Articles tagged with: smurfs
Be honest - when you heard that The Smurfs was going to be remade into a movie, a tiny part of you died. Well, there was no need. Further details about the Smurfs movie have emerged, and it looks like it'll be a masterpiece. The Smurfs will take the gritty realism of The Dark Knight and pair it with the knowing pizazz of Iron Man, while painstakingly staying true to the Smurf canon to keep the purists sated. What makes us so certain? Simple, because the director of Beverly Hills Chihuahua is directing The Smurfs movie. Beverly Hills Chihuahua! Squeeee!
It's become quite sad how strapped for ideas Hollywood has become. Not content with raiding everything from our childhoods - Transformers, Thundercats, The Smurfs - and not even leaving it alone after travesties such as Starsky and Hutch or Miami Vice, the top bods have had to look to things that haven't even left the collective consciousness of the public.
Take the Sex and the City movie, for example. Rehashing a series that had finished on TV less than five years previously seemed to hecklerspray as something of a cynical cash-in. And it worked. Did it ever work . So who can blame the struggling execs in tinseltown for turning to another much-loved TV property with a push at converting it for the big screen, even though the topsoil on its grave is still fresh?
Yes, friends, there are rumours they're re-doing Friends. But for now, even though everyone in the world seems to be harping on about it, these rumours are nothing but that. There may be hope yet.
