Series · Prime Video · 2021
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The Smurfs
45Watch it awake.
A village that shares a roof. Bland, harmless, and thin.
The review
The old idea is a commune of trades — one cooks, one paints, one is grouchy — and a hungry man outside who would bottle them. Children like the color and the rescue. There is not much else. Papa Smurf solves it. Compared with Frog and Toad or Arthur, it does not leave a child with a sentence.
Acceptable filler for the very young. Do not let it crowd out a story that asks something of them.
Journal
Keep The Smurfs in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Truth are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Gabby's Dollhouse
60 instead of 45
Gabby's Dollhouse is still a children show, and it scores 60 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A child, a house, and friends who help.
The eight
- 4Industry
Each Smurf has a job. The jobs are a gag more than a craft.
- 5Household
No parents. A village that raises itself, which is the fantasy and the lack.
- 2Piety
Papa Smurf is authority by height. Little else.
- 5Courage
They rescue one another from Gargamel, on a loop.
- 6Republic
The village is the point: nobody is the hero for long, except by turn.
- 5Temperance
Mild. The villain is incompetent on purpose.
- 4Truth
Simple and repeated.
- 5Stewardship
A common life, with nothing particular to hand on but the village.
Where to watch
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