The Smurfs (1995 film)

The Smurfs is a 1995 traditionally-animated musical/comedy/adventure film based on the comic strip of the same name by Pierre "Peyo" Culliford. It is written by Peyo's son, Thierry Culliford, along with Thomas Hart and John Loy. The film is produced by Studio Peyo, in association with Walt Disney Feature Animation. The film was released to theatres on May 12, 1995.

Plot
Johan and Peewit, the brave knight and royal court jester of the kingdom, help Papa Smurf and the other Smurfs rescue Smurfette from the evil wizard, Gargamel and his pet cat, Azrael. Smurfette had a dream about where she came from and tells us the reasons of how Smurfette was created to cause choas before Papa Smurf found her inner beauty and made her a real Smurf with the use of magic.

Voice Cast

 * Jack Angel - Papa Smurf
 * Kristin Chenoweth - Smurfette
 * Danny Goldman - Brainy Smurf
 * George Lopez - Grouchy Smurf
 * Gary Basaraba - Hefty Smurf
 * Dan Castellaneta - Vanity Smurf
 * Paul Reubens - Jokey Smurf
 * Rob Paulsen - Clumsy Smurf, Painter Smurf
 * Jeff Foxworthy - Handy Smurf
 * Jeff Glen Bennett - Scaredy Smurf
 * Hank Azaria - Gargamel
 * Frank Welker - Azrael
 * Charlie Adler - Poet Smurf
 * Cam Clarke - Sir Johan
 * Billy West - Peewit
 * Colin Fox - The King

Additional Voices

 * Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.
 * Janice Karman
 * Michael Bell
 * Frank Welker
 * Tress MacNeille
 * June Foray
 * Phil Vischer
 * Mike Nawrocki
 * Ken Samson
 * Jim Cummings
 * Charlie Adler
 * Dan Castellaneta
 * Kath Soucie
 * Jess Harnell
 * Rob Paulsen

Soundtrack
A CD soundtrack for the film was released on March 7, 1995.

Trivia

 * Unlike the Hanna-Barbera cartoon and like the original comics, Brainy gets bonked in the head for talking too much instead of being thrown out of the Smurf Village.
 * And like the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Papa Smurf used magic to make Smurfette pretty instead of plastic "smurfery" like in the comics.
 * Grouchy has an extensive use of dialogue in the film, which is marked the first time he says anything else besides saying that he hates every single thing that comes his way.