Five reasons why you might want to see the Smurfs movie this summer
1) You're fed up with your kids. They're annoying. They're out of control. They need to be punished. The multiplex has the answer, courtesy of this formless branded mind-numbing head-wrecker. It's a garish animation that celebrates everyone's favourite yet entirely interchangeable blue-skinned Belgian berks in a fifth movie outing from Hollywood. This one is notable only for featuring and foregrounding a multi-jobbing Rihanna as Smurfette and also the producer and creator of the film's ear-scrapingly generic Smurf anthem, Friend of Mine. Sample lyric over malfunctioning drum machine? 'Feel like a friend of mine, feel like a friend of mine, like a friend of mine, feel like a friend of mine.'
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