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16. Hey Arnold!: The Movie

Inviso: 5
Genny: 7
Stifled: 13
Charon: 13
Johnbobb: 15
JONA: 18
Snake: 20
Scarlet: 21
Red: 24
Karo: 28

Total Score: 154

Inviso: I believe this was the first movie on this list that I actually saw in theaters. And honestly, I was always a big fan of Hey Arnold! I thought it had a diverse cast of characters that made for interesting storylines, since it didnt always NEED to focus entirely on Arnold, but rather on the eccentric individuals in his life. The story of the movie is well-told. Its a typical David and Goliath situation with a mega corporation trying to tear down the very neighborhood thats so integral to the shows setting, and Arnold has to find a way to stop it. With the sole except of Bridgette, who I cannot remember existing before now, and Murray, who was probably a background character before now, the hero characters all come from within the universe of the show and dont behave out-of-character, and it ultimately makes for a thrilling plotline.

Genny: Hey Arnold! was a show I loved as a kid. I always admired Arnold's positive yet down to earth and realistic attitude. It's great how the movie acknowledges this several times and that's what ends up saving the day. Well that along with the help of "Deep Voice" and I had to have a good laugh at that one. Deep Voice's identity was so damn obvious from the jump, but whatcha gonna do? The one thing I can't really forgive this movie for is that Helga had an out away from locking away the feelings that tormented her because everything was all on the table and she throws it away to go back to the status quo. I just don't understand why? The movie feels like a complete waste of time because nothing changes except that Arnold's home town becomes a national landmark. I get that it was planned for the show to continue after this point, but gosh.
As an aside I love that Eugene's hopes for a musical number get quashed TWICE. HA!

Stifled: On one hand, the premise of this movie is a bastard love child between no less than 4 episodes of the show, possibly more. On the other hand, once they get past the cloned aspects and get to the content unique to the movie, lots of fun can be had. If its possible to be thoroughly annoyed at the lack of originality of something while also enjoying the things it does that are new, Hey Arnold found that magical formula and put it in the theater. Helga as Deep Voice was pretty great and just adds to her stalker credentials. I mean she totally infiltrated that compound before Arnold and Gerald did and without spy gear. Thats hardcore. And you know what else is pretty great? No singing! Eugene tries but gets shut down. Thank you, Arnold.
My only major non-related complaint is that Jungle Movie deserved the theater treatment over this. This easily could have just been another episode of the show, but Jungle Movie is THE movie. But thats more of a Nickelodeon error than the fault of this content. As it is, Hey Arnold The Movie is a fun ride if you can stop yourself from being annoyed at the copying of its own source material.

Traviss Opinion: Travis really likes Hey Arnold. We binge watched most of the show together about a year ago. Then the Jungle Movie. Now this. He cuddled on the couch with me and watched it.

Charon: The bigget flaw this movie had was not resolving the Helga/Arnold situation at all, but just letting it return to how it was before. That's a little unfortunate given that Helga finally came forward with her feelings in this film. However, this was still a surprisingly good movie. I wasn't sure this series could really be converted into a movie format, but it worked just fine. Bridget was kinda unbelievable but otherwise, the format worked well enough.
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Johnbobb: So, like quite a few tv show movies, this one doesnt really do a whole lot more than a couple episodes of the show couldve. The thing it has going for it? Its a pretty alright show. Arnolds grandparents are still the highlight, and overall the movie holds up better than a lot of others from the same period. Animation still looks nice almost 20 years later. Not crazy original, but acceptable at worst.

JONA: I really liked this show as a kid and enjoyed the Jungle Movie when it came out but this movie's not great. This movie was supposed to air on TV and it shows. There's not any good moments for any side characters. The only moment that involved side characters was the bit with Grandpa and the other boarders rigging explosives. The movie kinda plays things safe with the whole spy theme and there are really only 2 standout moments in the movie with those being the confession and the bus scene at the end.

Snake: Surprisingly decent set-up for a plot but bad animation holds it back. Its ultimately harmless and brainless, not very well-told or funny.

Scarlet: You have to wonder why Karo even bothers to think he can make lists at this point. They arent remotely worthy of the time of Gauntlet Crew. Especially when you find yourself wondering what the hell the point of Hey Arnold! Is. I have no idea. I cant for the life of me understand what this movie means culturally or societally. I cant figure out what demographic would care about this. Its not that there is a production error here making the film on unwatchable, or that the script is particularly bad. I just dont comprehend why this exists. Its just so unremarkable and mundane that I have to ask why Karo thinks we should waste our time watching things that seem to serve no purpose.
Rating: 15/100

Red: I feel like children's cartoons where through this period where all characters had to have some weird disfigurement and that Hey Arnold may have started this stupid craze with its dumb football headed main character. This series never clicked for me on TV and the movie is a big miss as well. It kind of just has dumb need to spell everything out for you. We know the girl doesn't hate Arnold despite treating him like garbage, and then surprise surprise shes helping him all along. Its not really a surprise, the rest of the movie is kind of dumb in this way, making sure to spell out exactly what is going to move the plot forward, which will involve two dumb kids saving a town that it doesnt really seem like anyone really wanted to save anyway.
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Karo: Based on a nickelodeon show about a little boy born with a disfiguring birth defect that caused his head to be four times the width of his body.
In the film, a developer wants to build a shopping mall in the trashy ghetto where the kids live, and for some reason they object vehemently to the idea of having to move somewhere that doesnt reek of mildew and urine.
So this is just some evil businessman kind of villain who is trying to make a profit while stepping on the little guy, right? Actually, no, the developer in question was the descendant of someone who was humiliated in some minor revolutionary war battle that took place where Arnold's neighborhood now stands, and he wants to destroy it as revenge. So yes, he went into business and built FutureTech Industries solely for the purpose of destroying a bunch of buildings that weren't even there in the 1700s. No kidding, this has got to be the most idiotic villain backstory ever created.
The kids try to stop this by breaking into FutureTech's sensitive corporate headquarters multiple times, where they just have the run of the place because apparently the future of technology is no fucking locks on any doors.
Though it might be mostly free of the kind of juvenile humor that plagues most nicktoon franchises, the production quality is drastically lower than the other films of those shows. The dark secret here is that this 'movie' was actually intended to be a made-for-tv special called 'Arnold Saves the Neighborhood', but instead they decided to toss it in theaters and charge full price for this piece of trash made on a tenth of the budget of their other movies. This is horrible even for Nickelodeon, and is a slap in the face of people who actually like the franchise.
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PrinceKaro posted...

The dark secret here is that this 'movie' was actually intended to be a made-for-tv special called 'Arnold Saves the Neighborhood', but instead they decided to toss it in theaters and charge full price for this piece of trash made on a tenth of the budget of their other movies.

And the recently-released Jungle Movie was supposed to be the theatrical finale.
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That's especially bad it was supposed to be a TV special because the animation quality was actually less than the show itself. No matter how you slice it, Arnold's "movie" was a downgrade.
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Underleveled posted...

PrinceKaro posted...

The dark secret here is that this 'movie' was actually intended to be a made-for-tv special called 'Arnold Saves the Neighborhood', but instead they decided to toss it in theaters and charge full price for this piece of trash made on a tenth of the budget of their other movies.

And the recently-released Jungle Movie was supposed to be the theatrical finale.

I know all of this, but I still enjoyed the "movie" (special). Geez some of you people are impossible to please.
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Outlier:

Karo: 112
Red: 94
Genny: 90
Stifled: 87
Scarlet: 79
Johnbobb: 77
Snake: 72
Inviso: 68
JONA: 56
Charon: 50

Hint for 15: two-thirds of the rankers ranked this movie within no more than 7 points of each other
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Boy I have no idea what that could be. 2/3rds of the rankers might have been on a similar page about...

Guess for #15: The Wild Thornberries Movie

Changing my guess to this
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Sounds like it could be Recess.
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GenesisSaga posted...

Geez some of you people are impossible to please.

The writeups are getting more and more nonsensical too.
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So did people expect so much of this list to be bad/medicore going in or was that an unwelcome surprise?
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I expected it
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The majority seemed to be bracing for bad. Me personally, I was looking forward to it since I grew up with a lot of these.
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Karo told me they were terrible, so I went in with that. I didn't expect to like the list that much because it's really not my cup of tea, but I didn't expect to dislike it as much as I did.
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Did you guys do the Tiny Toons How I Spent My Summer Vacation movie on a previous gauntlet?

I'm not saying that movie is amazing or anything but it would lift this terrible list pretty considerably.
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I like to keep an open mind with things but It was hard to see these films beforehand as anything but bad.
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Lopen posted...

Did you guys do the Tiny Toons How I Spent My Summer Vacation movie on a previous gauntlet?

I'm not saying that movie is amazing or anything but it would lift this terrible list pretty considerably.

I think we only did theatrical releases.
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I was prepared for a 33% even split on good/bad/mediocre.

Ended up with more like 45% bad, 35% mediocre, and 20% good.

The main issue for me isn't that people are finding the majority of the list bad (because that's true), it's that the list makers can't distinguish the bad from the mediocre and the decent. IN OTHER WORDS Y'ALL ARE FINDING THE WRONG MOVIES BAD, DAMMIT!
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Ah. I am surprised all of these had theatrical releases! Wonder if being a bit more loose and going with everything available could salvage the list.

I commend your dedication in slogging through this list in any case. I haven't seen most of these but I've seen enough of them combined with the subject matter for others that I know I would be tapping out after like 5 or 10.
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Lopen posted...

Ah. I am surprised all of these had theatrical releases! Wonder if being a bit more loose and going with everything available could salvage the list.

There is also a non-theatrical list in our potential lists pool.
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G.I. Joe: The Movie was developed with a theatrical release in mind but never quite got there because the My Little Pony and Transformers movies fared poorly so it was released direct-to-video instead.

list invalidated
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I for one really wish the Peanuts Movie was on this list.
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown would have been cool. I think that had a theatrical release? I remember almost nothing about it aside from the stupid I before E song.
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GenesisSaga posted...

I for one really wish the Peanuts Movie was on this list.

Yeah I was hoping for it as well. Such a good movie. And I had already watched it twice with Travis so perfect writeup material!
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I saw it last month. It's easily my favorite Peanuts movie and I grew up with the made-for-tv movies.
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Lopen posted...

A Boy Named Charlie Brown would have been cool. I think that had a theatrical release? I remember almost nothing about it aside from the stupid I before E song.

I mentioned Charlie Brown but Karo said he didn't really consider it a TV show, which is fair. Even though we saw them aired daily on Nick in the 90's, before that they aired like once a year if that in the 70s and 80s.

Same thing with how Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry aren't really TV shows, even though that's how many/most of us were introduced to them.
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Wasn't DuckTales based on Scrooge comics though, or are the nephews original characters created for the show?
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GenesisSaga posted...

Wasn't DuckTales based on Scrooge comics though, or are the nephews original characters created for the show?

DuckTales is a TV show.

Peanuts are half-hour specials made once every few years since the 60s, aired sporadically, and by the 90s they had amassed enough to air them daily and call it a TV show. There are no "seasons" of Peanuts, and each special or "episode" has almost a completely different voice cast, because they were made so few and far between that each kid was only young enough to voice one or two of them (tangentially, did you know that Fergie was the voice of Sally at one point?).

I'm kinda neutral on it but I 100% get why Karo didn't count it as a TV show for the purposes of this list.
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Yeah I'd agree with not counting Peanuts as a TV show, even if it'd be a welcome addition quality-wise
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so uh, I apparently made a mistake entering data in the spreadsheet and hey arnold should have been 19th place with 164 points

Here is a recap of the list thus far with the proper rankings restored:

16. The Man Called Flintstone
17. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
18. Teacher's Pet
19. Hey Arnold!: The Movie
20. The Rugrats Movie
21. Jetsons: The Movie
22. BraveStarr: The Movie
23. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
24. Doug's 1st Movie
25. Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
26. Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
27. The Care Bears Movie
28. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
29. Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
30. My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
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THIS lS EVEN WORSE!
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15. The Chipmunk Adventure

Karo: 2
Stifled: 6
Red: 12
Scarlet: 16
Inviso: 17
Johnbobb: 17
Snake: 19
Genny: 20
JONA: 22
Charon: 23

Total Score: 153

Karo: A pair of jewel smugglers use a balloon race between the Chipmunks and Chipettes as a cover for their dastardly deeds, and both of our of cute little trios are launched into a series of musical misadventures across the globe.
The rationale behind this is that nobody would suspect youngsters of foul play, something that anyone who has been around kids at all will tell you very much otherwise.
The smugglers also don't seem to be concerned about the fact that a bunch of talking teenage rodents flying into random foreign countries in hot air balloons without passports would actually generate quite a bit of unwanted attention, believe it or not.
After our furry heroes travel through many very culturally insensitive depictions of world locations, the villains' deceit is discovered and everything is resolved with a generic cartoon chase scene.
This film also boasts the most drastic variation of animation quality ever within a single movie. Over the course of the film the animation ranges from 'direct to video sequel' to 'disney renaissance' and everything in between. The transitions often happen mid-scene and are extreme enough to be noticed even by laymen.
All in all it is decidedly above par for these kind of movies, and should be quite refreshing to someone who has only seen the excruciating live action films.

Stifled: Ive always really liked these little guys. The original show was great. Even the newer Nickelodeon show with the weird computer animated graphics is pretty fun. But it doesnt get any better than this movie. Chipmunks vs. Chipettes in a balloon race around the world unknowingly smuggling diamonds! Thats pretty hardcore for a kids movie honestly. I mean sure, it takes a mountain of adult supervision failures to make it happen, but isnt that what 80s and 90s movies are all about? I love how action packed the movie is without really even having any direct fighting. Its more just the gang evading their troubles, yet it doesnt detract from the intensity. The songs are all great, though the Getting Lucky song during the snake charming sequence made me giggle. And oh dear lord the penguin song. That is a guaranteed cry every time I have ever watched it. Such a beautiful song. The two diamond thieves and their dog are hilarious too. Sometimes a bad villain can put a wrench in even the best movie, but luckily they fit right in!

Traviss Opinion: This was definitely a favorite of his. He was glued to the screen the whole time. He loves balloons, especially of the large hot air variety. He was totally jamming to the music as well, particularly the battle song between the Munks and Ettes.

Red: First off, I have to say that of all the characters that appear in any movie on this list, Miss Miller is above all the one most deserving of being thrown in jail. Through no fault of anyone but her own, she manages to drive on the wrong side of the road which somehow saves the day. Mind you, she is the perfect representation of how people actually drive at LAX, so I cant fault the movie entirely for this. Honestly, this could have been far worse of a movie than I expected(I did actually watch this one a ton as a kid, one of my cousins loved it), and was far less annoying than I feared. Way better than any of the recent live actiony Chipmunk movies at least.
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Scarlet: You have to wonder why Karo thought a list comprised of high-pitched voices used in elementary school hearing tests in order to gauge the range of a childs auditory capacity was worthy of the time of Gauntlet Crew. Especially when you are assaulted on both sides by Chips and Chipettes, each with their own grating, ear-bleeding form of vocal inexpression. The greatest villains in the universe would weaponize these voices and target hostile foreign powers, forcing them to capitulate against the most extreme, vile torture concocted in the history of Machiavellian power grabs.
Rating: 22/100

Inviso: First of all, fuck Alvin and Brittany. It is NOT enjoyable watching these two self-centered brats order their pushover siblings around, while poor Simon and Jeannette get crapped on. Second, fuck the voice acting. Too damn high-pitched all around. Third, the animation is easily the best of the first eight movies on the list, which is amazing given the only one-year difference between Chipmunks and Transformers/MLP/Care Bears 2. I think the animation itself, combined with the relative inoffensiveness of the plot (its not mind-numbingly stupid like other movies Ive watched thus far) allows it to rank this highbut its still super dumb. Oh, and the music? Honestly, most of the songs were enjoyable. Not memorablebut they didnt annoy me whenever they started up.

Johnbobb: God the animation here is unsettling. The Chipmunks look like I expected, but the humans are kind of terrifying by comparison, like they dont belong in the movie, but the craziness of it makes the chipmunk-only scenes look kind of cool. I never really minded the Chipmunks themselves. I fucking hate the voices but the characters have always been kind of silly and fun. They manage to be devious geniuses while also being idiots. Too bad the villains are crappy and the plot is ridiculous. The villains plan is quite possibly the DUMBEST plan Ive ever seen in a movie before, and its even DUMBER that it almost works.

Snake: Surprisingly alright for an 80-minute endurance test of constant Chipmunk talking and singing. The plot is boring and predictable but it didnt totally melt my brain from badness like some other offenders on this list.

Genny: We now present gratuitous panty shots and cultural appropriation the movie! The plot of this film is preposterous, but unlike one of the movies I've ranked below it in this list it does at least actually HAVE a plot that it sees through to completion. Sadly this whole movie is an excuse to perform 80s pop songs and make it appeal to kids because HA HA FUNNY HIGH VOICES KIDS LOVE THOSE! The villains' motivations in wasting a bunch of money to illegally sell diamonds makes no sense and the movie does a terrible job of explaining why they would humor the competition in the first place.
Not to mention Alvin, Britney, and Theodore are all terribly annoying and greedy the whole movie long. Two of them undergo a redemption of sorts I guess, albeit one of them for the most useless sidequest in the history of sidequests, but I guess they had to discover the diamonds somehow or the only conflict would be about who's the better rock and roller or who's better at video games. Anyway despite some... disturbing choices the animation is quite crisp for an 80s movie. It's better than it looks on the actual show, which I can't say for a lot of these films. The only thing is that during some of the dances the chipmunks movements are almost TOO fluid- like disturbingly real. That's only complaint, you know other than the plot, and the motive, and the setting, and the characters...

JONA: There's some decent animation and a decent song or two, but I just never was really into the Chipmunks.
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Charon: A very uncomfortable film to be sure. I have never been much of a fan and find their singing to be annoying, but the amount of panty shots here on the Chipettes is a bit hard to ignore. It's so over the line and I felt dirty the entire time watching this one. Beyond that, the plot is not super interesting as too many of these feature two bumbling idiots that can't seem to beat children at a game of wits. I'm not sure why all the adults in this universe and completely useless or how the chipmunks fall for the worst scam ever yet are then totally competent in the face of henchmen you'd guess would be more than capable. I think the animators through in as much prepubscent panties as they could to distract you from how thin and frail the plot was. There has to be some non-terrible reason for all that underskirting... right?
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Outlier:

Karo: 125
Red: 99
Stifled: 98
Genny: 97
Johnbobb: 83
Inviso: 76
Scarlet: 75
Snake: 69
Charon: 64
JONA: 59

Hint for #14: has three different instances of two people giving the same rank.
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That sounds like it almost has to be GI joe?
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I am thinking gi joe too.

That error hurt my outlier score a lot somehow.
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Wow the upper half of my list is taking a BEATING!

Im gonna do something new and exciting and guess...

Transformers!
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PrinceKaro posted...

Charon: There has to be some non-terrible reason for all that underskirting... right?

Nope. I feel like people were just a less discerning about child nudity back then before pedophilia was such a hot topic. Remember that scene with Penny in only panties in The Rescuers? Probably wouldn't fly today.

Oh yeah, and

Guess for #14: YOOO JOE

Though the way you guys are botching this list it's equally likely to be Rugrats in Paris or something.
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v_charon posted...

That error hurt my outlier score a lot somehow.

Oh no you poor thing >_____>
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14. Smurfs: The Lost Village

Karo: 4
Inviso: 4
Scarlet: 13
Charon: 14
Red: 14
Johnbobb: 18
JONA: 20
Stifled: 21
Genny: 21
Snake: 22

Total Score: 151

Karo: This new CGI movie is an attempt to patch up the damage hollywood has done to the franchise in recent years, and for the most part it succeeds at this task. It is refreshing to see the smurfs cute again, rather then as hideous little blue orcs.
Basically the story is Smurfette is feeling depressed that unlike the other smurfs she has no special trait or talent other than 'being a girl'. A series of events leads her to find another all-female village of smurfs thus solving the mystery of smurf reproduction at last. Cue a generic journey and some generic Gargamel hijinks and thats the whole film.
Despite the generally one-note characterization of the little blue guys, the were some pretty funny bits of dialogue in places. However, the movie was as its best when it good-naturedly made fun of the franchise, and it is a shame it did not go further down that path then it did.
The result is something charming and inoffensive, but is just your standard mid-tier CGI movie that follows a safe formula pretty much by the numbers. It almost seems as if they were so afraid creating an eldritch abomination in the vein of the two live-action movies that they took almost no risks whatsoever this time around.

Inviso: You know, there are movies on these lists that really surprise you because they turn out decent when they really have no business doing so. Animation 2, that movie was Trolls. This list? Smurfs: The Lost Village. Here I was, expecting some stupid kids movie based on an existing property, and yet Smurfs managed to intrigue me. Going into this, my only knowledge of the Smurfs was the basic concept that the Smurfs are this little race of blue guys, and Smurfette is the one girl among them. Lo and behold, Smurfette is the main character of the story, trying to find her place in a world where she doesnt feel unique or special outside of her gender (a common criticism of old school kids show casts). And the movie is interesting because of this. Its a LITTLE formulaic, but it kept me intrigued and kept Smurfette at the forefront without overindulging in the side characters. And as a result, it managed to elicit a genuine emotional reaction from me at the ending. So Id say thats a win for this movie.

Scarlet: You have to wonder why Karo thought including this sequel to a live-action/animation hybrid film on this list was a good idea or even why it was worthy of the time of Gauntlet Crew. Especially when you slowly come to the sad realization that every major voice in the film is clearly only in it for a paycheck. Every line is delivered with a definitive note of sad resignation, passionlessly floating like disembodied ghosts through a world of almost-but-not-quite magic. Possibly its because this movie feels lazily phoned-in throughout. In fact, its so lazy that I imagine they didnt include Lazy Smurf because they murdered him and used his blood to pen the script instead of ink in order to truly capture the essence of laziness embodied here.
Rating: 26/100

Charon: Extremely impressive, visually speaking at least. From a story standpoint, it's not bad either really. I was interested to know they kept with Smurfette's comic storyline origin story but I thought the big reveal of the lost village itself could have been more exciting. Discovering it should have been a climax, but it felt like the movie was more interesting before they did. Mostly for the fact that Smurfette is the only girl initially and she was a creation, but these other female smurfs are not apparently. More backstory could have been useful. I did end up liking the main cast however, which was interesting since I didn't think the 3 that were picked to be that along with Smurfette were the correct choices.
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Red: The poor smurfs are doomed worse than ponies are, reduced to a single defining characteristic that will govern each and every action they will ever do for the rest of their lives. the poor smurfs get to be a single stereotype for the rest of their lives. Thats a pretty crappy existence. And then there is Smurfette, the single female in their civilization and apparently she is worthless. This plot is insanely cookie cutter and includes a death that is obviously going to get reversed because this is probably the most generic movie on the entire list. Also Smurfette still ends the movie with no defining characteristic, so she is still total outcast smurf if you really think about it. Azrael is a pretty awesome kitty, at least.

Johnbobb: This is kind of a mixed bag, and not really in a good way. Im fully in favor of having more female Smurfs and making Smurfette into an actual character. But if this was their way of taking the Smurfs into a new, modern direction, this wasnt really the way to do it. You cant try to flesh out characters and also have them be defined by lazy stereotypes. That combined with subpar writing is why well never get a Disney-level Smurf movie, not matter how many times they reboot it, and having Dark Heart and the Care Bears praying for its revival isnt enough to save the franchise. Still, the animation is pleasantly cartoony and the voice cast is impressive (if absurdly underutilized) so I feel comfortable chalking it up to forgettable rather than terrible.

JONA: The first 40 minutes are pretty dull and that's the amount of time it takes to get to the Lost Village. From there, there honestly are some entertaining character interactions but it's still not exactly a good movie.

Stifled: The Lost Village is the story of how Demi Lovato painted herself blue, found a real life tumblr in the woods, and then overdosed on magical power to save her friends.
And you know what? I actually kind of liked it. Focusing on Smurfette and removing the stupid live action stuff was a really good idea for rebooting this franchise. While the Smurfs have never really been my cup of tea, there was some decent character development going on here. And even better, there was some Smurf development too. Sure, we still dont know how they reproduce, but maybe now they themselves can figure it out. You know, cuz there are more smurfginas now.
Also, the bunny scene showed us where Rian Johnson got his inspiration for that horse chase in The Last Jedi!

Traviss Opinion: Travis, of course, liked Gargamels cat. Thats about it.

Genny: This was easily the best Smurfs movie, but that's not saying a whole lot. I just don't understand how Sony thinks it's a good practice to keep pushing these things out while ignoring properties that could actually be interesting, new, or exciting like Popeye directed by Gendy Tarkovski. This was a fun, but very shallow adventure movie. Basically it's the film equivalent of swimming in the kiddie pool: kids will love it, I enjoyed it until the water got unnaturally warm. I can't even call the plot "twist" predictable as anyone with more than half a brain could've called it just by watching the trailer. At least the flora and fauna of the Lost World itself was pretty cool even if the inhabitants of the Lost Village were not. Fuck the dance party ending, but the animation looked fine.

Snake: Made for kids, the humor is juvenile and the animation is lackluster. The voice acting is bland, the script is terrible, and like every piece of Smurf media, Its not for me.
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I forgot Smurfs was still in. Interesting to know that it's not complete garbage.
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Outlier:

Karo: 135
Stifled: 105
Genny: 104
Red: 99
Johnbobb: 87
Inviso: 86
Snake: 77
Scarlet: 76
JONA: 65
Charon: 64

Hint for #13: despite a whopping five top 10 rankings, this movie misses out on the overall top 10 by three whole spots
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I'm gonna guess Rugrats in Paris

Or Recess
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Haha oh wow I also forgot about the Smurfs.

I wonder if by some crazy miracle the ponies are gonna drop next?!
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I think this is the comprehensive of what's left?

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987)
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
A Goofy Movie (1995)
Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)
Recess: School's Out (2001)
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)
My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
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yes
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5 top 10s eh?

Guess for #13: Beavis and Butt-head Do America

As an aside I absolutely love how being completely generic and offering little in the way of risk or creativity can net you both 4th and 21st on the same list.

You guys aren't doing it right! No seriously, your writeups don't even match your rankings anymore. I'm with charon, I don't get it...
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