Jam Master Jay

haha shut the smurf up!

Panda Phil

"The creators of Shrek." present our own personal Hell.

treszoks

Smurf it. We'll do it live!

Goldberg74

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY that I would see this film.

TGM

no matter how you slice it, its en epic fail...

but, for Gargamel, I say Alan Cummings.

spankasmurf

I hope there's spanking!

MasterofDVD

I would rant about about Lee and the trash that Alvin and the Chipmunks was but I would rather state that David Cross, the other dimming star in that turd of a movie, would be a good Gargamel. Sadly he would need a toupee to pull it off.

ardathbey

you obviously mean smurfing right?

Giles

and here's the movie poster (or one of many many more):



"smurf-tastic!"

Groucho

Congratulations to James Cameron for making this the most profitable film of all time!

Jon2

You beat me to it, Groucho.

RocShemp

So this no longer live action, I take it.

Giles

^ I still thinks it a combo of both CGI smurfs and live action Gargamel.

honestly though - do American kids even know what a smurf is nowadays??

the current imdb rumour for the role of Gargamel is actor Wallace Shawn - I can see that, kind of... but I'm picturing more... uh Scott (30 Rock) Adsit (with a higher pitched voice)

edstein

Live action Smurfs suck, literally. I just recently watched some of the live action smurf porn through a link over on the xcritc site.

Giles

I've heard of blue balls.... but that's just ... wrong.

RocShemp

Your mention of Wallace Shawn made me go straight to IMDB. That "Actors That You Can't Believe Are Dead" thread made an ass out of me.

Palaver

Nice

Quack

Another link.....I think the pictures here look great.

http://www.ugo.com/movies/exclusive-...aracter-design

RocShemp

Well, I'm glad to see they didn't take the opportunity to update (read: screw up) the character designs. We don't need any metal, gansta, skater, or emo Smurfs.

Still, I just don't see this working as a movie unless they go for an all out medieval fantasy adventure vibe. Which, despite the setting, isn't for what the show was known.

toddly6666

Up to play GARGAMEL will be:

Nick Martin

It's directed by Raja Gosnell. That alone should tell you how good it could potentially be.

Sean O'Hara

Why is a medieval alchemist in 19th Century dress in front of a steampunkish background?

Why would they choose Generic Smurf for the poster? Wouldn't Brainy, Hefty, Papa, Smurfette, or any others who are visually distinctive make more sense?

RocShemp

That's Brainy after he first put on contact lenses.

DRG

The Chipmunks franchise had been off the radar for just as long before they relaunched it, and look how that turned out.

RocShemp

Which is exactly why Sony is going forward with this.