- 6
...a surprisingly tolerable film for adults.
—Neil Genzlinger New York Times
- 5
In mocking the Smurfcentricity of that original show, the movie rises above its source material just enough to dull the dread many adults share in realizing their kids will want to see it.
—Roger Moore Chicago Tribune
- 5
...utterly kid-friendly.
—Scott Bowles USA Today
- 5
Adorable and annoying, patently unnecessary yet kinda sweet, it's a calculated commercial enterprise with little soul but an appreciable amount of heart.
—Justin Chang Variety
- 4
...recycl(es) discarded bits from other celluloid Happy Meals like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield, and Hop into something half animated, half live action, and all careful studio calculation.
—Keith Staskiewicz Entertainment Weekly
- 4
It's a Smurfs movie. What did you expect?
—L. Thompson E!
- 4
...a boring, lazy, clumsily staged, overly lit, unnecessarily 3D-ed contraption...
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 4
Actual kids may find this fun, but for adults, watching The Smurfs may feel a little too much like trying to wrangle an overcrowded kiddie birthday party.
—Tasha Robinson Onion AV Club
- 4
For all the digitally enhanced Smurfness, the results are remarkably mirthless.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter
- 3
This animated-live action hybrid is really more 3-D disaster than family comedy. Even Neil Patrick Harris, who has proved he can save just about any sinking ship, cannot make this boat float.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 2
Whatever charm or quaint benevolence the Belgian cartoon figures used to have has been scrubbed clean by a Hollywood who knows how to hammer out the hackneyed hit material. So out goes all the fun, in comes all the formula. By the end, the obnoxious Alvin and the Chipmunks starts to look like a stroke of genius.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
- 0
Ineptly directed by Raja Gosnell -- the genius behind the Scooby-Doo features, Big Momma's House, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua -- this cheesy-looking flick has lousy animation, worse special effects and the most headache-inducing, blurry 3-D since Clash of the Titans.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post