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I don’t know if you live in the time where kids used to watch Smurfs (along with My Little Pony, or Rainbow Brite, Jem or Care Bears. yeah that’s what it’s like growing up with 3 sisters but I digress). Anyway, I already forgot what’s the deal with the Smurfs is but they’re getting a 3D treatment for an animated feature film for 2011.

Yep, after many decades, the Smurfs are coming to the big screen next year with a combination of live-action and computer animation. Check out how they will look like in the big screen.

Everybody’s favorite gay guy, Neil Patrick Harris will be a part of the movie but he won’t be a Smurf. He will instead play Johan who I had to Google up to find out that he’s just a page. Bah.

Grown-up Dakota Fanning, Jayma Mays of Glee, will also be a part of the movie as one of the live actors. She will play as one of the human friends of the Smurfs.

If you check out the IMDB page, notable voice actors for this movie are: Katy Perry who will be doing the voice for Smurfette, Jeff Foxworthy for Handy Smurf, and Wolfgang Puck for Chef Smurf.

Fortunately, they will be giving the story a modern touch unlike the medieval setting from the cartoon series. It will be like Enchanted where the Smurfs are magically transported to Central Park via a portal from their village.

Trivia, what’s the name of the villain in Smurf (shown below played by Hank Azaria):

A. Gorgonzola

B. Garbanzo

C. Gargamel

Personally, I didn’t become a fan of the Smurfs so I’m not sure if this is one of the movies that I need to watch but who knows? I found Enchanted funny and entertaining and besides who doesn’t want to watch NPH?

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