The Smurfs 2

The Smurfs 2 is a 2013 American fantasy comedy film loosely based on The Smurfs comic book series created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo, produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, The Kerner Entertainment Company, and Hemisphere Media Capital, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It serves as the sequel to the 2011 film The Smurfs, as well as the second installment of Sony's Smurfs film series. The film was again directed by Raja Gosnell from a screenplay written by Karey Kirkpatrick and the writing teams of J. David Stem and David N. Weiss, and Jay Scherick and David Ronn, and a story conceived by the latter four. The entire main cast reprised their roles from the first film. New cast members include Christina Ricci and J. B. Smoove as members of the Naughties, Brendan Gleeson as Patrick Winslow's stepfather, and Jacob Tremblay (in his film debut) as Blue Winslow.

The Smurfs 2 was released theatrically on July 31, 2013. Like its predecessor, the film was not well received by critics, and unlike its predecessor, it underperformed at the box office, as it only grossed $347.5 million (compared to the first film's total gross of $563.7 million) against a $105 million budget. It was dedicated to Jonathan Winters, who voiced Papa Smurf in both films and died a few months before the film's release. A sequel, The Smurfs 3, was initially planned for a summer 2015 release, but was cancelled in favor of a fully animated reboot, Smurfs: The Lost Village, which was released on April 7, 2017 and directed by Kelly Asbury, with Sony and Kerner returning to produce the film while having an all new cast (with the exception of Frank Welker as Azrael).