10 Movies In 2017 That Should Have Flopped (But Didn't)

6. Smurfs: The Lost Village

Box Office: $197.2 million

After 2013's live-action-animation hybrid film The Smurfs 2 made "only" $347.5 million worldwide compared to the original's ludicrous $563.7 million, Columbia Pictures decided to cancel a third movie and instead reboot the franchise as a fully animated outing.

The general audience apathy for a property as quaint as The Smurfs, combined with the fact that box office smash hit The Boss Baby was released just a few days before it, made Smurfs: The Lost Village seem destined to bomb hard with audiences.

As it turned out, the film having a budget almost half that of its predecessors (a modest $60 million) helped a lot, and the film easily tripled its price tag.

Though Columbia was probably hoping for a stronger performance with the snazzy new reboot treatment, it's not a bad result at all for a mid-budget animation competing with one of the year's most successful animated films (The Boss Baby ended up grossing just shy of $500 million).