The Exciting Critique – The Simpsons Film
Those yellow, animated phenomenons have finally made their way to the big screen and it only took eighteen years. So does the animated movie live up to the hilarity of the tv show? Stay with me to see – doh!
The city of Springfield’s lake is overly polluted and socially conscious Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) rallies the town to clean it up. Her dad Homer (Dan Castellaneta) saves a pig from being slaughtered after it is used as a prop in a Krusty the Clown commercial and actually starts to treat it like the son he always wanted.
This doesn’t set well with Bart (Nancy Cartwright) who finds that Mr. Flanders (Harry Shearer) is really a more caring father than his pig loving one. Homer’s new oinking child does what pig’s do and Homer puts the results in a huge silo inside the backyard (well, Homer did put a bit of himself into the job). His wife Marge (Julie Kavner) tells him to eliminate the silo of pig waste.
Homer totally does, of course, by dumping it on Lake Springfield. This infusion of pollution causes the Environmental protection agency to become informed on the situation. They react in their typical restrained manner – the director Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks) orders a huge glass dome cover the community.
The Simpsons ultimately find themselves outside the dome and Homer decides to take off rather than help his neighbors (especially given that they formed an angry mob against him when they found out that it was his silo that pushed the lake beyond the limit). He takes the family to Alaska and start over again, but the rest of the family thinks they should return and save Springfield.
The Simpsons have already been a tv hit since they started airing in 1989. There’s been rumors that creator Matt Groening should bring his jaundiced creations to the big screen. He has seemingly been happy on television nonetheless it has finally come to pass and the results are hilarious.
The movie does play just like a bigger and extended episode of the television show. It has some hilarious commentary on society as well as just outright wacky comedy. One bit of commentary has the church folk running to Moe’s bar and the bar patrons running to church as the giant dome of doom is placed over the community.
We likewise have an extended Bart dare as he skateboards in the buff down to the Krusty Burger. As well as the “Spider Pig” song that my kids would sing during the theatrical trailer.
Where this disc lets down a little is not in the content of the motion picture but in the special feature department. It feels really rather light and you keep imagining that a far more expansive special edition will be in the works somewhere down the line – doh!.
The Simpsons is offered in anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) which is enhanced for 16×9 televisions. A fullscreen version can be obtained separately. Special features include two commentary tracks.
The first one features writer/creator Matt Groening, writer/producer James L. Brooks, writer/producer Al Jean, writer/producer Mike Scully, director David Silverman, Yeardley Smith, and Dan Castellaneta, and the second one includes director Silverman, and sequence directors Mike B. Anderson, Steven Dean Moore and Rich Moore.
You will find 5 minutes of deleted scenes introduced by Al Jean. The “Special Stuff” section has 3 minutes of Simpsons appearances on the Tonight Show, American Idol, and a parody of the “Let’s all go to the Lobby” concession stand song. That is it. Seems pretty light to me.
The movie is humorous, however the extra features feel like a bit of a letdown as far as deleted scenes go, the commentaries are top notch. It’s well worth it for the movie. I must knock it down a bit because it could have been a larger set (and i suppose will probably be somewhere down the road).
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October 5, 2010 | Posted by Norberto Randolph
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