The Smurfs Movie...?

I don’t have much that has been stirring my interest in the movies recently. I did read a bit of news on The Smurfs Movie that caught my eye. Hank Azaria has been cast as Gargamel. There is an inside joke to along with Gargamel, but we’ll just keep that an inside joke.

I am not really looking forward to this movie. It’s part live-action and part computer-animation. This usually turns me away. I don’t usually like those hybrid type of movies. I did enjoy Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, but there hasn’t really been a big movie since that has worked the combination well. However, there is an interesting cast.

The Smurfs will apparently be a bother to a real life couple, played by Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays (Paul Blart: Mall Cop). Hank Azaria of Simpsons fame, will play a live-action Gargamel. Katy Perry will be Smurfette, Alan Cumming (Goldeneye, X-Men) will be Gutsy Smurf, George Lopez as Grouchy Smurf, and Quentin Tarantino as Brainy Smurf. Yes, Tarantino. So at the very least, that will be interesting. The best part of the casting is Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf, he’s done voices for the Smurfs in past TV specials and besides that he is just awesome. He is one of those great ’60s stand up comedians that are just funny and classy (well… mostly classy). Plus, he was in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The best comedy ensemble movie ever.

I’m most likely not going to see this movie for several reasons:

A) I’m not a huge Smurfs fan.

B) It is probably going to suck.

C) I might see it if I am bored and there is nothing else playing but…

D) …it’s release date is set for August 3^rd , 2011 and the summer is always a busy season for movies. Especially with the last Harry Potter movie slated for a July 15^th release and of course The First Avenger: Captain America will hopefully be released July 22^nd. So, I will not be in want of a good movie two summers from now.

E) Raja Gosnell’s last directional effort was Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

In other childhood memory squashing news; Speedy Gonzalez will be made into a live-action/CG-animation movie. The voice of Speedy, who else but George Lopez. New Line/Warner Brothers will be developing and the script is in the hands of the writers of Garfield. I feel rest-assured, how about you?