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[[caption-width-right:296:[[OverlyLongGag The smurfing film you've smurfed your smurfing smurf for.]]]]

A LiveActionAdaptation of the Belgian comicbook ''TheSmurfs'', released on July 29, 2011. The story focuses on six of the Smurfs (Papa, Smurfette, Brainy, Gutsy, Clumsy and Grouchy) who get transported via a magical portal to modern day New York City after the evil wizard Gargamel manages to finally locate their village. Once there, they run into a young couple, Patrick and Grace Winslow (Creator/NeilPatrickHarris and Creator/JaymaMays), who act as their SecretKeeper until they can figure out a way to return to their own world. Unfortunately, Gargamel and his cat Azrael have also managed to find their way through the portal, and his scheme of using the Smurfs' essence to make his magic dangerously powerful may come to fruition unless they can Smurf him back.

The film is notable not only for being a HumanFocusedAdaptation (though to a much lesser extent than you'd think from watching the previews), but also for containing some of the most brazen uses of ProductPlacement to date. It's intended to be the first in a trilogy of movies, with sequels scheduled for release in [[Film/TheSmurfs2 2013]] and 2015.

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'''NOTE''': All tropes related to ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'' belong here.
!!This film contains examples of:

* ActionGirl: Smurfette is mostly TheChick as usual, but gets an impressive solo action scene against Azrael.
* ActorAllusion: In one scene, Smurfette says [[KatyPerry "I kissed a Smurf and I... liked it!"]].
* {{Aesop}}: Whole scads of them, delivered deadpan and with extra application of [[{{Anvilicious}} anvils]].
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version uses Hey! Say! JUMP's [[http://www.jukebo.com/hey-say-jump/music-clip,magic-power,qzxv5p.html "Magic Power"]] as its theme song.
* ArtShift: ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'' switches from 3D CGI to 2D animation [[spoiler:during the sequence when Grouchy is visited by the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.]]
* AscendedMeme: There was a well-known commercial image of the Smurf village being devastated by war. What's the first thing Gargamel does when he follows Clumsy and finds it for himself?
* BadassGrandpa: Papa Smurf.
* BadToTheBone: AC/DC's "Back In Black" plays when Patrick Winslow and the Smurfs pay a visit to Belvedere Castle to free Papa Smurf from Gargamel.
* TheBechdelTest: Passes easily with the conversations between Smurfette and Grace.
* BeYourself: Parodied, as the Smurfs are named after their salient trait, meaning that telling Clumsy to Be Himself has a tendency to backfire. That said, he does find his heroism by the end.
* BigApplesauce: In all its [[ProductPlacement media-saturated]] glory. The end credits even show the Smurfs bringing it back with them (though to be honest, the fact that [[spoiler:Gargamel found their village and leveled it would make rebuilding necessary.]])
* BigDamnHeroes: Invoked when all the Smurfs show up to fight Gargamel and rescue Papa -- though he turns out, in the end, to be more than a match for them with his super-powered wand. [[spoiler: Luckily, Gutsy and Clumsy manage to get the wand from him.]]
* BraveScot: Gutsy's character is basically this.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Gargamel does this at the end of the movie.]]
* BrokenAesop: Apparently Smurfette's independence as a person means no longer settling for [[LimitedWardrobe a single outfit]] and wholeheartedly embracing consumerism.
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The Smurfs are rehearsing one at the beginning, and Brainy colliding into the first row even leads to the infamous domino-pool-dive effect.
* ButtMonkey: Gargamel and Azrael both get a lot of comedic, basically-harmless injuries.
* CardboardPrison: It's hard to blame the folks at Riker's for this one, as they didn't anticipate that Gargamel could just... [[IncrediblyLamePun fly out]].
* TheCameo: Joan Rivers and gossip columnist Liz Smith at Odile's promotional party. Also Tim Gunn from ProjectRunway.
* CatsAreMean: Azrael
* CatsAreSnarkers: Azrael snarks in meows.
* TheCavalry: Brought by [[spoiler:Brainy]] after opening the portal back to Smurfland.
* CelebrityParadox: Zig-zagged. Patrick has never heard of the Smurfs when he meets them, but a little research shows that Peyo ''did'' exist, although in this universe he claims Smurfs were mythical creatures rather than his own inventions. They even find a book of Peyo comics, which turns out to be important to the plot.
* ChekhovsGun: The leaf blower.
* ChristmasSpecial / YetAnotherChristmasCarol: ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'', which is included in the three-disc Blu-Ray bundle.
* ClusterFBomb: Parodied.
--> '''Patrick:''' Smurf! Smurfity smurf smurf smurf!
--> ''(the Smurfs gasp)''
--> '''Gutsy:''' There's no need for that language!
* CommanderContrarian: Zig-zagged with Grouchy.
* CompanionCube: The green M&M plushie becomes this for Grouchy.
* TheDanza: Variation. Creator/NeilPatrickHarris plays ''Patrick'' Winslow.
* DontThinkFeel: Played with -- Patrick's boss Odile demands that he give her "what I want, not what I ask for". This dilemma drives him to distraction until [[OnceInABlueMoon he gets an inspiration]] for his ad campaign from the Smurfs... and then gives it up for the safe bet, only to have [[spoiler:Clumsy send the "wrong" ad by mistake -- which turns out to be a smashing success, but only after Brainy turns the moon blue with the portal opening spell]].
* EvilIsHammy: Gargamel.
* EvilLaugh: Yeah, but don't milk it...
* EvilSorcerer: Gargamel
* ExecutiveMeddling: This brought Gutsy Smurf into the film, apparently because Hefty Smurf wasn't sufficiently macho (or Scottish) to be TheBigGuy.
* FiveManBand, with each role conveniently {{Lampshaded}} by their names.
** TheHero: Clumsy, in a case of deliberate and {{Lampshaded}} irony.
** TheLancer: Grouchy
** TheBigGuy: Gutsy
** TheSmartGuy: Brainy
** TheChick: Smurfette, {{Subverted}} by her solo action scene.
** TeamDad: Papa Smurf
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The pastoral, communal Smurfs are dumped in 2010 New York City, and HilarityEnsues, especially after Gargamel joins the fray.
* FountainOfYouth: What Smurf essence is when it was used on Odile's mother, which makes Odile want to get her hands on it.
* FourFingeredHands: The Smurfs, which results in Grace giving a high-five and Smurfette returning with a high-four. Gargamel has also four-fingered hands in ''A Christmas Carol''.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Voiced as "goodbye, blue world" by Brainy when Gutsy kicks him off the window sill of the Winslows' apartment.
* GRatedDrug: Grouchy has a scene in which he overindulges in M&M's (blue, of course), leading to InVinoVeritas.
* GreenThumb: Or blue, rather. Clumsy and the others turn a simple window planter into a blooming flower garden literally overnight.
* TheGrinch: Grouchy Smurf in ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'' starts off as this because all he wanted was a hang glider for a Christmas present and all he ever got was a Smurf hat.
* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The Smurfs take refuge with a husband and wife in New York after being teleported there, and must help them resolve their problems in order to get back home.
** Note, however, that the humans (excluding Gargamel) don't turn up until quite some time into the film, and the focus is arguably more on the CharacterDevelopment of the ''Smurfs'' than the humans, making this almost an inversion.
* HotbloodedSideburns: Gutsy of all the young Smurfs his age wears these.
* IAteWhat: Grouchy ends up eating the blue M&Ms that he thinks are "[[RoadApples Smurf droppings]]".
** Earlier on, Clumsy mistakes liquid soap for something edible and tries it out, only to not like the taste of it before he burps out a bubble.
* ImprobableWeaponUser and AbnormalAmmo: The Smurfs make use of golf balls, bowling balls, [[RazorApples needle-laden fruit]] and lipstick when forced to fight.
* ImprovisedParachute: The Smurfs use their own hats as parachutes.
* IncessantMusicMadness: Patrick Winslow is driven crazy by the Smurfs constantly singing their theme tune.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Gargamel, mostly. Until he gets his hands on Smurf Essence, that is.
* InsistentTerminology: It's not a ''hole'', it's a ''vortex''. Or possibly a portal.
* InteractiveNarrator: Narrator Smurf is a character, and this is his job. Mixes with SorryILeftTheBGMOn when the opening narration turns out to be done by him in the scene, as part of the rehearsal for the Blue Moon Festival.
* InVinoVeritas: Grouchy's "candid" conversation with a green M&M plushie in a toy store.
* InvisibilityCloak: Smurf Village has a magic barrier that renders the entire place invisible to anyone outside it.
* IronicEcho: "Are you dead?"
* {{Irony}}: Both parents of Music/KatyPerry, the [[CelebrityVoiceActor voice]] of Smurfette, were highly conservative pastors that didn’t allow their children to watch [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs the 1980s animated series]], considering it to not be good for her and her siblings.
* JerkassFacade: Grouchy admits (to a plushie) that he only puts on a gruff exterior because he's afraid of getting hurt.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his gruff exterior, Grouchy apparently just wants to be loved too -- see InVinoVeritas above.
* LetsGetDangerous: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris has a crowbar. Your argument is invalid.
* LittleGirlsKickShins: A little girl in FAO Schwarz kicks Patrick Winslow when she sees him take her "toy" away.
* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Patrick Winslow introduces the time-traveling Smurfs to a little something called GuitarHero. They even bring the music style back to their own time and Brainy forms his own band called the Brainiacs.
* MageInManhattan: Gargamel.
* ManInAKilt: Gutsy. For laughs, he is clearly wearing Smurf pants underneath, but the other Smurfs react as if he is "nae trews". He concludes the film with some I <3 NY underpants.
* MarilynManeuver: Executed by Smurfette, to the apparent admiration of the other Smurfs -- except Gutsy, who proceeds to do the same with a kilt, to considerably less admiration.
* MeaningfulEcho: Living in a larger home means you can be further apart...
* MeaningfulName: All the Smurfs' names are this by definition. {{Lampshaded}} when the humans ask about it.
-->'''Patrick:''' And you're all named after your personalities? Do you get your names when you're born or after you've exhibited certain traits?
--> '''The Smurfs:''' [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]]
* MeaningfulRename: Papa Smurf refers to Patrick as 'Papa' at the end, to show that he believes Patrick will be just as good a dad as he is.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: "Oooooh... {{Google}}..."
* MythologyGag: Quite a few.
** Gargamel finds, to his surprise, that Azrael is a male. This references the fact that in the former comics, Azrael was a female cat until the TV series made Azrael a male [[RetCanon and later comics followed suit]].
** There's also the part when Gargamel refers to the Smurf Village as "The Cursed Land", its original name, as a derogatory.
** Late in the movie, [[EarNotch Azrael's ear is damaged]], making him look a little more like his comic counterpart.
* NiceHat: The Phrygian cap style hats of the Smurfs serve as parachutes that slow their descent as they drop from the Winslows' apartment window to a nearby taxicab. In ''The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol'', Grouchy finds out that his new Smurf hat can also be used as a glider.
* NobodyPoops: Grouchy mistakes a candy dish of blue M&Ms in a toy store for "Smurf droppings". [[GRatedDrug Then eats them.]]
** Gargamel urinates in a champagne bottle cooler at a restaurant in the middle of the movie, which he mistakes for a chamber pot.
* NoExceptYes: Gargamel isn't obsessed with the Smurfs, he just "can't stop thinking about them".
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: After [[spoiler:Papa Smurf]] gets captured, the rest of the party goes back to rescue him, against his orders.
* OffhandBackHand: Watch out for Clumsy's hands when he gets excited.
* OnceInABlueMoon: The Blue Moon Festival takes place at every blue moon, which is when Papa Smurf is able to see into the future to tell what it may hold for his little Smurfs. It also causes a portal within a waterfall to open that transports whoever enters it through time and space. The image becomes an inspiration for Patrick Winslow's latest ad campaign.
* PapaWolf: Papa Smurf is the most obvious example, but Patrick has his moments as well.
* ParentalBonus:
** [[KatyPerry "I kissed a Smurf and I liked it?"]]
** It's unlikely that young children will get the joke of Smurfette mistaking a rack of doll heads for actual heads displayed on spikes (probably a valid punishment in whatever time period Peyo's books are meant to be set in).
* ParentheticalSwearing: "Smurf" is often used in place of... other words.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Gargamel's magic is empowered by "Smurf essence", which he extracts from them in the form of hair clippings, sweat, tears, and the like.
* ProductPlacement: So blatant and constant that it approaches a sublime art form all by itself.
** [[http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2011/07/the_smurfs_review.html Inverted as well, when competing products are involved]].
--->'''Flick Filospher:''' The cleverness of The Smurfs never ceases to astonish! Gosnell plays with product placement, launching an extended sequence set in the famous toy store FAO Schwarz with a chase set in the plaza outside... while at the same time completely avoiding getting even the tiniest sliver of a shot of the dramatic glass-cube Apple store situated in that very plaza. (By spectacular contrast, Sony computers litter the film.)
* PropheticFallacy: Clumsy interrupts Papa Smurf's attempt to foresee the outcome of the Blue Moon Festival, so he misses a crucial part of the prophecy and spends most of the film trying to keep Clumsy out of trouble, which naturally triggers the plot.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Grouchy in ''A Christmas Carol'': "I! HATE! HATS!" And before that..."I! HATE! CHRISTMAS!"
* RecursiveCanon: The original "Smurfs" comic book in our world proves to be Peyo's in-universe document of their existence, and the Smurfs try to find it because it contains the spell that can return them to their world.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Papa Smurf -- five hundred and forty-six, to be precise.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Gutsy.
* RichBitch: Patrick's boss.
* RingRingCrunch: Grouchy in ''A Christmas Carol'' gives his alarm clock a single fist pound to shut it off.
* RightHandCat: Azrael, obviously.
* SecretKeeper: Patrick and Grace Winslow have to hide the presence of the Smurfs in New York because, well, who would believe them?
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Subverted without apparent irony -- yes, Smurfette is the only female Smurf, but the ''human'' cast has both a [[WomenAreWiser down-to-earth female]] and a domineering lady boss. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as well; Gargamel created Smurfette in order to entrap the all-male Smurfs, but she did a HeelFaceTurn and joined them.
* {{Smurfing}}: Variously played straight, parodied and lampshaded.
-->'''Patrick:''' ...and you like to use the extremely imprecise term 'smurf' for just about everything.
* SoProudOfYou: Papa Smurf shows this to [[spoiler:Clumsy]] near the end of the movie.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Azrael is a NearlyNormalAnimal, but he borders on SpeechImpairedAnimal in the scene when he tries to say, "Are you dead?"
* SummonMagic: Parodied. Gargamel tries for eagles and instead gets a swarm of flies. But hey, as long as he got something...
* TimePortal: How the Smurfs get from the medieval forest to modern-day New York City.
* TotallyRadical: Papa Smurf wearing Wayfarer sunglasses on the poster? Check. Smurfette turned into a shopaholic ditz right out of ''SexAndTheCity''? Check. Smurfs ''rapping''? Kill us.
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: A Smurf in ''A Christmas Carol'' tries to lick an icicle and gets his tongue stuck on it. He is seen dancing with the other Smurfs with the icicle still stuck on his tongue.
* UnexplainedAccent: Why does Gutsy speak in a Scottish accent? Probably same reason why Vanity speaks in a refined upper-class English accent in this movie.
** Clumsy, on the other hand subverts the trope, at least compared to the cartoon; in the cartoon he spoke in a Southern accent, but in this movie he doesn't.
* VagueAge: Other than Papa, none of the Smurfs are given explicit ages, and their varied behavior lends itself to a whole range of interpretations.
* WaitHere: The rest of the Smurfs to Clumsy, twice. The second time, he actually ''does'' stay behind, which allows him to initiate the [[spoiler:NoOneGetsLeftBehind, as Papa had made them all promise not to go back for him -- but Clumsy, who wasn't there at the time, never promised anything.]]
* WeaponsThatSuck: Gargamel uses a leaf blower for capturing Smurfs when he chases after them in FAO Schwarz.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Smurfs can apparently live to almost 600 and still be sprightly and active.
* WelcomeToTheRealWorld: Well, the modern world thinks they're fictional, thanks to RecursiveCanon at work where Peyo portrays them more as a historical legend than his own cartoon creation.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At one point Odile makes a deal with Gargamel to help him in exchange for his FountainOfYouth potion, but nothing comes of this.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Brainy gets this sort of lecture from Papa when it falls to him to decipher the portal spell.
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Papa Smurf]], to save the other Smurfs from Gargamel, leading to NoOneGetsLeftBehind.

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