As the angry Smurf in Columbus Circle portended earlier this week: The Smurfs have arrived in town, and they brought a 3D movie with them. We saw it, and it is pretty much exactly the corny joke-filled, blue-toned combination of Enchanted and Alvin and the Chipmunks that you expected/feared. The little ones will love it, and the grownups will be grateful that it is less than an hour and a half (86 minutes!). La-la-la-la-la-la-sing-a-happy-song. We could sit here and list the movie's few charms (Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, the CGI cat that steals the movie) and its many, many, many grating uses of the word "smurf" ("Smurftamistic," "Pessasmurftic," the awful "Smurf This Way" Guitar Hero version of "Walk This Way") but that is like shooting little blue fish in a little blue barrel. Instead we'd like to take a minute to point out the one thing the movie does surprisingly not badly: New York City.
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Review: For Better Or Worse, The Smurfs Movie Is A New York Movie
At La Esquina, There Will Be C.H.U.D.
La Esquina has yet another secret. The restaurant on the corner of Cleveland and Kenmare—that famously requires customers to go through a series of doors, stairs, and even its kitchen in order to get to a hidden dining room—was the scene of one of the most slightly scary horror movie sequences of all time. In a sequence toward the end of C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers), the camera starts with a lower Manhattan view at dusk, World Trade Center and all, drifting and finally settling over an all-night corner diner.
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