Smurfs vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6/10 for Smurfs). Smurfs is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 41m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2025). Both are animation, family, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Smurfs
Soul| Smurfs | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Animation, Family, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Chris Miller | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Hannah Waddingham, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Maya Erskine | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Smurfs
When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…