(Pestering) Hollywood part 5, Laaa LAAA La La La Laaaa
Writing by alphabete on Thursday, 29 of October , 2009 at 1552
This is part 5 of my series “Six Days of (Pestering) Hollywood”, wherein I am reviewing “Hi Hollywood” which is a free ebook by Sean Bonner and Allen Morgenstern, whom I would link to if I knew where he resides on the inter-nets and was sure I had the right guy who has a Twitter page. Today’s review covers “Smurfs: The Real Story”.
Smurfs: The Real Story
If you grew up in my generation you knew the Smurfs. Knew them. You had a favorite, you had one you couldn’t stand, and you perhaps thought that little girl Smurf was pretty annoying what with her “Pappy Smurf Pappy Smurf” and wished Smurfette would show her how to be classy. Well, Smurf-classy. Let me revise my original statement: If you grew up in my generation you thought you knew the Smurfs. This mockumentary will blow the lid off the story of the community we all, in our impressionable childhoods, thought was true blue.
Interviewees
Gargamel
Papa Smurf
Smurfette
Subject Matter
As this is not a “movie” per se, it doesn’t have what one might term a plot. It’s a series of interviews with various Smurfs who were featured prominently on the show. Each interview shows the passage of time and fame and their effects on the persons interviewed, sometimes with saddening results.
Best Dialogue
SMURFETTE: [sounding like a chain-smoking drunken hick] Smurf you, smurfhole! Nah, C’mere smurfy, and let mama smurf you a real smurfin!
INTERVIEWER: [aroused] Oh? Um…can we turn off this tape?
Crowning Moment
Oh, that’d be the ending. 100%.
Final Analysis
It’s been said many times that the internet is a destroyer of childhood memories, beating them up and stealing their lunch money. It’s not hard to believe that without the internet nobody would be thinking of the Smurfs right now except possibly the Boomerang channel. Reading this treatment made me realize that childhood is a pure time, and should remain innocent, untainted, and untouched. I once aspired to be Smurfette, or just like her. No more. At the same time the venerable old Papa Smurf isn’t the Smurf I once thought him to be, and, well, there aren’t enough words to describe how pitiable Gargamel really is.
This one could go either way with awards. I think the one it won’t win is the Kids’ Choice Award though if done well and with the right cast it could easily rank high up on at least the Golden Globes nominations list.
I give this treatment five momspiders, for telling it like it is even though my memories of days gone by have been irrevocably changed by reading it.
This is why I don't wear white pumps
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