DB Reviews- Smurfs: The Lost Village

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Hello everyone! It's me, DB and after many, many months of not blogging, I am back for my review of Smurfs: The Lost Village! WARNING! This review does contain spoilers!

The story centers around Smurfette, the only female Smurf in the Smurfs village. However, she wasn't a real Smurf at first. Gargamel, the main villain of the Smurfs universe, created her from a lump of clay and sent her to find the village and capture the Smurfs. But, with the help of his powerful magic, Papa Smurf turned Smurfette into a real Smurf and she joined the team!

In this adventure, Smurfette was curious about her role in the Smurfs. While she was finding her role, she finds a new Smurf, one that she, and the rest of the other Smurfs, have never seen before! Against Papa Smurfs orders, she, Hefty Smurf, Brainy Smurf and Clumsy Smurf set out on a grand adventure to discover who the new Smurfs are and stop Gargamel from completing his latest scheme to take all of the Smurfs magic and become the most powerful wizard of all!

First off, I like the fact that the writers gave Smurfette a back story in this film. It helps set up the climax of the film and I think it was needed in the Smurfs universe! The story in the film itself was good too. A little too much, but still good.

Secondly, I think this was Demi Lovato's best film since the Camp Rock series! To me, she did a very good job as the voice of Smurfette! Smurfette was originally voice by Lucille Bliss in the original, classic cartoon. Now Demi has done the same for a new generation of Smurfs fans! Great job, Demi!

I think Rainn Wilson did a good job voicing Gargamel! Hank Azaria (of the Simpsons fame) played the role in the 2 live action films prior to Wilson, but I think Wilson still did good as the animated version of Gargemel. He brought the 60s cartoon style of the character to the big screen and to me, that was needed for this film.

Joe Manganiello (of Magic Mike fame) protrayed Hefty. I liked Hefty in this film. We can definitelly see that Hefty has a crush on Smurfette!

Jack McBrayer played Brainy Smurf. You might remember McBrayer as Fix-it Felix, Jr from Wreck-It Ralph!  It's good to hear his voice in roles other than the famous video game character, but his role as Brainy wasn't as good as Felix. I can't wait to see (and review) Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2!

Frank Welker did a good Azreal, Gargamel's cat! Is it as good as his Scooby-Doo? Nope, but it's still good! He's well trained in animal voices for cartoons!

Another great addition to the Smurfs universe was made in this film, the introduction of an all female Smurf group! Julia Roberts portrays the leader of this group of Smurfs. She has added a good voice tone to this character. It's a deep voice, but not as deep as Papa Smurfs, who himself was voiced by Mandy Patinkin, who did good too. Michelle Rodriguez and Ellie Kemper did good as Smurf Storm and Smurf Blossom, especially Rodriguez!

I think the animators did a great job designing the characters and bringing them into the CGI world for a third time! Even Gargamel looked like he did in the original cartoon!

So overall, there are alot of good things in this movie (which I mentioned, a lot!) Smurfette's backstory was definitely needed, the voice actors did (yep, I'm saying it again) good and the story was (here it is, one more time) good too!

My review: Smurfs: The Lost Village is ONE TO WATCH! Thanks for reading!