Commander PK Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 First Transformers and now this. I admit I watched the Smurfs. This should be interesting. http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/eo/20050719/112182198000.html A Smurfin' Movie Deal Tuesday July 19 6:13 PM ET Fans of a certain animated tribe of small, blue woodland creatures haven't gotten a lot of love lately: No new TV episodes, no old TV episodes on DVD (outside of a couple of import releases), no real news on a long-rumored movie. Now, finally, things are looking rather smurfin'. A 3-D, CGI-animated Smurfs feature film will bow in theaters in 2008, Daily Variety reported Tuesday. The extravaganza from Paramount's Nickelodeon Movies will be the first in a planned trilogy, it said. According to Newsweek, the project has been trying to get off the ground since at least 2003. Word of the done deal comes a week after DreamWorks and Paramount set a July 4, 2007, release date for The Transformers, another animated TV series due for a big-screen makeover. But while Transformers fandom has thrived, fueled by new series and product, the smaller legions of Smurf faithful have waited. "Dude, a Smurf movie?" went a message-board post on TheMovieBlog.com last month after Newsweek noted a film was nigh. "That's the smurfing best thing I've heard in smurfing forever." Like the Transformers, the Smurfs were a phenomenon of the 1980s, unless one lived in Europe, where the characters have been mainstays since 1958, when Belgian artist Pierre Culliford, better known as Peyo, introduced them in the comic pages. The new movie's planned release date supposedly is tied to Smurfdom's upcoming 50th birthday. Peyo's creations--the aforementioned small, blue woodland creatures who lived in homes shaped like mushrooms, whistled happy tunes, conjugated the word "smurf" in any way they saw fit, and named themselves Ramones-style (Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, etc.)--blew up as big as any Transformer robot in 1981 when The Smurfs debuted on NBC. The Hanna-Barbera-produced series won two Daytime Emmys, moved much merchandise, from Smurf-Berry Crunch cereal to countless figurines, and dominated Saturday morning TV until 1990. A 1983 big-screen adventure, The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, grossed $11 million, per the box-office site The-Numbers.com, even though it was nothing more than a retitled, redubbed version of a 1976 Belgian-produced movie. There was no word on voice actors for the new film. The Smurfs' family recently lost Gargamel, the bad, and Baby Smurf, the good, in the death of performer Paul Winchell. Don Messick, who voiced Papa Smurf and others, died in 1997. Smurfette, meanwhile, lives. Lucille Bliss, who gave high-pitched voice to the tribe's lone female member, is 76, and still working. As for Peyo, he died in 1992. His progeny, however, has kept right on their merry way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Alright, I'll ask. Who else want to see Smurfette get nekkid? Really though, this could be cool. I admit, I watched them too. and I am AMPED for transformers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stupidsuck Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 oh how I miss smurf berry crunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsBry Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 http://www.peesack.com/cartoons/smurfette/Smurfette.html Here's a clip of Smurfette shakin' her moneymaker. I wonder if it'll be in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdowwe Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 This must be too good to be true. The Smurfs were one of my all time favorite Saturday morning cartoons....you remember, when Saturday morning actually had cartoons worth watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 no NO NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXREDSKINS44 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Originally posted by Cdowwe This must be too good to be true. The Smurfs were one of my all time favorite Saturday morning cartoons....you remember, when Saturday morning actually had cartoons worth watching. Yeah I remember those days. There are no decent cartoons anymore!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 what about Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Smurfette was a dirty little whore...and I liked it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebornempowered Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 A little over three years ago a friend and I were remembering the smurfs and how they used smurf as a noun, adjective, and verb for just about anything. So we started doing it. We only see each other 4 or 5 times a year but we just about wet ourselves laughing every time we remember me slipping on that water and falling on my smurf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I think this movie has the potential to freak me out if these things look too real! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoCommiesGo Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I watched the Smurfs and I will go see the movie. You know damn well Smurfette was making a ton of smurf on the side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I know Papa Smurf was smurfing smurfette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander PK Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Didn't Gargamel create smurfette to cause all the male smurfs to smurf over her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander PK Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Originally posted by GoSkinsGo I watched the Smurfs and I will go see the movie. You know damn well Smurfette was making a ton of smurf on the side. Yeah, there's no question she was smurfing on the side. Plenty of clients to smurf, and the best job security in the whole village! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 yikes, look at her now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander PK Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Wow, she has done way to much smurphing over the years. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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