Oh shit! “The Smurfs” are getting all XTREME! and have left their German magic-mushroom forest for New York Cities Times Square, snap!
Ugh, this is your first look at the feature-length live-action adaptation of “The Smurfs” which pretty much looks akin to “Alvin & The Chipmunks” so maybe we shouldn’t groan cause it’s not for our audience or adults at all (though if you read some sites who took this seriously and at face value, you’d think otherwise).
The cast features Hank Azaria as the villain Gargamel, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays and Sofía Vergara as humans, as well as the voices of Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, Anton Yelchin, Paul Reubens, B.J. Novak, George Lopez, Jonathan Winters, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, John Oliver, Jeff Foxworthy, Tim Gunn and Wolfgang Puck.
Directed by Raja Gosnell (the Academy Award winning “Scooby-Doo”), film is evidently “reimagined through computer animation and eventual 3-D projection” (go figure). The trailer hits this Thursday and the film hits theaters July 29, 2011. Update: Trailer has arrived, it’s nothing to look at really. And well, to be honest, it looks godawful, especially the remixed theme song mixed with Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing,” gross.
