“As both a character actor and a vocally-oriented character actor, it was fun to turn into somebody else — literally. It was challenging in that it almost turned into a mask, so I had to work it like ...

LOS ANGELES – A recent sneak peek into the making of The Smurfs broadened our horizons with regards to those little blue dudes (and one dudette). Yes, the Smurfs in the new live-action-plus-CGI movie ...

I could say this until I’m blue in the face and you still wouldn’t believe me: “The Smurfs” isn’t half-bad. I came into the punny family film as a complete Smurfgin; I had never once seen the TV show ...

Our turf is about to get Smurf'd! I was considering writing this entire Smurfin' post using "Smurf" in place of as many words as I could but realized you guys would get really Smurfin' tired of that ...

The good news is that there is no news in the land of Smurfdom. The cartoon creatures are still blue, three apples tall, cheerful as all get-out, and annoying as hell. Each is named after after his ...

Don’t underestimate the power of little blue creatures. Director Raja Gosnell’s “The Smurfs” took the top spot on Friday, beating out “Cowboys & Aliens” on the same day both movies hit theaters ...

“The Smurfs” may seem like an easy assignment for its visual effects team compared with, say, “Transformers 3.” The little critters themselves are very cartoony, and appear to lack the complexity of ...

The Smurfs debuted as a comic book created by the artist Peyo in Belgium in 1958. Yet the story of the tiny blue creatures didn’t became a Saturday morning cartoon hit from Hanna-Barbera until the ...