From 1982, the year I was born, comes this little gem starring everybody's favorite blue creatures and... Satan. You think I'm kidding, but the villain in this story is Satan. They don't come out and say it, but it's pretty clear.
Three things are happening:
1. The smurfs are getting ready for their Christmas celebration.
2. Gargamel is complaining about Christmas and how he hates the smurfs. What is his deal with them? Does he just hate them because they are there? I never understood.
3. Two kids are riding a sleigh with their grandfather, on their way to visit their uncle, when their sleigh is flipped by an encounter with some unseen animal.
From there, these events converge as the kids knock on Gargamel's door for help and tell him that their grandfather is unconscious in the snow. Gargamel slams the door in their faces, because he is a jerk. Meanwhile, the kids' uncle has realized that they should have arrived by now, so he sends out a search party.
Gargamel is still whining when the mysterious dude who is totally Satan shows up at Gargamel's door. He offers to give Gargamel the power to destroy the smurfs if Gargamel kidnaps the children for him. His reason is that the kids' uncle does too much good, and gets in the way of his work. See what I mean?
The children are singing, and the smurfs hear them and rush to their aid. Papa Smurf dispatches the others to find the sleigh, which they do, and the uncle has left a note on it saying that grandpa is okay.
For some reason, the children think Papa Smurf is Santa. They may both wear red and have white beards, but Santa has never been described as tiny and blue. The smurfs all sing a song that says "Goodness makes the badness go away."
Gargamel appears and grabs the children. Poor Azrael is trailing after him through the snow. The smurfs follow and are understandably disturbed to hear that Satan is giving Gargamel the means to destroy the smurf village. Which apparently, based on Gargamel's subsequent actions, involve standing outside the mushroom houses taunting the smurfs, who aren't even home. Oh, ok, he says some words to make the mushrooms shrivel up. Or something.
Gargamel then tries to tell the uncle that the children have been kidnapped so he can collect a reward. Satan is none too pleased to hear this. So he makes a bunch of snakes appear. Yeah, that happened. The smurfs are so freaked out that they're beginning to even worry about Gargamel. Which is fair, because as Gargamel is trying to excuse himself, Satan says, "Someone as nasty as you is always of use to me in my work. Therefore, you'll accompany me and the children on THE FINAL JOURNEY." When the children ask where they are going, he says, "Home. MY HOME" and a ring of fire appears around all of them. SEE?
The smurfs are still close by, and as usual, Papa Smurf knows just what to do. He gets the smurfs to sing their song as loud as they can, because the power of goodness really will make the badness go away. He yells to the kids to join in, and they do, which seems to make the fire go down some. But what really does the trick is when Gargamel joins in. The fire disappears, and so does Satan. And at that exact moment, the uncle and grandfather appear. Gargamel is about to collect his reward when the children tell the uncle that he was mean to them. But then they say not to hurt him, because it's Christmas. Sadly, it does not seem that Gargamel's heart has grown three sizes this day. He runs off, still complaining about things being unfair or something.
Smurf village is still looking sparse, until suddenly it isn't, because it's a Christmas miracle, I guess. And that's pretty much that.
Visuals: 2 out of 5
Spirit: 2 out of 5
Nostalgia: 3 out of 5
Humor: 2 out of 5
Music: 1 out of 5
Overall: 2 out of 5
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