Some thought about the CGI Smurfs' series

By be for a while in project, The CGI Smurfs series have debuted worldwide by Fall 2021. Receptions were a mixed bag nonthenless, even for a franchise that never getting any reboot on TV series after the classic and beloved Hanna-Barbera series ended its extraordinary 9-seasons run... in 1989. But it deemed necessary to revisit these blue gnomes creatures for a new generation of kids, which was the original plan of Peyo's daughter Veronique Culliford who was the executive producer of this newer iteration.

For have seen fewer episodes of these two years ago, the results are a combination of anything. The new cartoon series (Yeah! Europe productions are more "cartoony" than what North America does today, but not so in the right way.) tried to convinced the fans of the old '80s series by add Big Mouth or the Savage Smurf, the ones from the Post-Peyo stories and the transitions done for those godawful Sony live-action/CGI movies: An impossible task. The new CGI show is more schizophrenic than genuinely enjoyable or funny. The one highlight though to save it of utter failure is the show still respect what made the original Peyo stories and universe so lovely at first place.

It is also the very first antagonists characters to get its own spin-off (Thought a debate may be put in caution that Yogi Bear is the first real one to get its own show after a successful run in another program at second cast) after a brief, but exemplary appearence in a Johan & Pewitt adventure, and thought the origins of all this is a little conniving, Dupuis' wanted more about these things and by Peyo's chagrin, he was likely obligated to abandonned slowly his human-duo characters for make the Smurfs onto series. It results to a long-running franchise that sells more than he would ever envisionned. Peyo was a storyteller. Not a moneymaker.

But few seems to be enthusiastic with each revisions of the property, and the CGI show is no exception. Thought the characters are now more on-model and less uglier than these horrific live-action things, the humor is somehow wicked and at times conniving. And some characters been modified for the sake of modify like the Smurfette became now a Kung-Fu master. The inclusion of more girls Smurfs in the other spectrum is a little too fanfiction comes to life. Do you think the real Peyo would have envisionned this for have hated the creation of Smurfette for too long?

Which was the point of why the Hanna-Barbera series was made, to add more appearences of Smurfette, even by Peyo's disbelief to the female character. He seems to hated the actual animated results of the earlier seasons, but like was says on a interview, it was the most closest representation to made it full-animation, by a so-'80s tight budget. The original Peyo series was very radical compared to the farmed American-version of the characters, but the latter succeeded to growth better pefrormances when the ones from Peyo became on Auto-Pilot.

But looking of the CGI cartoons series, this is mostly the hysteria of some adult "fans" that forced me to quit with this series. The problem of all this is reason why it's very tough to trust them at first glance with their weird theories and such. The term "Mentally retarded" can perfectly describe this show unfortunately, by finally given nothing to any generation who have read, watch or listening (Yeah! Even this crappy Smurfs Party CDs thing!) these in any lifetime. The Peyo's biggest property having to wait thirty-two long years before to made a big comeback to an animated series with actual new animation, but things like this would be much better if more creative control was in mind, or for that extent, less wicked humor for that matter, which is a problem for these kinds of cartoons on Europe since the old Space Goofs/Xilam days.