Revisiting the Live-Action Movie Universe: 10 Years Later

It's been ten years since the first Smurfs movie in the Live-Action Movie Universe has been universe, and since I have only seen that and The Smurfs 2 a few times since their releases, I saw those movies again recently and I'm still floored by the great (if not absolutely wonderful) job Sony Pictures Animation did in bringing the Smurfs to life. It wasn't like watching a live-action cartoon like other efforts in bringing cartoon characters to a live-action universe. It was like watching real people come to life. It was like everything I imagined the Smurfs to be if they actually existed in the real world. I also like how they interacted with the modern world in the few times they appeared in it through time travel, even with the cast changes between the two movies. The only thing I didn't like of that universe is that we saw very little of the Smurfs' own world and how they interact in that, which would have been an interesting thing to explore in the movie series had the producers not decided to go all-CGI reboot with The Lost Village. There was also too much focus on the human characters and not enough on the Smurfs. Anyway, my overall opinion is that this was a great look into a world that I wish would have lasted longer than just two movies.