Smurfs

"Adventure comes out of the blue."

2025 1h 29m EN

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★5.7TMDB · 291

AnimationFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

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When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.

“Adventure comes out of the blue.”

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Cast

Rihanna
Smurfette (voice)
James Corden
No Name (voice)
Nick Offerman
Ken (voice)
JP Karliak
Gargamel / Razamel (voice)
Dan Levy
Joel (voice)
Amy Sedaris
Jaunty (voice)
Natasha Lyonne
Mama Poot (voice)
Sandra Oh
Moxie Smurf (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Chris Miller
Writers: Pam Brady, Robert Porter, Kasey Fagerquist
Languages: English, French, Japanese
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $58M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released last year.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, French, Japanese.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Chris Miller, shot by Peter Lyons Collister. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Henry Jackman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Matthew Landon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Rihanna and James Corden and Nick Offerman carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Chris Miller directs. Peter Lyons Collister behind the camera. Henry Jackman scores. Matthew Landon cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French, Japanese.

Trivia

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189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Mid-budget at $58M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
3Released last year.
4Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, French, Japanese.
5Directed by Chris Miller, shot by Peter Lyons Collister. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Henry Jackman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Matthew Landon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Rihanna and James Corden and Nick Offerman carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Adventure comes out of the blue.".
10IMDB entry: tt18069420 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 12 themes, including "musical", "portal", "based on comic", "shocking".

The technical file

Cinematography: Peter Lyons Collister
Original score: Henry Jackman
Editing: Matthew Landon
Production design: Max Boas
Makeup / hair: Arianna Palmucci
VFX supervisor: Andrew Babick
Sound: Randy Thom
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $58,000,000
Box office: $124,157,356
Return: 214% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Smurfs (2025)

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mland602025-07-01
Awful movie, well not awful but far from good, it’s corny and unfunny.
RealZero2025-07-13
★ 4/10
The art style(s) were surprisingly good, better than I assumed from the trailers. The jokes, spoken and visual, also worked out really well in my opinion. I don't like the role dynamic of Gargamel and Razamel. They should've stuck with Gargamel alone and have him stick to his usual self. Too many characters "try to be cool". It's fine to have a "cool" character, but all of them trying to be? Dangerously close to Marvel's "the villains are just laughing stocks" situation. The story was barely coherent. It felt more like a "Alice in Wonderland" trip where individual, short ideas were lived out. Also, unnecessary deus-ex-machina moments that could've been written to be emotional and nice, but instead are resolved "magically" like that. The live-action scenes were completely unnecessary. Even more than in the two Neil Patrick Harris Smurfs movies. Like...completely unnecessary! And also kinda strange, because there were actual live-action humans, and then there's animated humans like Gargamel and Razamel, contrary to the other Smurf movies where Gargamel was also live-action. So, yeah. The movie would be better without those. So, overall, a bit disappointing. It could've been a really nice movie. The jokes are good, visual style and gags work REALLY well, but the main story was a mess to me. I guess it's fine if you care more about the characters than the story. The second live-action one's story but in this style, that would've worked nicely.
CinemaSerf2025-08-15
★ 5/10
I kept putting off going to see this, I’d heard it was awful but you know what? I didn’t loathe it. Now that’s saying something as from the outset it looked more like the seven dwarves had taken the wrong direction in the forest and found themselves in the wooded equivalent of twee-on-sea! It’s all about a “Smurf” with no name who is pals with “Smurfette” who is helping him go through some ten thousand-odd descriptors for his skills, but none of them seem to fit - especially the clog-making one! He soon finds himself embroiled in a megalomaniac wheeze by the evil sorcerer “Razamel” who is on the look out for a magical book that will enable him to join the league of extraordinary wizards (or something like that) and eradicate “Papa Smurf” and all “Smurfkind”. There now follows lots of “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” type scenes; the obligatory bit of inter-dimensional travel as well as lots of opportunity for Rihanna to belt out the soundtrack that’s clearly had much more creative emphasis put on it than the script - which is not great. It does move along well enough, though, and the story does pick up for about fifteen minutes of dastardliness towards an ending that introduces some magic to the proceedings. The quality of the animation isn’t really much to write home about, with some focus on the lead characters but too many wallpaper ones to make up the numbers in an eerily computerised and sterile fashion. Quite who this is for is interesting. The kids it’s aimed at won’t have a clue who they were, nor are they likely be very engaged by the sheer derivative lack of sophistication of the whole thing. Those of us who remember the annoying blue people and their equally annoying songs from the beginning of the 1980s might want to indulge in some nostalgia for (the last) half an hour, maybe, but otherwise it’s a long old ninety minutes that probably just didn’t need making at all.