The Simpsons: The Movie
5/09/2007The Tags: Simpsons
First off, “Homer must save the world from a catastrophe he himself created” is wildly in-accurate. While on par with a major motion picture that isn’t based on a television show, The Simpsons: The Movie failed in only one aspect: it bought into the cheesy ending that American film mostly leans towards in the latter part of the 90’s.
There were times when I didn’t feel like I was watching something that was born on the Tracy Ulman show – more like something that was hatched out of years of carefully planned out-takes and gags, and only a few times did I feel like they were “upping the ante” on a few of the jokes to keep a step ahead of Family Guy.
Memorable moments would be the nude skateboarding through Springfield (a wonderful montage of Bart skateboarding through the streets of Springfield with Austin Poweresque ways of hiding his … well, his parts. Up until the last part of the montage that is, when he actually does wind up flashing the audience for a few short moments. Comically briefed and very well timed nudity can always be funny.) Others include a meeting with Mr. Burns (Apoo asks him to “look within his heart and he’ll find the answer” with Smithers behind Burns’ waving his arms.) and of course Homer hanging over the angry crowd, which reminded me of the Saddam Hussein statues being pulled over by rope.
I have to admit something. I was a Simpsons fan. Back in the day when the parents were up in arms about what their children were watching, The Simpsons made my parents list (as did it make the lists of countless other parents of my friends). As the years progressed, I grew more attached to the show until, well. It just lost its edge for me.
Family Guy replaced The Simpsons for me – and no matter how annoying the feud between Family Guy and The Simpsons got – I stuck with FG and didn’t watch The Simpsons again (except, of course, in syndication). I felt like I had seen everything and there were no more jokes to tell. I mean, after being on for so long, they’ve pretty much done just about every joke there is to do in regards to that line of entertainment, right?
I was wrong. This movie proved that. Rough in a few spots, yes. However, there is so much positive to this movie that I can’t say it was a horrible viewing experience. Quite the opposite – I loved this movie. (There was a moment that Fox poked fun at itself, which is something they’ve grown quite good at doing over this past half decade or so.)
Bottom line – Simpsons fan or not, this movie will make you laugh. Will it make me run out and buy all the old seasons of the Simpsons and crack out on it? Hell no! Did it make me believe that the Simpsons: The Movie was a better time investment than the FG movie? Not really.
Did it give me a solid viewing experience leaving me pleasantly surprised? It sure did.
Once again – I loved this movie.
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