The Smurfs: Season One, Volume One (review)
Truly as impossible to watch now as it was back when we were all undiscriminating children.
Truly as impossible to watch now as it was back when we were all undiscriminating children.
Here’s yet another incarnation of the classic mystery-comedy cartoon series, and an entirely superfluous one.
It’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ meets ‘Hot Fuzz,’ which works better than it should but not enough to be genuinely interesting.
If you’re a newbie — say, you’ve been hearing about this BBC/BBC America show and have been meaning to check it out — here’s the spoiler-free, nothing-ruined-for-you-till-you-watch-it-yourself lowdown on the series.
It’s clear this simplistic Cartoon Network series is aimed at very young children…
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
Asks the daring question: Is hillbilly humor funnier when it’s tentacle-waving squids being crass and stupid?
Monotonous, repetitious… highlights the ordinary in the most banal way possible…
Her schtick seems deliberately calculated to induce paroxysms of nerdy joy in a specifically juvenile segment of the male audience…
The sprawling cast is all-Americana; the sprawling themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms…