gary houston played the bad guy in smurfs 2.
who plays the bad guy in smurfs 2?
gary houston
sony pictures has announced plans to begin a trilogy of live-action/computer-animated smurf films, with the first film released on july 29, 2011. the project had been in various stages of development since 2003. in june 2008, it was announced that columbia pictures and sony pictures animation had acquired film rights from lafig belgium. jordan kerner produced the film, with the screenwriters including "shrek 2" and "shrek the third" screenwriters j. david stem and david n. weiss. the film stars jonathan winters as papa smurf, katy perry as smurfette, george lopez as grouchy smurf, gary basaraba as hefty smurf, john oliver as vanity smurf, alan cumming as gutsy smurf, paul reubens as jokey smurf, hank azaria as gargamel, neil patrick harris as patrick winslow and jayma mays as grace winslow, a couple in new york who help the smurfs get back to their village. it was suggested that quentin tarantino would play brainy smurf, but this "didn't work out" so fred armisen voices brainy instead. a cgi/traditionally animated mini-film, titled "", was released on december 2, 2011, on "the smurfs" dvd and blu-ray. a sequel to "the smurfs", titled "the smurfs 2", was released on july 31, 2013. a fully animated "smurfs" reboot film, "", was released in april 7, 2017, with demi lovato starring as smurfette.
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justin lowe of "the hollywood reporter" gave the film a negative review, saying "beyond a few chuckle-worthy one-liners and some amusing visual comedy, there's not much to engage adults, although the wee ones should be distracted enough." matt patches of "time out new york" gave the film two out of five stars, saying "patient adult smurfs will be checking their watches as excitable child smurfs lose themselves in the high jinks." frank lovece of "newsday" gave the film two out of four stars, saying "not smurftastic, but not smurfawful, either." loren king of "the boston globe" gave the film two out of four stars, saying "that the mushroom- dwelling blue creatures still manage to be endearing even in their second big-screen extravaganza (in 3-d, no less) is about the best that can be said of "smurfs 2." kyle smith of the "new york post" gave the film one out of four stars, saying "they're as lethally uninteresting as barney the purple dinosaur, though a godzilla-style "barney vs. smurfs" is a movie i would pay to see, provided maximum destruction were promised." mark olsen of the "los angeles times" gave the film two and a half stars out of five, saying "right down to the brute functionality of its title, ""the smurfs 2"" may be the platonic ideal of a major studio sequel - no markedly better or worse than the first and with just enough difference to lay claim to being something new."
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