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Post by cadpig10123 on Jul 29, 2007 17:12:45 GMT -5
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Post by Nuke on Jul 29, 2007 18:40:34 GMT -5
i saw it just 30 minutes ago in a United Artist theater
i have to say it's not their best work
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Post by cadpig10123 on Jul 29, 2007 18:46:12 GMT -5
it was just like an ep except it was an hour
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Post by Nuke on Jul 29, 2007 18:54:09 GMT -5
yeah...no big changes
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Post by cadpig10123 on Jul 29, 2007 22:33:27 GMT -5
yeah homer ruining springfield again
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Post by Nuke on Jul 29, 2007 22:45:44 GMT -5
no just didnt feel like a movie
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Post by Trey_Vore on Aug 3, 2007 16:59:48 GMT -5
Here's my review on the movie that I just wrote:
"The Simpsons Movie"-When Homer saves a pig from getting killed for Krusty burgers, he ends up polluting the lake with pig manure and the government encases Springfield in a giant glass dome.
I will say that this movie came in at a good time. 2007 is shaping up to be a great year for cinema. After 2005 and 2006, where the summer just had a bunch of films that were either forgettable or just not worth it, 2007 had many crowd-pleasers. I've liked just about everything so far: "Spider-Man 3", "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", "Live Free or Die Hard", "Transformers", "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry", and now "The Simpsons Movie" I all enjoyed.
But, here's my thoughts on "The Simpsons Movie".
This movie had a lot of moments that I thought were very funny and made up for some of the more lackluster episodes that the show saw since the unlucky season (Season 13, 2001-2002). Some of my favorite parts included Homer singing the "Spider-Pig" song, Bart skateboarding naked as part of Homer's dare, the part involving Bart and Homer re-shingling the roof, Bart's jab at Mickey Mouse, the "Grand Theft Walrus" video game and the joke on "Happy Feet", the "advertisement" mid-film, Homer literally getting stuck between a rock and a hard place and the "To be continued...immediately" visual joke. I liked how a good amount of characters got to appear in small parts, a veteran Simpsons watcher will find (almost) everyone here (some lesser characters like Chester J. Lampwick appear in the mob sequence, I liked the synergy). Of course characters like Dr. Marvin Monroe, Bleeding Gums Murphy, Lunch Lady Doris, Maude Flanders, Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz won't appear unless I missed something, but that is for obvious reasons.
Although the film lists the next consecutive year (2008), I am happy the movie doesn't try to date itself. As the movie's production notes list, the decision to make Arnold Schwarzenegger the U.S. President, impossible as it may sound, is likely a smart choice. As the writers suggest, they went against the film having George W. Bush the president as in two years, the film would already be dated. And I was happy the film had some closure, unlike some current episodes where the ending is more than a little abrupt.
And of course, Julie Kavner gave some of her best voice work in the sequence where she tells Homer, on the videotape, she took the kids back to Springfield to try to save the town and she announces that she's taped over the wedding video.
Stuff that I didn't like: early in the film, it starts with an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon-turned-movie and Homer then tells the audience that we should all feel like suckers for paying to see something theatrically when we can already see it on TV. It might be an appropriate metaphor, because basically the film has a plot that could just as easily have worked as a half-hour long episode. The film acts more as a tribute to the series than an attempt to make it feel more like it needed to be a film (much like how "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" was back in 1999). The raunchiest "new" material was a shot of Bart's schlong and Homer flipping two birds at once, but that was it.
Other parts were left open-ie. We don't know what happened to Homer's pig when they become pariahs-and the movie's villain, a government agent who cons President Schwarzenegger into sealing the town in a thick glass dome, doesn't directly oppose the family until the end (the villain tends oppose the protagonist(s) throughout the movie) and in the near end, he is dealt with quickly.
Over the course of a film, they can have more than one protagonist, but I would say that Homer is meant to be the story's main hero. He gets a motivation to want to save Springfield, as Marge tends to be the more reasonable parent and is known to want to do the right thing. He also has a motivation to want to be a supportive member of the family, as Bart starts to think Ned Flanders might be a more caring father figure. But while Bart and Marge are given strong motivations to want to save Springfield, Lisa's part in the story feels very superfluous. Her subplot involving her meeting a boy she likes felt totally irrelevant to the plot. He added nothing memorable to the movie and I don't count on him becoming a mainstream character. With some adjustments, I think it would have been fine if they didn't include this plot point. If they were to involve it somehow, make it relate to the main plot. I mean, make the kid the agent's son or something and make him manipulate Homer into polluting the lake with the pig crap silo and then he can radio back to Dad for his mission being accomplished. With the Lisa subplot, it feels like it was thrown in just to give Lisa something to do, because without it, she would be dead weight on the film's budget otherwise.
Out of five stars, I give the movie four. With its inevitable success, there will be at least two more sequels. I am happy the film will succeed as it will prove that an animated film does not need to be digitally animated to be a success, but I hope for the next film, it will feel more like it truly needed to be a movie rather than an extended episode of the show. Was the movie worth seeing? Of course. Will I buy it once it is out on video? Yes. Was it perfect? No. But I do recommend seeing it.
"Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing, from a web? No he can't, 'cause he's a pig. Look out; he is the Spider-Pig!" --Sounds like a new "Tick" to me!, "The Simpsons Movie"
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