La flûte à six schtroumpfs (1976)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Directors:

Eddie Lateste
Peyo

Writers:

Yvan Delporte (writer)
Peyo (characters)

Release Date:

25 November 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music | Musical

Tagline:

It's the Smurfs' ONE and ONLY full length motion picture ...ever!

Plot:

A villain named McCreep steals the Smurfs' magic flute, an instrument that makes people dance wildly, and uses it to rob them. The Smurf King sends out Peewit to track down the thief and retrieve the flute.

Plot Keywords:

Magic | Dream | Based On Comic | Sequel | Kids And Family

Cast

Georges Atlas	...	Sénéchal (voice)
Jacques Balutin	...	Le buveur (voice)
Angelo Bardi	...	Le marchand (voice)
Jacques Ciron	...	Le visiteur (voice)
William Coryn	...	Johan (voice)
Henri Crémieux	...	Homnibus (voice)
Roger Crouzet	...	Schtroumpf #2 (voice)
Jacques Dynam	...	Mortaille (voice)
Michel Elias	...	Le grand Schtroumpf (voice)
Ginette Garcin	...	Dame Barde (voice)
Henri Labussière	...	Le pêcheur (voice)
Jacques Marin	...	Schtroumpf-Fête (voice)
Albert Médina	...	Torchesac (voice)
Michel Modo	...	Pirlouit (voice)
Georges Pradez	...	Le roi (voice)

Also Known As:

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (USA)

Runtime:

Belgium:74 min | USA:89 min | Argentina:90 min

Country:

France | Belgium

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor) | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Argentina:Atp | Canada:F (Ontario) | USA:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Company:

Belvision

Trivia:

In keeping with the original Smurf albums by Peyo, Brainy Smurf is repeatedly hit on the head with a hammer by the other Smurfs to shut him up. This was deemed to violent and too easy to copy by American censors, so in the later Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, he is always catapulted out of the village instead.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: Once upon a time... wait a minute! This isn't just another once upon a time story. This story doesn't follow the book at all. It all began in a kingdom a long time ago in the middle ages. By decree of the good king, the kingdom was having a great celebration.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Angel: Smile Time (#5.14)" (2004)

May be disorienting!

Many adults forget that children used to the animated series "the Smurfs" may be disoriented by "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute". I don't forget how confused I was when my parents brought this home from the video store. First off, none of the usual human characters in the animated series appear in the movie. (Missing is Gargamel, among others). The biggest difference is that the voices of the smurfs are completely different than they are in the show, and only a fraction of the personalities in the show are represented. The voices have an eery and, frankly, annoying sound effect on them, making them sound even more chirpy and otherworldy than they ever did on TV.

These inexplicable inconsistencies are coupled with some basic faults: The smurfs do not appear until 20 minutes into the film, long after your kids have left the room or turned on the X box. The story is hard to follow and uninteresting. The magic Flute amounts to nothing more than an oddity for "hardcore" smurf fans.