Do you remember the Smurfs? Those little blue creatures that festooned comics and televisions way back in the 80s? Well, now they're staging a comeback on our cinema screens, hence the need for the ubiquitous licensed tie-in – The Smurfs Dance Party. Ubisoft has taken the mega-successful Just Dance formula and reskinned it – blue-skinned, if you will – with familiar characters, like Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Clumsy Smurf and Gargamel. Now you can do a choreographed bop in your living room to a mixture of popular songs like "Walk This Way" and "One of the Boys", and then throw in such classics as "Who Let the Smurfs Out?", "Mr Smurftastic" and, my personal favourite, "We Like to Smurf It".
To this jaded reviewer, playing the game was like drinking a bottle of vodka whilst spinning in a tumble dryer. Total Smurfing bedlam, in other words. But kids from the ages of three and up are going to absolutely love it, and that's the only thing that counts here. They can start a Blue Man Group of their very own, and all you have to do is shut the door, insert some earplugs, and go back to doing the crossword.
