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The last few years have seen the resur­gence of many child­hood favorites from the 80’s.  Alvin  & The Chipmunks,GI Joe and even Trans­form­ers. With the announce­ments of Mighty Mouse, He-Man and even Max Steel it seems Hol­ly­wood is primed and ready to pil­lage more child­hood sta­ples for box office rev­enue. One of newest projects gain­ing momen­tum is the Smurfs due in part of its all-star cast and the curios­ity sur­round­ing pre­sen­ta­tion. Well thanks to the crew at com­ing soon we now have a pic­ture of Hank Azaria as Gargamel. I have to admit it looks really close to the car­toon but the real ques­tion is how will the Smurfs look and will it be successful?

The  Smurfs opens August 3, 2011 in my“favorite” film style the all mighty 3-D.

The cast includes Neil Patrick Har­ris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Ver­gara, Anton Yelchin, Jonathan Win­ters, Katy Perry, Alan Cum­ming, Fred Armisen, George Lopez, Paul Reubens, John Oliver, Kenan Thomp­son, B.J. Novak, Jeff Fox­wor­thy, Wolf­gang Puck and Gary Basaraba.

.…and it’s not the Rid­dler, at least not yet. On the heels of The Dark Knight, Warner Premiere, Warner Brothers’ direct to video pro­duc­tion branch plans to show you an even more dis­turb­ing Gotham this sum­mer. “Bat­man: Under The Red Hood” plans to bring to life one of the dark­est chap­ters in the detective’s his­tory as he has to deal with a loss more tragic than the one that made him first don the cape and cowl. The cre­ators have assured us that this one will be more vio­lent than Christo­pher Nolan’s last block­buster by describ­ing the open­ing scene. Taken straight from the pages of the clas­sic story “A Death In The Fam­ily,” fans will be treated to the Joker lit­er­ally beat­ing (Jason Todd) Robin to death. The irony here is that some might think this scene is too much for a PG-13 movie but it was actu­ally the fans that voted to have Todd killed back in the ‘80s when DC gave them the choice. Bat­man has lit­tle time to grieve as a new vig­i­lante arises in Gotham; one with a name he is already too famil­iar with — Red Hood. The big prob­lem is that Red Hood is ready and will­ing to cross the line that Bat­man never will. Any­one that has kept up with the last few DC ani­mated movies knows that these sto­ries have been enjoy­able and well writ­ten. I look for­ward to this one espe­cially after hear­ing about the cast: Bruce Green­wood is Bat­man, Jensen Ack­les is Red Hood, and none other than Neil Patrick Har­ris will voice the fea­ture film debut of Nightwing! Looks to be a good sum­mer this year in and out of the­atres. I’ll leave you with the fol­low­ing quote by Bat­man on the Joker:

“All I’ve ever wanted to do was kill him…A day doesn’t go by where I don’t think about sub­ject­ing him to every hor­ren­dous tor­ture he’s dealt out to oth­ers and then.…end him.”

Wow.

Sources: www.batmanredhood.com and www.imdb.com for voice tal­ent (Andrea Romano is the voice director)