The Smurfs – Season One, Vol. One
- The long wait is over.the Smurfs on DVD for the first time ever! They’re finally here! Handy, Beefy, Grouchy, Brainy, Bone idle, Smurfette, Papa Smurf and more favorites bring you the utmost show on Smurf – on DVD for the first time ever. It’s Time of year One, Vol. 1 of Smurfs’ Adventures, the Emmy-winning animated series [Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series 1982-83] that delighted Saturday morni
The long wait is over…the Smurfs on DVD for the first time ever! They’re finally here! Handy, Beefy, Grouchy, Brainy, Bone idle, Smurfette, Papa Smurf and more favorites bring you the utmost show on Smurf – on DVD for the first time ever. It’s Time of year One, Vol. 1 of Smurfs’ Adventures, the Emmy-winning animated series [Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series 1982-83] that delighted Saturday daylight cartoon fans for nearly a decade. Of course, everywhere Smurfs are, you’ll also find evil wizard Gargamel and his cat Azrael – plus monsters, dragons and trolls – keeping our three-apple-high heroes on their tiny blue toes throughout 19 cartoon escapades. Ready for adventure, laughs and enchantment? Abso-Smurfly!
DVD Features:
Featurette
Music Video
Beloved in Europe for nearly 20 being before they became a toy and marketing hit on American shores, Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s industrious and charming Smurfs were a natural scale for Saturday daylight TV; fans who grew up with their well loved and Emmy-nominated network run (1981-1990) can now delight in (and share) the first 19 episodes of the Hanna-Barbera produced series, which are remastered and compiled in this tidy two-disc set. Even if simplistic by today’s vigor standards, the quarter-century-plus since their U.S. TV debut has not diminished the key ingredient to the Smurfs’ enduring appeal: their unflappably upbeat demeanor, which helps Papa Smurf, Smurfette, and the rest of the clan overcome the schemes of their chief rival, the evil wizard Gargamel, but also a perilous bird (“The Smurfs and the Howlibird”), a duplicitous genie (“The Magical Meanie”), and the Tribble-like “Fuzzles” (“Fuzzle Distress”), and the giant Bigmouth (“Soup a la Smurf”). More benign issues are also handled with the Smurfs’ predictable can-do mind-set, like Harmony’s embarrassment over his lack of tunesmanship in “Smurphony in ‘C’” or the hubbub caused by the arrival of Smurfette (addressed in “The Smurfette” and “Romeo and Smurfette”). And if the dialogue remains a touch on the corny side (especially the incessant use of “smurf” to replace any number of nouns, verbs and adverbs), it’s delivered with excellent cheer by some of the best names in vocal talent, including Paul Winchell, Don Messick, Lucille Bliss, June Foray, Frank Welker, and Lenny Weinrib. It’s unfortunate that the set’s supplemental features don’t delve further into the Smurfs’ long history (or even into the TV series) with any point; the Emmy-nominated 1982 primetime special The Smurfs’ Springtime Special is the chief superfluous, while Smurfs: The Music Video offers tantalizing snippets of production sketches and promotional footage in a messy montage. Previews for DVD releases of Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry, and Looney Tunes round out the set. –Paul Gaita
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