Smurf films she tied for # 1 at the box office despite the very negative reviews mostly ranged from "sort it so poorly watched" to the "so bad it's bad" sort of insult is critical. So what kept the film? Two things: one is the existence of the real world of Neil Patrick Harris. That's right, a former child actor who seems destined to be forever known as Doogie Howser secretly has transformed itself into one of our better actor in his adult life. The other is the presence of virtual Katy Perry, Smurfette, breathing sounds the right amount of ladyness to a single female Smurf. And it's a good thing, because the male Smurfs movie just plain annoying.
But if there's something to work on this film, it may be that viewers can hang in there through NPH's representatives as he finds a Smurf characters to be like disturbing as the audience does. This is a tough day when characters are in their original incarnation caricature so they have the names of the stereotypical clearer than the Seven Dwarves, but this character has somehow managed to disperse further to caricature (the threshold is not returned) in their movie incarnation. Oh well. But Neil and Katy to save, because apart from that, there's not much here.
