Series · Prime Video · 2021
The Smurfs
A village that shares a roof. Bland, harmless, and thin.
The old idea is a commune of trades — one cooks, one paints, one is grouchy — and a hungry man outside who would bottle them. Children like the color and the rescue. There is not much else. Papa Smurf solves it. Compared with Frog and Toad or Arthur, it does not leave a child with a sentence.
Acceptable filler for the very young. Do not let it crowd out a story that asks something of them.
The eight
Industry
4/10
Each Smurf has a job. The jobs are a gag more than a craft.
Household
5/10
No parents. A village that raises itself, which is the fantasy and the lack.
Piety
2/10
Papa Smurf is authority by height. Little else.
Courage
5/10
They rescue one another from Gargamel, on a loop.
Republic
6/10
The village is the point: nobody is the hero for long, except by turn.
Temperance
5/10
Mild. The villain is incompetent on purpose.
Truth
4/10
Simple and repeated.
Stewardship
5/10
A common life, with nothing particular to hand on but the village.
Live historicallyGive everyone at the table one real job for the meal, and name the jobs.
