The Simpsons Movie (Widescreen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Simpsons Movie (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: The Simpsons Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Im a HUGE Simpsons fan, since the first episodes, seasons 4-11 were the best .
The movie is surprisingly good, i laughed a lot in the theather and every time i watch the dvd i laugh again, just like i do in the re-runs. I thought it would be a looong episode, but it turned out better.
The DVD is cool, i loved the menus, the video quality is great. The only thing i dont like is the American Idol extras, im tired of those...
And theres no Making of Documentary...
Everything else is good.
Movie Review: Still the best show on TV
Summary: 5 Stars
The Simpsons was and still is the best show on TV period. Can't wait to see Season 11 and this Simpsons full length movie is awesome, very funny and has the magic of the old classic simpsons.Movie Review: Title: Is it Juvenile...D-OH, YES! Is it beneath a well-adjusted Adult's Mentality...D-OH, YES! Is it lamebrained...D-OH, YES!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Ahhhhh...the Simpsons...I vividly remember watching the series on which this movie's based back when I was just another know-nothing, na?ve and misdirected child/teenager. I used to loyally watch said series and never miss a weekly installment of it; I was what you'd call a "fan," what everyone who subserviently fawns about this movie and series is, too. However, some time after I hit 18 and legally became a man, something correspondingly occurred which instantly curbed my level of interest rightly away from the Simpsons. This "something" is called mental and emotional maturity, a blessing that comes with the onset of adulthood; as I became an adult, I starkly realized the epiphany that the Simpsons appeals to the lowest common denominator of society: immaturity, crudeness, and grossly redundant stupidity.
Frankly, the sickness that explains the worrisome and totally questionable interest of primarily adults in the Simpsons franchise is their monstrous lack of aforementioned adulthood!!!! The adults who still enjoy the Simpsons may want to re-examine their social conscience and take a page from my textbook by realizing that the Simpsons can truly only be enjoyed by kids/teens because at that age, one's brain is still puerile, therefore making it receptive to the low-minded elements of the Simpsons. For adults, I see no justification at all in enjoying the Simpsons, unless they admit to being unsophisticated, lowbrow and generally juvenile.
My thesis (in case you were too unobservant to identify it) is the Simpsons Movie and series are so profanely juvenile that only kids/teens should be watching it, and adults watching it are developmentally stunted. I'll now present concrete, inarguable examples from scenes in the film itself to support my thesis. This is how it's done in the adult's world. This way, you, the adult, Simpsons viewer will be forced to acknowledge how childish you are and forced to face your denial.
The Simpsons Movie wrongs the viewer on three levels: intelligence, decorum and originality, all of which tie into my opening paragraphs. Regarding intelligence, there's only so many times a normal, well-adjusted adult (not a child living in a man's or woman's body!) can take the shortcoming Simpsons jokes about Homer's chronic dumbness. For instance, as in Homer falling through the roof after preparing to hit Bart's fingers after Bart's rolled down the roof and wound up hanging from the gutter. Still, there's the part where Bart childishly fires a BB gun at Homer who's carrying bricks (so Jacka$$-like). Or, how about the eternally annoying line by that nuisance Nelson: "Ha-ha!?" All this is stupid, and if you're an adult and disagree, then you're so sophomoric that it's not even cute anymore!!!!
Regarding decorum, again, there's only so many times any sane, well-adjusted adult (man or woman) should be able to tolerate coarse references that are commonplace in Simpsons land. In example, Bart's caught drinking by Marge while in a motel, and he chugs down the whole bottle while being chased; the bus driver smokes pot from a bong upon thinking the end is near; and the town drunk, Barney, is dumped into the lake along with beer bottles, celebrating the unsophisticated joke that he's so inebriated, he's raiding even a stash of empty beer bottles. One would think that most adults would be able to proverbially sophisticate themselves to a point where lowlife jokes about drunkenness don't seem that sharp or funny anymore.
Regarding non-originality, well-adjusted adults shouldn't accept the redundancy of the characters/plot lines. Cletus being portrayed as a southern-sounding, slack-jawed hick/yokel which blatantly insinuates an attack on conservatives, as Groening glaringly sees red-staters like this; Homer the fata$$ imbecile who always screws up (in the movie's case by dumping toxic waste into the lake); Bart continuously being the troublemaker by committing mischief such as nude skateboarding; and jeering at organized religion (Grampa having a religious experience of ecstasy while at church) are all a derivative and boring rehashing of tangents seen on the TV show years ago. If you're over 18 and still entertained by this, you must have attention deficit disorder or something.
Another, equally indisputable implication against this film that proves my thesis of its profane juvenility is the overkill of unwholesomeness together with obscenities of a grade-school level. For instance, there's many references to slang terms for male genit*ls (wiener and doodle, slang terms for female mammary glands (b*obs), uses of "a$$," the word "cr*p," and even some G*damns just for sport. On the unwholesomeness side, fat kid Ralph is hoisted up a flagpole so we see his bare buttocks, two men kiss before rushing into a hotel room to flagrantly get busy in g*y sex (this occurs when Marge assumes two cops have arrived to catch her), and Homer sophomorically commenting, "More than two shakes and you're playing with yourself (relating to shaking off one's p*nis after urination)."
Bottom line and conclusion: I've now utterly substantiated my thesis that only kids/teens or puerile adults are ones who should naturally get gratification out of the Simpsons. If you're grown-up and defy this fact, you're likely developmentally retarded.
Movie Review: Did we really need it?
Summary: 3 Stars
I've never avidly watched the Simpsons, in any particular way. I've seen quite a few episodes, but I've never been inclined to go and out and buy the boxsets. I hated the animation in the very early seasons, but what do you expect? It's so much better now. Saying that, I do have a favourite episode - Lisa's Wedding. It's been my favourite episode since they had a Simpsons night on TV a few years back. It's quite bad that I can say that a TV animated episode made me cry.
I never got the chance to go to the cinema to see this when it came out, although a couple of people I know went, and absolutely raved about it. It sounded good, and I'd picked it up a couple of times in the shops, but always put it back down again. After seeing the first Family Guy movie, I was very wary, because that was just three episodes stringed together, with obvious 'breaks' where each episode ended. When I got given this for my birthday, I was very surprised, not only had I never mentioned wanting it, but I did want it!
I watched it within a few days of my birthday, and was left feeling empty and disappointed - but I did like the end credits, it was interesting to find out who'd voiced each character, complete with pictures. Pretty much, it was an extended, unfunny episode, with all the could-have-been best bits, been hyped up to the max already. The Spider Pig song, Bart's naked skateboard ride, everyone went on about this as soon as it was released, that by the time I got round to watching it, they bored me.
I just thought that after x amount of years that the Simpsons has been running, the writers could have come up with a better movie and better lines, and better laughs. It wasn't as funny as some of the TV episodes I've seen. It was predictable, there was no laughter from me, and I was bored throughout.
So why am I giving it three stars? Firstly, I do feel some loyalty to the Simpsons. It's always that TV show that you can pick up at any point in the show, and you'll know what's going on. Also, I do feel that I could watch this again at sometime in the future, when I'm bored, and probably enjoy it. Simply because it's the Simpsons. Apart from the fact it's not funny, it's an easy movie to watch, and you don't really need to switch the brain on in order to understand it. (I like those movies.) There's absolutely nothing wrong with this, apart from the unfunniness, it's just an extended episode of the Simpsons. Nothing wrong with that.
Although it wasn't what I was hoping, the Simpsons Movie isn't really a must have if you're not a Simpsons fan, but if you are, add it to your collection.
Movie Review: Why do we want or need a Simpson's movie?
Summary: 1 Stars
It's obvious why we don't need it since the show's been on too long already, and the more important thing that America doesn't seem to understand is, why do you want something mediocre? I can understand fans who have been anticipating this for the years it took to get made, but I think the direction of the show should've been enough indication of how bad this movie would be. So, to let those of you who haven't seen the movie and don't watch the show know, the show is now an unfunny and scattered mess of creativity. There is no unifying vision except for the fact that episodes revolve around the characters we know by heart. The last time I watched a new Simpsons episode I was shocked at how strange and unfunny the content of it was which shocked me because I like strange and absurd humor. This show used to contain all types of it until the last few years of the show. This movie is just like the show except without the unfunny strangeness. Let me make one exception: the time when they go to Alaska is bizarre in a way that could've been funny, by isn't. The rest of the movie is chocked full of jokes that work, have never been funny, or attempts at humor that just aren't successful, like telling a poop joke just for the sake of telling it without regard to the relevance of the story and that's what this is. The good jokes are good, but are stuck in the midst of a mass of other jokes that never were and shouldn't have been used for this film. It makes the whole thing lukewarm and boring. I must say that I have really enjoyed the Simpsons in various times of their existence, the times when they were rude and funny, when they were just dysfunctional and character driven, the times of sharpest wit and genre to the absurd humor. In my mind, the Simpsons were the popular heel of American animation and became the forefront. As a result of this transistion they were forced to grow up and experiment and have now gotten away from what made them unique in any of their phases. They need to give it a rest and let the fans watch their DVD's, or the reruns. This is just sad and I don't see it ever turning around. At least I recognize my disconnect from this incarnation of the Simpsons and the love I had for them in the past.