I still Smurf with this movie nearly fourteen years later, at the age of twenty-two. I even watched it with Blue; my Build-a-Bear Smurf that my mom bought me when I was nine. I mean this completely unironically, but The Smurfs (2011) is one of the most important movies of my life, even though I don’t particularly find it to be a good movie anymore.
When I was little, I would spend a lot of time watching The Smurfs cartoons,…