Papa Smarf is mysteriously captured by Evil Vizards Gargmail and his brother, Razmail. As the sole woman in her village of male smefs, Smordate is leading the new adventure of the Little Blue Humanoids.
“Smurfs,” Rihanna was included as Smurfet in the Animated Musical Film released on 18 July. Megastar co-produced the film and released a original song for the film’s Soundtrack in May.
Since it was Rihanna’s first new track in three years – after rumors that pop star was retiring from music – it was big news for her fans.
But the reactions were mixed: Although many of them celebrate “my friend” as “a club Benger”, others were disappointed to see his return to a children’s film.
Hollywood dominated for decades: Smarfet Theory
The Grammy-winning artist-turn-edge-editoror, who is pregnant of her third child, is generally lakes as a symbol of black women empowerment.
Still even though the new “Smurfs” gives a strong role to the film Smurfette, the name of CARACT is a synonym of a complete sexist pop culture trop ever: Smurfette theory.
Concept new York Times Article refers to a pattern that can still be widely seen in films, TV series or video games: a single female character is surrounded by a white men’s contingent of heroes.
Beyond Smarfs, the trop can be seen in many other popular universe, to Miss Piggi in “The MEIPS” in “Star Wars”, “The Super Mario Brothers’ film” from Kanga to “The Super Mario Brothers” from Kanga to “The Mites” in “The Mites”.
A meta reversal of smurfate theory in recent films
The 2025 “Smurfs” film, reflecting the endless cycle of Hollywood, reboots, spin-off and sequel, followed three other US-made features in the franchise, all based on a series developed by Belgian comic artist drinks in 1958 for the first time in 1958.
The 2011 Live Action Animated film, “The Smurfs”, reflects the problematic gender imbalance of the Smart Universe V Gargmail, plays with the puppets, which represents: “I am a father smarf,” hey sneors, using a voice, using a red hat. “I have 99 sons and a daughter – nothing is strange about it!”
Smordate’s original sexist backstory has been re -observed in “The Smord 2” (2013): he was not the early part of the village, but was built out of the soil by Gargamel, who prepared him as a bad detective to infiltrate the Smarf community. But once Smurfette knows the smurfs and finds out how open and sociable they are displaced by their guru, and Papa Smurf turns it into a real Smurf.
Magic so metamorphos converts her into a more stereotypically feminine character: without her the black hair is gymnast in green locks; Her generic smef slippers and simple tank tops are very magically restored as high heels and a frilli dress.
Smarfet theory is directly dealt with in “Smords: The Lost Village” (2017). Smurfette discovers for her purpose, saying that there is a name describing their identity in other Smurfs around her: brain, clumsy or sleep. In her self-khoj yatra, she makes a mistake in a village in all-women Smard.
One type of misunderstanding ‘
But try to reverse it gender roles So criticized: “I am to empower all girls, but not in the loss of boys. I did not like the way boys Smurfs were depicted as Bambling Idiots,” a parent said that the general meaning reviewed “Smurfs: The Lost Village” on the general meaning media.
Film critic Marine Johanson watched things equally. The film “seems to be feminists, but only falls down at the smarfili regressive tip of the penis,” she wrote, “by embracing the gentle form of misunderstanding that puts women in a chair.”
Others said that presenting new female characters, extending only options for Smurf Mercandicine feels more drive than profit than feminist values: “It is very clear whether Smurfs: The Lost Village ‘is present for a new smurfs universe or as a younger one, except for older girls, and, probably, more and more girls, and,, more and more girls, more and more girls, more and more girls, more and more girls, more and more girls, more and more girls. Also, and, with more girls, also with more girls, and, with more girls, also with more girls, and Vocal Reviewing the film at that time. An animated TV series with women characters followed the film and is still running.
Has been co-died by color?
Meanwhile, the SMURF brand is facing other challenges beyond gender issues.
In Germany, organisms have been co-dated by the creators that promote far-flung populous ideas. The AI-related video set in Smurf Universe began to broadcast on social media platforms last year that the computer manipulated to criticize the voice of the original narrator, for example, a believed to be “Vok Dictatorship.”
Election campaign events for the color right option for Germany (AFD) saw the collectable smurf idols, whose party is very light blue.
“We take the misuse of this brand very seriously,” the right holder of Smurfs said, reacting to the video made with permission in a press release.
“In particular, we clearly distance away from the content of these posting and their right -wing populous contexts;” He said. “Smords symbolize childhood and innocence. They stand for value as tolerance, respect and friendship and should not be misused in any way for the purposes that are contrary to their value and history.”
French political commentator Antony Buono created controversy with its 2011 book, analyzing the symbolism of the Smarf universe. The author argued that the Smurf Society includes overtones of stalinism and Nazism, and that wicked figures can be read as an antisemic caricature.
However, Buono clarified that he did not believe that the creator of Smurfs deliberately added the racist overtone to his stories, he said that he said that he said that Mentor At that time: “Peyo was not political at all; it was all unconscious.”
Edited by: Stuart Braun
