Turns out that Pat is an uptight parent entertaining equally snobbish couples at his son’s excruciatingly unfunny birthday party sequence.ĭiscovering that Gargamel has a show in Paris, the group - with nondescript tyke Blue (Jacob Tremblay) and gruff stepdad Victor (Brendan Gleeson, “ The Raven“) in tow - whisks off to the City of Lights with nary a jump cut. Unfortunately, once she is missing, Papa Smurf (voice of the late Jonathan Winters, “The Smurfs,” but I’d rather remember him from “ It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,” among other better films) along with Grouchy (voice of George Lopez, “ Rio,” and a wealth of other voiceover work), Clumsy (voice of Anton Yelchin, “ Star Trek Into Darkness“) and Vanity (voice of John Oliver, “ The Love Guru“), locate Patrick and his family to help solve the mystery. Smoove, “ Hall Pass“), to kidnap Smurfette so he can extract her essence, or something like that. Meanwhile, Gargamel - who is now a big-time David Blaine-type illusionist in the world of humans - is hatching a plot wherein he uses his two gray Smurf-like minions, the tomboyish Vexy (voice of Christina Ricci, “ Black Snake Moan“) and the idiotic Hackus (voice of J.B. Happy, except for the group’s only female, Smurfette (voice of singer Katy Perry), who’s depressed because she thinks everyone forgot her birthday (get used to it, kid).
Here, as directed by Raja Gosnell (who has helmed such classics as “ Home Alone 3,” and “ Beverly Hills Chihuahua“), the Smurfs are happy and healthy back in their quaint village. It does live longer, though, dragging on for 105 minutes (two minutes longer than the first go round).
Like most sequels, The Smurfs 2 does not live up to the original, which in turn was never something worth living up to in the first place. With Neil Patrick Harris (“ A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas“) sleepwalking through his repeat role of Patrick Winslow and Hank Azaria (“ Lovelace“) as the evil wizard Gargamel playing it so far over the top he falls off the other side, adults are most likely to tag along with the tots only to forget this one by the time they get home. oh, why bother explaining the plot of this film’s predecessor, “ The Smurfs,” when it’s going to be difficult enough to write about this sequel’s ridiculous storyline? And, unless one is either under the age of four or in a drug-induced coma, they are not likely to care an iota about it anyway. When we last left our intrepid tiny blue friends, they had just.
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