The Smurfs

@Foxwolf I know that they knew Katy Perry would be good for the part when they heard her voice. I HIGHLY doubt they didn't know it was Katy Perry. Since they hired a bunch of other voiceover novice celebrities, it only makes sense that they would do it for all the major Smurf characters. I doubt they even auditioned anyone or cast anyone based their VOICE and their VOICE alone. The voices are some of the many reasons this film totally failed to capture any of the spirit or magic of the original series.

@PurpleWarrior13

Have you seen the movie man? Can you honestly say she did a terrible job with the role?? I understand your point but you have to realize they need to market and sell these movies and bringing in celebs unfortunately is one way to do this.

@OptimusSolo She was... okay. She kinda just played herself. Don't get me wrong, I think KP is a great singer, but she's not very good at voice acting. I don't believe that they really need to cast celebrities since I know a lot of people who don't even know the people who do the voices in these movies anyway. Even so, they could make names for the TRUE voice actors who can actually do their job. Frank Welker has become well known in recent years because of his fantastic voice work as Curious George (his name is even mixed with the celebrities on the front cover of CG 2), and Grey DeLisle was going to have a lead role in Tangled at one point. There have been many successful animated movies with no celebrity voices. It's not fair that they cast actors in these movies based on their name alone. I want to hear Smurfette... not Katy Perry... I'm not the only one who thinks this (Billy West has been protesting the use of non-professional celebrity voices for years).

The only celebrities who make decent voice actors are Robin Williams, Mike Myers, Betty White, George Lopez, Eddie Murphy, Tim Allen, Catherine Zeta Jones, Kimberly J Brown, Kelsey Grammar, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, and maybe a couple more.

And yes, I have seen this movie... it was decent, but I think it would've been more neat and original if it was set entirely in Smurfland (with the Smurfs having their own adventures) instead of being ANOTHER movie where animated characters struggle to deal with the real world (it's already been done to death with Looney Tunes Back in Action, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fat Albert, and I guess Alvin and the Chipmunks counts too).

@Ninjaman15

Yea I think you should. Have you even seen the movie?

@OptimusSolo Not really, but from watching clips and hearing audience reactions, it's just typical cookie-cutter "CGI meets real life" Hollywood stuff. I believe the only actually great sense of CG animation is usually what's been done in Japan... for instance, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Besides, I'm a critic. Just telling me to relax is like forcing George Lucas to kill off Jar-Jar Binks. As much as most Star Wars fans hate the character, there are few who like him.

And...... I assume you got nothing out of this?

@Ninjaman15

Sorry man, no offense but its pretty hard to follow your grammar most of the time