If any of this makes sense, please seek counseling now.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 23, 2020

While the first film attempted to have a wider appeal, the sequel casts a smaller net... It simply feels as if filmmakers took a step backwards with this picture.

| Mar 1, 2019

It's fairly run-of-the-mill in kid's film standards, and the screenwriters' lack of willingness to include anything even remotely edgy makes it difficult for adults to engage with it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2018

This was something that you could have done something cool with. In there, somewhere, there's a good Smurf movie. But for some reason, the director, the writers..they're just not doing it.

| Mar 5, 2018

Smurfs 2 just isn't an enjoyable time.

| Original Score: D | Jun 29, 2016

Smurfs 2 isn't quite so good at appealing to adults, but it's harmless fun for the littlies.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 7, 2016

The pacing is fine but the dialogue is trite. Older children and adults will also find the main plot and Smurf gibberish tedious, redeemed only by Azaria's performance and a sideplot involving Gargamel.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 30, 2016

The Smurfs 2 panders to children, offering nothing more than a series of fart jokes and pratfalls, for the obvious purpose of cashing in on an already established fan base.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 23, 2015

Yay! The Smurfs are back - bigger, bolder and bluer than ever. It's fun fun fun, a more-than-worthy, hyper-energetic sequel to the fabulous first film...It's all wonderful fantasy nonsense, delivered fast and with plenty of self-consciously cheap laughs.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2013

IT'S a rarity, but it's nice when a sequel learns from the mistakes of its predecessor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2013

While the 2011 Smurfs movie set in New York was filled with blue-tinged charm and cute-dom, the follow-up in Paris lacks the sweet innocence from the last time around, resulting in a yarn that is overblown and a bit of a yawn

| Sep 10, 2013

The early-elementary-school-age kids in the auditorium will certainly shut up for ninety minutes, but just about anyone outside of that demographic will find attention wandering.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2013

This follow-up is driven solely by financial motives, and available in 3D, of course.

| Aug 30, 2013

Smurftastically stupid. Here's a sequel to a movie we didn't care about the first time around. It's enough to make you blue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2013

I took my inner-5-year-old to see The Smurfs 2 and what happened? The little weasel sneaked out of the theater and went to watch something else.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Aug 14, 2013

In this obnoxiously peppy 3D sequel, "smurf" is an all-purpose prefix that the anaemic script uses when words fail. Which is often.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2013

'Smurfs 2' joins many other live action/animation mixes as an average outing for the smaller fry.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2013

Everything that was right with the first one is wrong with the second one.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 8, 2013

At this week's preview screening, a young girl who apparently was experiencing her first 3D movie complained: 'It's in my face!' Child, I feel your pain.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2013

Yes, this is the point in the summer when I outsource my critical judgment to my kids.

| Aug 7, 2013