1980s TV cartoon series. Fortunately, “Lost ...

Although the Smurfs were created as a concept in the 1950s, their totally Smurfin' cartoon was actually first aired in the 1980s. It was, of course, all sweetness and light - or so it seemed, until ...

Cinema observers long have wondered if Hollywood has hit bottom — Where is the originality? — they ask from time to time. Consider just 2011: Several more comic book heroes have come to the big screen ...