Lots of little lessons are interspersed throughout “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” but the film itself is an example that even the big, powerful, well-paid grown-ups who run movie studios can learn a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then we get to the Smurfs movie, which has a hundred characters who are Smurfs, and not one of them is as funny, or wry, or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Pat Padua, Special To The Washington Post “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” the third theatrical feature centering on tiny blue humanoid forest creatures ...

Going into Smurfs: The Lost Village, you might expect a few things, and as the third film in this franchise in the last six years, they might not all be good. But what you might not expect is for the ...

Hollywood is so enamored of existing intellectual property, sequels, reboots and franchises that a 60-year-old joke from Belgian cartoonist Peyo continues to be recycled, refurbished and redone. Its ...

The Smurfs, from left, Brainy, Jokey, Smurfette, Papa Smurf and Hefty, are back in action in the animated adventure 'Smurfs: The Lost Village.' (Sony Pictures Animation / Columbia Pictures) When the ...

With the voices of Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, Joe Manganiello and Mandy Patinkin. 2 1/2 out of 4 stars In the first few minutes of the animated film "Smurfs: The Lost Village," I couldn't help but ...

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It takes a village of Smurfs to add up to one personality, but in their third film the blue mascots of cute wisely shed live action. If you go with your family to see “Smurfs: The Lost Village” (and ...

Lots of little lessons are interspersed throughout “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” but the film itself is an example that even the big, powerful, well-paid grown-ups who run movie studios can learn a ...

First, let us sincerely thank the makers of “Smurfs: The Lost Village’” for what they didn’t do. They didn’t allow any Smurfs to break wind or talk about poop. They didn’t substitute the verb “smurf’” ...