Smurfs: The Lost Village

Smurfs: The Lost Village adalah nama film the Smurfs karya Sony Pictures Animation yang telah dirilis pada 7 April 2017. Tidak seperti dua film sebelumnya yang berdasarkan the Smurfs karya perusahaan ini, film baru ini sepenuhnya animasi CGI. Kelly Asbury (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, dan Gnomeo & Juliet) menjadi sutradaranya, sementara Jordan Kerner (The Smurfs) dan Mary Ellen Bauder (Hotel Transylvania) menjadi produsernya.

Sinopsis

Sahabat karib Smurfette, Brainy, Clumsy, dan Hefty menggunakan peta khusus yang memandu mereka menjelajahi Hutan Terlarang, negeri ajaib yang dipenuhi makhluk ajaib. Petualangan mereka membawa mereka pada perjalanan untuk mengungkap rahasia terbesar dalam sejarah Smurf saat mereka berpacu dengan waktu dan penyihir jahat Gargamel untuk menemukan sebuah desa misterius.

Plot

Saat cerita dimulai, Smurfette mulai bertanya-tanya apa tujuan hidupnya, begitu pula Smurf lainnya yang tidak dapat menjelaskan secara spesifik apa sebenarnya Smurfette itu. Brainy mencoba menggunakan Smurfy Thing Finder ciptaannya untuk menemukan tujuan hidup Smurfette, tetapi sayangnya alat itu meledak saat diuji padanya, membuat Smurfette dan Smurf lainnya tidak memiliki jawaban.

Memutuskan untuk mengalihkan pikiran mereka dari kegagalan mereka menemukan tujuan hidupnya, Smurfette bersama Brainy, Hefty, dan Clumsy pergi menguji kemampuan mereka dengan berselancar di hutan. Namun, saat berlari, Smurfette mendarat di dekat tembok yang memisahkan Hutan Smurf dari Hutan Terlarang dan menemukan sosok yang tampak seperti Smurf bertopeng dedaunan dan pakaian liar lainnya, yang melarikan diri dari Smurfette sebelum ia dapat mengetahui siapa Smurf itu, meskipun Smurf itu menjatuhkan topi Smurf kuning di belakangnya.

Namun, tak lama kemudian, Smurfette mendapati dirinya ditangkap oleh Monty, burung nasar peliharaan Gargamel sang penyihir jahat, yang berusaha menangkap para Smurf agar ia dapat menggunakan esensi mereka untuk menjadikan dirinya penyihir terkuat di dunia. Meskipun Gargamel tidak dapat menggunakan Smurfette untuk esensi Smurfnya karena ia bukan Smurf sungguhan, ia tetap menahannya dan menyuruhnya menyerahkan topi Smurf kuning yang dibawanya. Melalui kuali ajaib, Gargamel menemukan sekelompok Smurf lain yang bersembunyi di lokasi di samping tiga pohon tinggi di Hutan Terlarang.

Tak lama kemudian, Hefty, Brainy, dan Clumsy menyelinap masuk ke kastil Gargamel ketika mereka menyadari Smurfette hilang dan mencoba menyelamatkannya sendiri, tetapi mereka justru ditangkap oleh Gargamel. Mereka akhirnya melarikan diri kembali ke desa, tetapi mendapati diri mereka berhadapan langsung dengan Papa Smurf yang marah dan memutuskan untuk menghukum keempat Smurf dengan menghukum mereka. Sebelum salah satu dari ketiga temannya sempat menolak, Smurfette melangkah maju dan setuju menerima hukuman Papa Smurf, mengusir dirinya dan ketiga temannya keluar dari rumah Papa Smurf sebelum Papa Smurf sempat berkata apa-apa lagi.

Malam itu, Smurfette menyelinap pergi dari desa dengan harapan menemukan Smurf misterius yang dilihatnya di dekat Hutan Terlarang. Namun, ia mendapati dirinya diikuti oleh Hefty, Brainy, dan Clumsy, yang memutuskan untuk bergabung dalam pencariannya hanya karena mereka adalah Tim Smurf. Smurfette mengizinkan mereka ikut, dan mereka pun memasuki Hutan Terlarang. Di sana, mereka bertemu tanaman pemakan Smurf, capung penyembur api, dan kelinci berpendar. Namun, mereka juga bertemu Gargamel dan Azrael yang juga menuju ke arah yang sama, sehingga mereka berusaha menjauhkannya dari jejak mereka selama mungkin.

Namun, pada akhirnya, Smurfette dan teman-temannya mendapati diri mereka ditangkap oleh sekelompok makhluk mirip Smurf yang berpakaian dedaunan dan pakaian liar, yang ternyata adalah Smurf perempuan yang tinggal di desa mereka sendiri bernama Smurfy Grove, dipimpin oleh seorang Smurf perempuan berambut putih bernama Smurfwillow. Para Smurf Girls memperlakukan pengunjung mereka dengan sangat hati-hati, meskipun Smurfstorm curiga bahwa Smurfette memiliki tujuan lain.

Sementara itu, Papa Smurf mengetahui bahwa empat Smurf kecilnya telah hilang dan memutuskan untuk mencari mereka. Dengan bantuan seekor kelinci bercahaya, Papa Smurf menemukan Smurfy Grove dan berhadapan langsung dengan Smurfwillow, yang setara dengan ibunya. Namun momen ini dengan cepat berubah menjadi buruk ketika Gargamel muncul bersama kucingnya, Azrael, dan burung nasarnya, Monty, untuk menyerang mereka dengan Bola Beku. Smurfette tidak terpengaruh oleh Bola Beku karena dia bukan Smurf sungguhan, jadi dia hanya bisa menyaksikan tanpa daya saat Gargamel kembali ke istananya bersama para Smurf dan Gadis Smurf yang ditawan.

Saat Gargamel mempersiapkan ekstraktor esensi Smurf agar ia menjadi penyihir yang lebih kuat, para Smurf mencoba melarikan diri dari penahanan mereka, tetapi dihentikan oleh Gargamel, Azrael, dan Monty. Kemudian Smurfette muncul dan berjanji untuk kembali menjadi alat kejahatan Gargamel agar ia dapat menangkap Smurf yang tersisa dan membuat tuannya semakin kuat. Saat Gargamel mencoba menggunakan sihirnya untuk mengembalikan Smurfette ke sisi jahatnya, mantranya menjadi bumerang, dan Gargamel mendapati dirinya kehilangan kekuatan magis yang ia peroleh dari esensi Smurf yang telah dicurinya. Tiba-tiba sebuah ledakan menyebabkan Gargamel terlempar jauh dari kastilnya, sehingga menyelamatkan para Smurf dan Gadis-Gadis Smurf. Sayangnya, pengorbanan Smurfette untuk teman-temannya justru mengubahnya menjadi segumpal tanah liat biru yang tak bernyawa.

Para Smurf dan Gadis Smurf membawa jenazah Smurfette ke Desa Smurf, tempat mereka mengadakan upacara peringatan dan saling berpegangan tangan untuk berbagi duka. Namun, luapan emosi para Smurf yang berkumpul menyebabkan sihir memancar dari mereka dan menghidupkan kembali jenazah Smurfette, dan semua orang merayakannya dengan gembira. Desa Smurf dan Hutan Smurf bersukacita atas persatuan baru mereka. Pada akhirnya, Smurfette menemukan tujuannya, dan yang terpenting, menjadi Smurf sejati.

Saat kredit film, Gargamel, Azrael, dan Monty berjalan di atas bukit, dan Azrael disalahkan karena telah merusak rencana Gargamel, bukan Monty.

Produksi

2012

Pada 10 Mei 2012, dua minggu setelah mereka mengumumkan produksi The Smurfs 2, Columbia Pictures dan Sony Pictures Animation telah mengembangkan naskah untuk The Smurfs 3 dengan penulis Karey Kirkpatrick dan Chris Poche. Hank Azaria, yang memerankan Gargamel dalam dua film pertama, mengungkapkan bahwa film ketiga "mungkin benar-benar akan membahas asal muasal pertemuan para karakter ini di masa lampau." Rencana untuk sekuel kedua kemudian dibatalkan, dan sebagai gantinya akan diproduksi sebuah reboot yang sepenuhnya berbasis animasi komputer.

2014

Kelly Asbury dikonfirmasi sebagai sutradara pada Maret 2014. Diungkapkan bahwa film ini akan mengeksplorasi asal-usul para Smurf, dan menampilkan perspektif baru terhadap karakter-karakternya, dengan desain dan lingkungan yang lebih menyerupai karya seni yang diciptakan oleh Peyo, kreator waralaba Smurf.

Film ini awalnya dijadwalkan rilis pada 14 Agustus 2015, tetapi pada 1 Mei 2014, tanggal rilis diundur menjadi 5 Agustus 2016.

Patrick Mate (desainer seni) dan Brandon Jeffords (kepala cerita) dilibatkan dalam proyek ini pada tahun 2014.

2015

Jordan Kerner bertindak sebagai produser, dengan Mary Ellen Bauder sebagai co-produser. Pada 14 Juni 2015, Sony Pictures Animation mengonfirmasi judul asli Get Smurfy, beserta cuplikan pertama film tersebut.

Pada 16 Januari 2015, Mandy Patinkin ditambahkan ke dalam daftar pemeran film petualangan animasi tersebut untuk mengisi suara Papa Smurf, yang sebelumnya diisi suara oleh Jonathan Winters dalam film-film live-action/CGI. Pada 14 Juni 2015, Demi Lovato diumumkan sebagai pengisi suara Smurfette, dan Rainn Wilson sebagai Gargamel. Sejak perilisan The Smurfs 2 pada tahun 2013, dua pengisi suara Smurf dari waralaba sebelumnya telah meninggal dunia, Jonathan Winters yang mengisi suara Papa Smurf, dan Anton Yelchin, yang mengisi suara Clumsy. Film ini didedikasikan untuk mengenang Winters dan Yelchin. Frank Welker, yang mengisi suara kucing peliharaan Gargamel, Azrael, adalah satu-satunya pengisi suara yang mengulangi perannya dari film-film live-action.

Pada Maret 2015, tanggal rilis diundur lagi menjadi 31 Maret 2017.

2016

Pada 11 Februari 2016, Joe Manganiello, Jack McBrayer, dan Danny Pudi diumumkan akan mengisi suara Hefty, Clumsy, dan Brainy. Keesokan harinya, dikonfirmasi bahwa judul film tersebut telah diubah menjadi Smurfs: The Lost Village.

Pada Maret 2016, tanggal rilis diundur untuk terakhir kalinya menjadi 7 April 2017.

Trailer pertama film ini dirilis secara daring pada 14 Agustus 2016. Sebuah trailer teaser dirilis pada 22 September 2016, dan trailer kedua dirilis pada 21 November 2016.

Pada 22 September 2016, diumumkan bahwa LStar Capital dan Wanda Pictures akan ikut mendanai film ini.

2017

Pada 8 Februari 2017, Kelly Asbury mengonfirmasi bahwa film ini kurang lebih merupakan reboot dari waralaba utama dan filosofinya secara keseluruhan (dan lebih luas lagi, seri film trilogi Sony Pictures) yang berfokus pada penggambaran ulang dan pemulihan visi Peyo tentang waralaba dalam bentuk film dimensional, dan sebuah film mandiri dari seri-seri duologi live-action sebelumnya. Serupa dengan seri film trilogi yang diusulkan pada tahun 2008, Kelly Asbury menghabiskan waktu untuk meneliti komik aslinya, film hibrida live-action, dan adaptasi serial TV tahun 1980-an secara ekstensif --- dan mengamati dengan saksama karya seni Peyo dalam komik untuk diterjemahkan ke dalam animasi 3D agar terasa seolah-olah Peyo sendiri yang mendesain film tersebut. Mereka memastikan bahwa film tersebut tidak boleh melanggar aturan yang telah ditetapkan oleh waralaba selama bertahun-tahun -- terutama berfokus pada filosofi yang ditetapkan untuk serial TV tahun 1980-an.

Trailer ketiga dan terakhir dirilis pada 13 Maret 2017.

Smurfs: The Lost Village dirilis di bioskop-bioskop Amerika Serikat pada 7 April 2017.

Smurfs: The Lost Village dirilis dalam format Digital HD pada 6 Juli 2017, dan dalam format DVD dan Blu-ray pada 11 Juli 2017.

Warisan

Sebulan sebelum perilisan film, sub-seri komik Smurfs yang dikenal sebagai "Girls' Village Collection" dimulai pada Maret 2017 --- sebuah adaptasi resmi film ini yang berlangsung di kontinuitas buku komik, yang memperkenalkan Gadis-Gadis Smurf dalam waralaba tersebut sejak saat itu. Hingga saat ini, Studio Peyo terus membuat cerita-cerita baru yang berpusat pada adaptasi tersebut.

Komik-komik utama juga mengikuti filosofi filmnya, seperti Smurfette yang digambarkan memiliki keinginan untuk secara teratur melakukan berbagai tugas untuk para Smurf dan melakukan tugas/ekspedisi yang berisiko dan penuh petualangan seperti yang ditunjukkan dalam cerita komik yang lebih baru seperti "The Smurfs and the Flight of the Storks", "The Smurfs and the Lost Children", dan "Grandir avec les Schtroumpfs".

Empat bulan setelah perilisan film, sebuah serial televisi baru diumumkan oleh Peyo Productions. Serial ini terinspirasi oleh film dan filosofinya yang direvisi untuk waralaba utama secara keseluruhan, sementara serial televisinya tetap sepenuhnya setia pada komiknya (diparafrasekan sebagai "DNA Smurf murni"). Waralaba ini juga akan terus mengikuti gaya seni film dan seterusnya, yang ditampilkan dalam beberapa entri waralaba dan seterusnya seperti Smurfs Magic Match dan The Smurfs' Society.

Development

Themes

The central theme of Smurfs: The Lost Village is Smurfette’s "lack" of an identity - or rather her incomplete understanding of who she is. The rest of the Smurfs are defined by what they do or by a key element of their personality like Brainy or Clumsy. Although Smurfette is a member of the village, the rest of the Smurfs don’t know what a Smurfette is. Papa Smurf puts it this way: "Smurfette’s name doesn’t tell us anything about her. It doesn’t tell us who she is or what she does", which puts out the theme of how you're defined not by what you do, but by who you are.

The power of teamwork was also huge theme in the film. In the first half of the film the boy and girl Smurfs are very focused on their differences. Yet, in the end they are able to put their differences aside and come together to save each other and fight their enemy.

Another major theme is the power of friendship. Smurfette is joined by her best friends on this grand adventure. Along the way, their friendship is put to the test. Ultimately, it is their deep bond that gives Smurfette the strength to do what she must to fulfill her true destiny.

Software Usage

In search of the lost village, Smurfette, Hefty, Brainy, and Clumsy encounter a magical river that hurtles them downstream. But this river is different: it levitates above the ground. The process of building the river began in animation. “They had a rig which was basically just tubes,” explains Spencer Lueders, "and they would set the size of the tubes, the length of them, and then they were able to animate them moving around as they saw fit."

Once that animation was approved, the tubes would be sent to the FX department at Imageworks. Lueders was then able to extract the parametric detail of the tubes in order to get the direction they were flowing. That meant the system would know which way the river was flowing, after which artists could create some vectors off the tubes that would define the gravity.

Another element - and another challenge - was the bioluminescence element of the ribbon of water. This gave the river a magical quality. It was achieved with invected particles that were invected using the velocity field from the original FLIP sims, but they also had emissive properties to provide purples and greens and blues.

Team Smurf also passes through a multitude of vegetation. That was modeled in 3D, with Houdini used to propagate the foliage and trees and other vegetation. "Basically," describes Lueders, "we used various point clouds, and we would import the terrain that we would get from the modeling department and then we would be able to paint where we wanted grassy patches or clovers, moss mounds, things like that."<ref>https://www.sidefx.com/community/sony-imageworks-smurfs-the-lost-village/</ref>

Character Development

In earlier concept art, orange hair was considered for a couple of the Smurf Girls.

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At a later point in production, the girls' general designs for the primarily featured girls were overhauled a number of times as well. Storm did not have a clover on her hat or her pack of bow and arrows, Blossom's flower on her hat was smaller and was yellow with white petals, and Willow had a longer dress and a necklace instead of a vest. Lily's design was mostly unchanged from production, with the only notable difference being that her flower on her hat was smaller and yellow.

Monty's design was overhauled various times as well. At one point in development, he was female. When that decision was abandoned, he was turned into a dragon, and his earlier features included having a longer tail. At a later point in production, he resembled his final design and was changed back into a bird, but he had a blue beak.

Unused Characters

The Art of Smurfs: The Lost Village features concept art of a large amount of fauna of the Forbidden Forest included in the book that does not appear in the movie, such as piranhas, birds, and bees.

Among the other characters that were cut were humans from the past, which included Vikings who existed in the Belgian city of Bruges.

Other versions of the story featured cameos from Mother Nature, Shakespeare's Nick Bottom, and Johan and Peewit.

A number of other Smurf characters had designs made for the film that did not get in: Harmony, Dreamy, Crazy, Enamored, and Party Planner, with Harmony's role being taken over by Smooth Smurf from The Smurfs 2.

World Building

The production crew wanted to make sure the movie looked as much as possible like the original comics Peyo had drawn — not only in terms of the characters, but also for the environments and how shots were composed to make it look as much like the original material.

Noelle and Patrick Mate (character designer) are both French, which gave the animators an advantage as they had grown up reading the comics: they were already familiar with the Smurfs characters and universe. In an interview, Jessica Fernandes explains that she was first exposed to Smurfs in the Hanna-Barbera era, via the television series. She also stated that their process started with the question: What makes a "Smurf" a "Smurf?".

The production design team focused on Peyo’s aesthetics in terms of creating a lot of depth. Fernandes wanted to make sure the crew didn’t have flat or uninteresting surfaces. In an initial test for the Smurf village, it turned out that they build the ground too flat and that was really unappealing. Because the Smurfs are so small (only a foot tall), they needed to make sure that you felt you were down low, on the ground, with them. At this level, the viewer would see things differently. A tiny hill might feel like a mountain, it was so much better when you saw elements overlapping, etc.

Even the way that Peyo drew things in relation to the Smurfs was something we looked at. Everything is always on a larger scale in relation to them. For example, if a Smurf sits in a chair, the chair is much larger than him. If he walks up to a table, he has to reach up, or get up on a stool to reach the top of the table. Door handles are always twice as big as a Smurf’s hands. Peyo did this to make the Smurfs feel young and child-like. We wanted to do that too, make them feel small and charming.

Plot Changes/Scene Deletions

Original Storylines

A couple of storylines were created for the film that did not get in, with many of them involving humans.

Many iterations of the stories created were cut together in order to establish what Smurfette's struggle was - some with more visuals than explanation, some with Smurfette narrating, and some with Papa Smurf telling her tale.

As mentioned above, old development featured humans and Vikings living in Bruges. Then came a story introducing the ancestors of Gargamel. Head of story artist Brandon Jeffords says that the writers even toyed around with the idea of Azrael actually being a human turned into a cat, but it never went far.

There were originally completely different storylines involving time travel (akin to the abandoned project of The Smurfs 3), versions involving anti-Smurf movements, and versions involving pro-Smurf festivals.

Earlier versions of the finalized story dug deeper into the Smurf Girls' origins and played out that Willow's name was "Sigrid" and the film would have originally played with a love story between her and Papa Smurf.

Smurfberry Blast

The original beginning featured the Smurfs playing a paintball-like game. It was going to be used to establish Team Smurf.

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Brainy's Experiment

Brainy's experiment also had an extended scene which he re-explained Smurfette's history of being created by Gargamel, which explains why it is difficult to test his Smurfy Thing Finder on her.

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Gargamel's Lair

Another cut scene involved Team Smurf going to Gargamel's lair to retrieve his secret book of spells, which came from an earlier version of the film where Smurfette was not captured by Monty.<ref>https://moviesanywhere.com/movie/smurfs-the-lost-village/bonus/smurfs-the-lost-village/features/deleted-scenes</ref>

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Earlier versions of the story dug a bit deeper into the Smurf Girls' origins, but due to the change in plot and time constraints, it was changed.

Music

In October 2016, it was confirmed that Christopher Lennertz will be composing the score for the film.

In December 2016, it was reported that singer Meghan Trainor had recorded a song for the film titled “I’m a Lady”, which was released as a single.

Movie Songs

1. It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
2. Careless Whisper
3. Here It Comes Now - Brothers and Sisters
4. Heroes (We Could Be) - Alesso (featuring Tove Lo)
5. Delirious (Boneless) - Steve Aoki, Chris Lake, & Tujamo (featuring Kid Ink)
6. Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
7. You Will Always Find Me in Your Heart - Shaley Scott
8. I'm a Lady - Meghan Trainor

Trivia

• This is the first time Sony Pictures Animation releases three films in the same year, while the other films are The Emoji Movie and The Star.
• This is the first film in the Smurfs series not to be released in July.
• This film earned tepid reviews from critics, and although it has done quite well overseas, it has failed to make any traction in America. In the United States, it opened alongside Going in Style and The Case for Christ and was projected to gross around $16–20 million in the opening weekend from 3,602 theaters. It ended up opening to $13.2 million, marking the lowest debut of the Smurfs franchise and finishing 3rd at the box office.
  • In addition, this film turned out to be the last film of the Sony Pictures Animation Smurf franchise, as it was the consequence of the sub-franchise intending to be part of the original lineup of the trilogy films to begin with. Although, it was shortly announced four months after the film's release that the umbrella franchise would be getting a new animated series which would happen four years after The Lost Village's release. Likewise, SPA's rights to the Smurfs property expired by the time the 2021 series entered production, as Nickelodeon gained the licensing rights to the franchise in six countries (among them the US and Canada) the previous year, aired said series on its channel in the US, and would put another Smurfs movie in production with corporate sibling Paramount (which initially had the film rights to the franchise before Sony took over) in 2022.
• When Farmer is trying to explain what a Smurfette is, the King Smurf scarecrow can be seen in the background.
• The design for the snail that appears in the very beginning of the movie is developed into the ones seen in the 2021 TV series.
• The song that Smooth Smurf plays on his saxophone is named “Careless Whisper” by George Michael.
• To celebrate the then-brand-new film's release, five-foot statues of Papa Smurf and Smurfette were created by hand and set up last week under the supervision of character designer Patrick Mate.
• John Goodman was originally considered to voice Papa Smurf.
• Joe Manganiello voices Hefty Smurf in this movie. His wife Sofía Vergara appeared in the live-action movies.
• Ellie Kemper and Ariel Winter, Smurfblossom and Smurflily's voice actresses, had previously voiced Crackle and Sofia on Sofia the First.
• Brainy's smurfway makes its debut here as an unnamed invention that he can be seen driving with at the beginning of the movie. It will properly be called a smurfway in the 2021 TV series.
• Xavier Fagnon and Jérémy Prévost voice Farmer and Jokey in the French dub, respectively. In the 2021 TV series, the two voice actors appear on the show as a vast majority of characters.
• Alan Mechem voices Passerby, the Smurf that speaks to Grouchy and Smurfette at the very start. Voicing a Smurf was one of his life-long dreams, being a fan of the franchise since childhood.
• In the Hebrew dub, you can hear Gargamel (voiced by comedian Kobi Maimon) during the end credits, which were kept in English: "Why didn't they translate all the names in Hebrew? Do they think we want to read this in English? I'm sorry for whoever needed to write this whole nonsense!"

Goofs

• Gargamel finds out of the Smurf he captured is Smurfette. She grabs the bars of the cage, but the position of the door hinges changes, switching from her right to her left, back and forth.
• When Gargamel tries using a freeze ball on Smurfette, and it doesn't work, he states freeze balls are only supposed to work on real Smurfs; however, earlier in the movie he used one to freeze a mouse.
• Gargamel's one-and-only top tooth keeps changing from the right side to the left side of his mouth.
• As the Smurfs escape from Monty into the log that serves as the entrance to the village, the log goes up as they cross to the other side, then comes back down to hit Monty on the head. In the next shot, however, the log is just coming down on the other side, meaning that the log should still be up on Monty's side.
• In Gargamel's lair, he says he has 12 "freeze balls", then he throws 1 at the mouse and as "Team Smurf" escapes, one falls on him allowing the team to escape. When he goes to use them again, he uses 13 and holding a 14th in his hand at the end of the scene.
• After Gargamel is defeated, all of the Smurfs (except the Smurf Girls) are in cages, with a lot more than 13 Smurfs in them.
• During the end of I'm A Lady, Blossom can be seen twice, one in the wide crowd of Smurfs and Smurf Girls (in the front row), while the other can be seen dancing with Farmer and an ordinary Smurf.

Reception

Box office

Smurfs: The Lost Village grossed $45 million in North America and $152.2 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $197.2 million, against a production budget of $60 million.

In North America, the film opened alongside Going in Style and The Case for Christ and was projected to gross around $16–20 million in its opening weekend from 3,602 theaters.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-movie-projector-smurfs-20170403-story.html%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405140248/http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-movie-projector-smurfs-20170403-story.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170405003213/http://variety.com/2017/film/box-office/box-office-smurfs-the-lost-village-going-in-style-boss-baby-1202022784/</ref> It ended up opening to $13.2 million, marking the lowest debut of the Smurfs franchise by a wide margin and finishing 3rd at the box office.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210212004756/https://deadline.com/2017/04/smurfs-the-lost-village-going-in-style-boss-baby-beauty-and-the-beast-box-office-1202064314/</ref>

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 40% based on 97 reviews and an average rating of 4.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Smurfs: The Lost Village may satisfy very young viewers and hardcore Smurfaholics, but its predictable story and bland animation continue the franchise's recent mediocre streak."<ref>https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/smurfs_the_lost_village/%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125054717/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/smurfs_the_lost_village</ref> On Metacritic, the film has a score 40 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210122085527/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/smurfs-the-lost-village</ref> Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, an improvement over the "A−" score earned by both previous Smurfs films.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150217211441/https://m.cinemascore.com/</ref> In 2018, the film was awarded The ReFrame Stamp in the 2017 Narrative & Animated Feature Recipients category.<ref>https://womenandhollywood.com/reframe-spotlights-gender-balanced-films-and-tv-with-new-stamp/%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225114627/https://womenandhollywood.com/reframe-spotlights-gender-balanced-films-and-tv-with-new-stamp/</ref>

Alonzo Duralde of TheWrap wrote, "It's significant that two female writers have taken a character who's mainly just existed to be cute and seductive and turned her into a full-fledged member of this universe."<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/smurfs-the-lost-village-review-demi-lovato-2017/</ref> Owen Glieberman of Variety said, "It's a pure digital fantasy, with elegant and tactile animation, so it's more true to the Smurf spirit, and should perform solidly."<ref name="VarietyReview">https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/smurfs-the-lost-village-review-1202016213/</ref>

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Smurfs: The Lost Village is a mediocre effort that nonetheless succeeds in its main goal of keeping its blue characters alive for future merchandising purposes."<ref>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/smurfs-lost-village-review-988818</ref>

Taglines

A whole new world awaits.

They were never alone.

Small is big.

New friendships are only an adventure away.

More to the story? They were never alone?

Enter a secret world, and see the Smurfs through new eyes.

- Promotional taglines

Related Media & Merchandise

DVD, Blu-ray and 4K releases

DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra 4K HD releases of Smurfs: The Lost Village were all released on February 7, 2017. Two versions have been released:

• The normal release.
• The Smurfs 3-Movie Collection.

The Art of Smurfs: The Lost Village

The Art of Smurfs: The Lost Village is a book showing the various concepts of Smurfs: The Lost Village, including details of influences.

Books

A book adaptation, titled Smurfs: The Lost Village Movie Novelization, was written by Stacia Deutsch.

Food & Beverages

Both Burger King and McDonald's ran promotional toylines for the movie.

The Little Bites company also did a promotional tie-in with the Smurfs.

Videos

Official Trailers/Teasers

• File:The Lost Village - Official "Lost" Trailer • The Smurfs
• File:The Lost Village – Teaser Trailer • The Smurfs
• File:The Lost Village – Official International Trailer • The Smurfs
• File:SMURFS- THE LOST VILLAGE - Official Trailer -2 (HD)

Behind the Scenes

• File:The Lost Village – Rainn Wilson Getting into Character • The Smurfs

References

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