A bad movie

To be honest, I really didn’t like the first installment but my youngest daughter really enjoyed it, so I bought this on dvd (thank God, it was pretty cheap) for her as a gift for St Nicolas (some Dutch version of Santa Claus) and I ended up watching it with her. Eventually, it wasn't really worse than the first installment but since it was a sequel, I still gave it a lower rating. The main issue I had with this flick, is that they took the same misguided formula and did exactly the same thing with it with an even more underwhelming result. At least, the first time around, I was quite generous and I gave them some few extra points for at least trying and those little blue guys did look pretty good. But, for this sequel, even the novelty was not there anymore and the whole thing became this giant snooze party and a massive cash-grab for Sony hoping that the parents won't check the other available family features when they go out with their kids. Even though the Smurfs were not my favorite cartoon when I was a kid, there was still something charming about them but it is now long gone with this franchise.

4/10