Directed by Chris Miller, not to be confused with director Christopher Miller who co-directed The Lego Movie, doesn't quite have a finetuned vision here for Smurfs.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

It’s a forgettable trash heap that offers nothing new, funny, or interesting to the average viewer, that isn’t executed infinitely better elsewhere.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jul 28, 2025

I can’t help but wonder how could the film have smurfed up so badly?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 25, 2025

Fight the monsoon blues with a zany action adventure filled with intergalactic wizards, sentient books and a smirking cat

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

When you see Papa Smurf DJ'ing you realise the team here know nothing about the original Smurfs at all. Too many songs, not enough plot and a bad attempt to re-invent Smurf folklore results in a real mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2025

The movie's a mess, and worst of all, it's just a boring mess.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2025

It's colorful and fairly fast-paced, with a strong voice cast and positive messages for kids, but director Chris Miller's take on the little blue gnomes falls short of true magic.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2025

Hitting her second film as a voice actor, Rihanna knocks it out of the park.  Her cool, relaxed, subtle vibe works well for Smurfette, especially when other characters are spinning out around her. Smurfs is fun and I dug it.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2025

When I first encountered them on Saturday-morning television as a kid, the Smurfs cartoons struck me as inane, inert and innocuous, and the passage of 40-plus years has not made them seem any more ane, ert, or nocuous.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2025

Plainly said, Smurfs just never becomes truly engaging as an overall story for young viewers.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2025

Sadly Smurfs does nothing to bring the property back to its hay day.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 22, 2025

They keep trying to make the Smurfs hip instead of telling a good story. The Smurfs are dancing to hip-hop beats and making modern jokes. It feels like old people trying to be cool.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2025

For the most part, “Smurfs” hews to the textbook silliness of CGI-generated action and attitude humor, only this time so needlessly zigging and zagging it barely has time to convincingly sell its ultimate message of strength in togetherness.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2025

There’s nothing smurfy about Smurfs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 21, 2025

Is it too much to ask for a kids’ movie to skip the value judgments on food and body size?

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jul 20, 2025

This new animated musical loads up on lore and expands the Smurfs mythos, but forgets to smuggle in anything resembling heart.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2025

I’ve arbitrarily opted out of animation and kids’ movies because I cannot watch everything, but “Smurfs” was the first time that I felt welcomed back, which may not be a good sign for this film.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2025

Beyond some fun discoveries,...several gags are exhausted by their repetition, the story becomes lulled in its numerous detours...and magic is revealed as a suppressor of all conflict, eroding the story's dramatic strength. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2025

The cinematic equivalent of “this meeting could have been an email.”

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 19, 2025

Overall, Smurfs feels like a disaster waiting to happen, with its incredibly general and overused plot lines, characters that are barely explored or given any depth, and unimpressive use of the technical elements

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2025