A Smurfs movie? Well, that's just ... nifty.

I'll admit it -- I don't really remember much about The Smurfs. Yes, I'm an 80s kid, and lived for Saturday morning cartoons, big bowls of mixed breakfast cereals and couch-cushion forts -- but I'm at a loss to tell you anything I remember about The Smurfs cartoon show. They were tiny and blue, and there was only one chick in the whole village. That's all I got.

So now that Variety is reporting that a live action/animated feature film based on the popular little bastards is in the works from Columbia, well ... let's just say I'm having trouble stifling a yawn. Yes, I know it was a popular show, and that millions of adults who were indoctrinated with its pro-Marxist agenda as impressionable youths still remember it fondly, but I'm not getting very smurfed up over it.

However, I do think Paul Giamatti would make a kick-ass Gargamel.

Meanwhile, here's the theme song. Maybe someone can explain it to me.



-- Adam Reinhard, areinhard@greenbaypressgazette.com