"Once in a Blue Moon'' is a common way of saying
not very often. This phrase is affixed with the movie, Smurfs. I watched it yesterday and found it very inspiring and funny. Even many movie critics shared negative reviews on this movie, still it was such an enjoyable film, because it had such good morals in it and a lot of funny lines quoted by the characters that made you think and laugh
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The Smurfs is based on the comic strip by the Belgian cartoonist, Peyo and released by Columbian Pictures as a CG (Computer Graphics) animated and live action feature movie. The Smurfs are a race of small, magical blue creatures living in a fairytale land. Led by the kind and wise Papa Smurf, they live a happy life hidden in the forest. However, they are constantly harassed by the evil (and incompetent) wizard Gargamel and his cat Azrael. He's eager to capture the Smurfs and use them as a key ingredient in his magical potions.
The Blue Moon Festival takes place at every blue moon, which is when Papa Smurf is able to see into the future to tell what it may hold for his little Smurfs, but Papa Smurf sees a vision of the future that is quite disturbing. The vision begins to play out in real life, as Clumsy Smurf inadvertently leads the evil wizard Gargamel to the smurfs' secret village. He warns Clumsy to stay away from the forest because of Gargamel. Gargamel follows Clumsy and destroys the Smurfs village. Most of the Smurfs manage to run toward a safe hiding place.As they scramble to get away from the bumbling wizard, Clumsy goes the wrong way. Papa, Smurfette, Brainy, Gutsy, and Grouchy follow after him, and they all stumble upon a mysterious portal that are transported into New York City, but Gargamel and his evil cat are close behind.
That is, until they find themselves in the cozy apartment of young married couple Patrick and Grace Winslow. Patrick is a clean cut marketing executive for the New York City based cosmetics company Anjelou, and kind and optimistic Grace is pregnant with their first child.When they find that they have some little blue visitors, Patrick and Grace, well more so Grace, accept the Smurfs and even befriend them. Despite the fact that Patrick's life is turned upside down, the Smurfs inspired him to come up with a "blue moon" motif as part of his company's advertising campaign, which initially was sent by mistake to his employer Odile in place of the intended campaign design, almost causing Patrick to be fired, but was eventually accepted by Odile when she witnessed the moon literally turning blue through a spell cast upon it by Brainy Smurf. He does his best to help them escape Gargamel and get the tools and potions they need to open a portal back home, but in the end, it may be that the smurfs have helped him even more than he helped them. Papa Smurf refers to Patrick as 'Papa to show that he believes Patrick will be just as good a dad as he is.
Relying on the saying, Once in a blue moon: In our lives, we may encounter once in a blue moon some lucks and opportunities. So when you have it, just grab it and never let it go.
