The Simpsons - Christmas 2
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Movie Reviews of The Simpsons - Christmas 2
Movie Review: the simpsons christmas 2
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this dvd. The reason why I gave it a 4 is because in tis the 15th season, right at the end of act 2 my dvd skips to the end credits. Has any one else seen this problem?Movie Review: Better than "Gone Wild," but still pointless
Summary: 2 Stars
I sure hope they change the name of the disc, because 'Christmas 2' just doesn't sound interesting.
Anyway, once again, this is FOX's attempt to suck more money from Simpsons fans while they're waiting for the box sets to release. Also, only two of the four episodes on the set are Christmas episode. So with that, this set's stars deplete. But, these episodes aren't as bad as the ones picked for "Simpsons Gone Wild," so, I'll cut it some slack and give it two stars. The episodes? Well, break it down:
Homer vs. Dignity (Season 12):
Kwik Synopsis: In money troubles, once again, Homer becomes Mr. Burns' "prank monkey" to get some extra cash.
This episode is pretty bad. The plot alone is pretty farfetched and, while Burns provides a few laughs, wasn't that funny. There was a "sub-plot" about Smithers acting in a Malibu Stacey-themed musical. THAT would have been great to see more than a one-minute scene of. But instead, we have Homer get raped by a panda. You heard me. A panda has his way with him. I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. I guess this episode was picked because the Thanksgiving Day parade at the end had the Santa float, in which Burns throws fish guts at everyone. But still, "Marge Be Not Proud" was an amazing Xmas episode. Why isn't that on this disc?
Skinner's Sense of Snow (Season 12)
Kwik Synopsis: The kids are snowed in the school right before winter break, and they turn on Skinner.
Probably the best episode of the disc. There's a lot of good jokes in this episode, although it takes a hit when Homer comes in. He takes a hunk out of Ned's roof to make a snow plow. The two drive to rescue the kids, but hit an fire hydrant, and the water freezes up instantly, and Homer hallucinates about exotic dancers and... it was all just really weird. But it was still a good Xmas episode. Good work everyone.
'Tis the Fifteenth Season (Season 15)
Kwik Synopsis: Homer tries to do good this Xmas, and ends up competing with Flanders as the nice guy.
A nice Xmas episode. There is a lot of funny stuff in this episode, but it's sort of pointless, as you know Homer will go back to being his lazy selfish self in the next episode.
Dude, Where's My Ranch? (Season 14)
Kwik Synopsis: The family goes to a dude ranch to escape a song Homer wrote that was playing ad nauseum on the radio. There, Lisa falls in love with a teenager.
Atrocious. The first act was alright. But once they got to the ranch, the humor crashlanded. Lisa is in love with someone 5 years older than her, then ends up endangering his sister's life thinking she's his girlfriend. Have we forgotten that she's 8? Out-of-character, much? Yes! And Homer and Bart try to stop some beavers from building a dam, I dunno. Completely unusual and crazy and bad episode. And what exactly does this have to do with Christmas?
This will most likely have a featurette, but I don't know what character it'll be on.
All and all, you've got two good episode, an OK episode, and a bad episode. So altogether, you have an average set of episodes, roughly a 2 1/2 stars. But you can't do halves, but it wouldn't matter, because it loses it with the complete pointlessness of this set's production. Only for an completist Simpsons fan.
Movie Review: Pointless
Summary: 2 Stars
Wow, how would you like to own a DVD of 4 Simpsons Xmas episodes? Even though half of said episodes are utterly NON-Xmas. Even the title of this DVD is wrong as the first was called Christmas with the Simpsons.
Included on this DVD is Homer vs. Dignity, Skinner's Sense of Snow, Dude Where's My Ranch? and 'Tis the 15th Season. None of these are from the old seasons, so they are all new to DVD. But their not from the best years either. They're the cynical, classless episodes from recent seasons.
Yes, they are funny. But the laughs are incredibly cheap and their targets too easy to hit. For the price, it's hard to argue NOT getting for a single watch on Xmas eve (despite the fact only 2 episodes are about Xmas), but for misers I'd wait for the full complete box sets of these later seasons. Crap as they may be.
The DVD presents all shows in 1.33:1 fullscreen, as drawn with Dolby 2.0 surround. One brief extra, an animatic, is included.
Movie Review: Why oh why have you forsaken us?
Summary: 1 Stars
Show of hands, how many people want fox to keep churning out these random, pointless, and nauseating so called collections of Simpsons episodes. I am a DIE-HARD Simpsons fan and I have every other season and watch them religiously. However I can't see the logic that Fox is using when cranking these out. They already know that we are going to buy the seasons when they come out, but most, if not all, of us want ONLY the seasons. Now I could see these if they had as many episodes as one of the season dvd's but these are usually only a few and barely enough to even wet the appetite of any Simpson fan. If anything, all Fox is doing is Ticking off a lot of people. Personally I don't see why It is taking so long to churn out these season collections. Look at the Twilight Zone collections that just came out. They have already released 5 sets of them and they were released at once. Come on Fox if they can take films that old and get them on DVD that quick SO CAN YOU!!!
NOTE TO FOX-HURRY UP WITH THE SEASONS.
Movie Review: Love the Simpsons, but this ain't Christmas.
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't get me wrong. These are great episodes to be sure, but why did they put them in a compilation of Christmas episodes. Two of them have virtually nothing to do with Christmas at all. Just because you set a scene in the winter time does not make it a Christmas episode! The other two mention Christmas only as the jumping off point of their story, but never return to Christmas at all as a topic. No tree, no presents, no Christmas like fiascos. Once again, wonderful episodes, but they don't belong here.