Smurfs is far from a disaster, but it’s still a pity to see mainstream children’s films made in a way that clearly looks down on their audience. In this not-quite-but-sort-of remake, the Smurfs live humbly in their village, enjoying their many and varied abilities and personalities. When the evil wizard Razamel (brother to Gargamel, the Smurfs’ nemesis) kidnaps Papa Smurf, No Name and the other Smurfs will have to venture into the human world on an epic quest to find him. The filmmaking itself looks deeply weird, with the photorealistic animation of the ‘real world’ buffering up harshly against the rounded, highly expressive nature of the Smurfs themselves. Action will take place in a bland void of flat animation, before the Smurfs move quickly through superfluous photorealism to get to the next area where it feels safely devoid of features to let things happen again.