'The Smurfs" is about what you'd expect. It's a cynical attempt to capitalize off the notoriety of a piece of 1980s cartoon nostalgia. There was no muse whispering into anyone's ear about why this ...

As 3-D animated comedy 'The Smurfs' hits theatres this week, its cast reveals their fascination for the cute little creatures As 3-D animated comedy 'The Smurfs' hits theatres this week, its cast ...

The Smurfs debuted as a comic book created by the artist Peyo in Belgium in 1958. Yet the story of the tiny blue creatures didn’t became a Saturday morning cartoon hit from Hanna-Barbera until the ...

Cinema observers long have wondered if Hollywood has hit bottom — Where is the originality? — they ask from time to time. Consider just 2011: Several more comic book heroes have come to the big screen ...

Although the Smurfs were created as a concept in the 1950s, their totally Smurfin' cartoon was actually first aired in the 1980s. It was, of course, all sweetness and light - or so it seemed, until ...

The Smurfs may have been hidden deep in the forest, but Gerard Baldwin is not so hidden in the "livable forest" of Kingwood. The 82-year-old artist is a California transplant who worked as the ...