Video: Neil Patrick Harris introduces the first trailer to next summer’s 3-D “Smurfs” movie

Neil Patrick Harris does not play a Smurf, that’s the first thing you need to know. He plays a human in the Smurfs movie currently filming in New York City.

This trailer that he introduces provides a glimpse as to what the modern-day boys in blue will look like as computer-animated beings.

But you won’t be able to see the movie until August 3 — 2011!!!

I confess to never being interested in the whole Smurfs thing but if NPH is involved, I’ll check it out. Whether it’s How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, The Tonys, The Emmys or an appearance on Regis & Kelly, he never really lets us down.