Review of The Smurfs 2 (2013) by Simpsonfans — 20 Sep 2016

OK been waiting for months for The Smurfs 2 finally arrived at the land of Peace (just about the most fitting place for Smurfs to live!).

I'm pretty disappointed in this movie as a big smurf fan I'll go straight to the point for the good the bad and the verdict.

The Good:

-Improvements in cinematography,it's far more colorful this time around and the camera tricks works brilliantly at most part lighting is about right not too bright and not even one scene look dimmed.

-Good voice acting...ok for the most part Jonathan Winters did a swansong and each voice actors actually playing against each other now.

-It got THE HAPPY ENDING,just perfect! too bad it's the best scene in the movie (because it's ending...).

-The cuteness and chemistry between Clumsy Vanity and Grouchy is literally off the chart!

The Bad:

-Inconsistent pacing,it actually all over the place the movie takes way too long to starts and by the time you starts to really get along with the lovely blue buddies you realized it took over an hour mark by that point which is just about the same time movie starts to slow itself down and it drags pretty badly.

-Very predictable story just like the recent Doraemon movies Smurfs 2 story is all too obvious to the point that I can see what's going to happen next right away coupled with inconsistent pacing makes it a pretty boring movie for anyone above 9 years of age.

-Messy dialogue often I find the smurfs are way too talkative at the wrong time like a very emotional climatic moment and that's just ruined the moment,everybody tries too hard to steal other smurfs spotlight with series of one liners way too often which is very annoying and it goes one through the whole movie.

-Oh poor Azrael it's unnecessary to have him at all in the movie since all I see him doing is just fooling around and just there to get beaten for 40 minutes this is just wrong I know he's a bad cat but damn why.

It always have to him to take the beating?

-Bunch of bad jokes wasted on so many potentially good scenes it interfered the flow leading to its inconsistent pacing.

-Unfunny Garmagel He just...bored and tired just like Hank Azaria he just stopped being funny and even.

Worse stopped being a charismatic villain which we all knew him for.

The Verdict:

It's an OK movie for kids pretty boring for adults it just more of the same with the added family elements which is pretty forced and mostly ineffective to most audiences at least they got good message for kids unlike the first movie which it got nothing and The Smurfs 2 fortunately starts to really shines...just few minutes before the credits roll...