The Smurfs

[Space Pirate Roberts]

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This could be cool, but I'm really afraid it'll go the usual Dreamworks 'recognizable celebrity voices and constant pop culture references' route.

[bbobb]

It won't be french enough.

[Melf]

I hope they don't include the kids that showed up later on. A town with one female produced kids and no one asked any questions.

[Mr-K]

It's because the answer is obvious.

[Melf]

800 pound gorilla in the village!

[Brand X]

That's going to look amazing when it's textured and lit. I can't wait.

[Dolemite]

They'll all act like wiggers.

[Cheebs]

They better keep those amazing personality disorders.

[Seik]

They'll all act like wiggers.

Yeah. Or wanksters. Dreamworks' two favorite character types.

[Advocate]

fucking hell.

Whether you like it or not, the CG Smurfs movie is happening and the guys at UGO.com have snagged a peek at how things are shaping up. Though the film is currently in pre-production, an insider was able to snag a shot of a rendering of one the new Smurfs, and the result is tantamount to a tabloid look at a cheerful Sasquatch.
(You'll have to click the image below to see the CG-rendered Smurf in full at the source.)

Suffice it to say, the Smurfs continue to be the weird-looking, small, blue dudes we know and love -- as opposed to James Cameron's weird-looking, big, blue dudes -- but their transition from 2-D to pudgy 3-D is slightly unnerving.

Directed by Raja Gosnell (Beverly Hills Chihuahua), the Smurfs movie is set in New York City -- Central Park, to be exact, which increases my skepticism regarding this movie about sevenfold -- and will be combined with live action.