Bluray Disc The Simpsons had already ruled TV land for many years by the time they finally attempted to conquer the movie world as well. It was never any big secret that a Simpsons movie was in the works: Fox registered the domain name “Simpsonsmovie.com” in 1997, a full nine years before the film was finally greenlighted. When creator/producer Matt Groening’s creation finally made it to the big screen in 2007, it only turned out to be the biggest hit of the summer, raking in over $100 million gross in box-office receipts in its first week, before heading on to do over $500 million worldwide, proving that the best joke in the movie was actually played on the audience: “Why pay for something when you can see it for free?” asks Homer at the movie’s start. Naturally, all the trouble starts with him. When he adopts a pig (“Sir Oinks-A-Lot”) destined for Krusty’s slaughterhouse, it triggers an environmental catastrophe, forcing the government to seal Springfield into a dome and destroy the city. While the family manages to escape and flee to Alaska, they eventually decide to return and help save the city in more-or-less classic Simpson fashion. As Homer’s joke about the audience shows, Groening and producer Al Jean are keenly aware that their franchise is first and foremost a TV show. Maybe a little too aware, as the movie fails to ever rise above anything more than an extended episode, and not even one of its best episodes at that. True, there are plenty of good jokes; the animation has been kicked up a notch to be particularly sharp and detailed; and there are some truly memorable moments such as Bart’s nude skateboard ride and the “Spider-Pig” song. But when the film finally materialized, the payoff for long years of anticipation turned out to be small as the movie failed to live up to its potential; it’s amusing but not truly funny. The Simpsons Movie leaves the impression that maybe the show’s writers and producers had already spent their best ideas on the best years of the TV show. Had it been made years earlier… well, we can only wonder what could have been. –Daniel Vancini
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March 5, 2010
#1
Wow, could a show possibly be on more borrowed time life support? It’s funny that SOOOOOO many people on here say that this film should have come out ten years ago, when it actually would have mattered and could have possibly been funny, because I was thinking the exact same thing! What does that tell you? People have too much emotional attachment to the show to admit that this film is awful. They mindrape themselves into thinking anything and everything with the Simpsons’ faces plastered on it is good, much like female fans of Johnny Depp do. If the film was 90 minutes of the Simpsons sitting on the couch and blinking their eyes, they would say “oMg BeSt MoViE eVeR!”. How pathetic! Yes, it’s been said already many times, but I’m thinking it so I’m saying it; it is straight up a 90 minute episode of the godawful past 11 seasons. Cheap and forced jokes, bowel movement references, lots of obnoxious loud noises, and just plain lame, unfunny nonsense. Topical humor that will be outdated in a few short years, pointless celebrity cameos and references, and anything else catering to the modern pulse. Too bad the generation after us won’t relate to any of the humor so that damns the film into not being timeless at all! Hmm, how many borrowed clichés from the show did we see? Marge threatening to leave Homer, Springfield on the brink of disaster, an angry mob, the Simpsons on the run, Homer falling in love with something not human, discord between Bart and Homer, Lisa falling for a boy… I doubt that’s all! Desperation has replaced, dignity, guys. Force yourself to like this all you want, you’re just embarrassing yourselves! Another poster referred to the type of people who put everything else on hold (like cutting their plans short) on Sundays to watch the horrible new episodes of the show as “Simpsons zombies”. I’ll take it a step further and say “Simpsons martyrs”, as the word martyr is more jarring to Western culture with this so-called “war on terror” (which I happen to call “war on anything non-Western”, message me if you’d like me to elablorate). Seriously, why not martyr yourselves for a cause more worthwhile, like say stopping the clubbing of baby seals or the shoddiness of Jaguar since Ford took over?
March 5, 2010
#2
This is the worst movie ever. Badly drawn and filmed. Since Everyone seems to like this movie, I can only conclude that there is no intelligent life on Earth anymore.
March 5, 2010
#3
Ok, let’s face it; the show is dying, and it should have been canceled 3 or 4 years ago!! However, this does not mean that the movie is immediately terrible. It’s a great rent, but I don’t think it’s a buy.
March 5, 2010
#4
Sure, there were parts of this film that were funny. But never did it ever reach any of the heights of even the most unfunny of Simpsons episodes. It made me laugh, but only on the inside, and they were just little, stupid chuckles that were pretty infrequent. The movie was flat, it felt like one season finale stretched over an hour and a half, it wasn’t fast paced enough like the show is, and the only entertaining part was Bart’s nude skateboarding through Springfield. But that is the kind of stuff that’s really the problem, because in the show, beyond the fact that I would find that sort of thing really funny, there would always be an equally great counter joke or punchline that would be the point of the scenes. So there are plenty of fun scenes in this movie, but there are no punchlines, no bizarre moral family lessons. Just boring boring boring. This is nothing special, but it should have been. It’s the Simpsons for crying out loud. They’ve been around almost as long as I’ve been alive(I’m 23). The writers failed. The direction was off. The animation looked beautiful but it meant absolutely nothing in the face of how below average the overall film was. I will not be buying this on DVD or hopefully ever watching it again.
March 5, 2010
#5
Towards the end of the movie they use the word G D….taken Gods name in vien.