Well, I love Neil Patrick Harris but I did not love this movie.  Now I have a super high threshold for what I’ll watch with my kids so this really bored me for me to say I didn’t like it.  I think my problem is I love Neil Patrick Harris too much in other roles.  I wanted him to be loud and have crazy gestures with his hands but he played a totally straight character and I didn’t like it.  I didn’t like boring, plain old  Patrick Winslow (Harris).  He even had a cool job creating ad campaigns for a high end make up/skin care line and even that was boring.

So what I’m saying here is not that Harris did a bad job, I just wanted him to be more like Barney from How I Met Your Mother or anything even close to that.  This is my problem not his.  If I didn’t go into it expecting Barney I might have liked it more.  Or even him at the Tony’s.  He’s so fun and energetic elsewhere I wanted him to be that so badly in the movie and the role just didn’t allow it I guess.

I also didn’t like the Smurfs very much.  They looked creepy to me.  Not cuddly and cute.  They had a weird texture to their skin that I didn’t like.

Now, I’m happy I took my kids to see this because they LOVED it.   They were cracking up all over the place.  This is definitely a kids movie with some kid potty humor and ridiculous comedy.

I say take your kids but this aint no Pixar for the whole family fun.  I love the going out to a movie experience and I love even more taking my kids out to movies so even though this wasn’t a great one for me it was totally worth it for my kids reaction to it.

Even as I’m sitting here I like it more because I realize I was the problem with the movie not the movie itself.  Smurfs are still creepy but the humans did a great job with what they were given.

Jayma Mays, Emma from Glee, is Harris’ wife in the movie.  Cute as ever.  Seriously, I just want to pick her up and put her on a shelf.  But that would be so boring for her.

I realize this is a mixed and confusing review but if you have the right expectations I think it might be cute.  And kids will love it.  And theres magic in it.  Gargamel has the most awesome wand at the end.

Smurfs is in theaters now.