A Smurfin' Movie Deal
Fans of a certain animated tribe of small, blue woodland creatures haven't gotten a lot of love lately: No new TV episodes, no old TV episodes on DVD (outside of a couple of import releases), no real news on a long-rumored movie.
Now, finally, things are looking rather smurfin'.
A 3-D, CGI-animated Smurfs feature film will bow in theaters in 2008, Daily Variety reported Tuesday. The extravaganza from Paramount's Nickelodeon Movies will be the first in a planned trilogy, it said. According to Newsweek, the project has been trying to get off the ground since at least 2003.
Word of the done deal comes a week after DreamWorks and Paramount set a July 4, 2007, release date for The Transformers, another animated TV series due for a big-screen makeover. But while Transformers fandom has thrived, fueled by new series and product, the smaller legions of Smurf faithful have waited.
Sure the Smurfs seem harmless, but for years they confused children's knowledge of English grammar the way Barney the Dinosaur confuses knowledge of nursery rhymes.
Smurf this, smurf that, I'm feeling smurfy. Let's call the whole thing off. And while I'm at it, I was a Transformers fan but have no great wish to see them on the big screen. (I've never seen the 1986 Transformers movie.)
Something, anything original, please.
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