The Simpsons Movie
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Director: David Silverman
Voices: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden and Albert Brooks
Duration: 87 minutes
Year: 2007
American’s longest-running animated comedy featuring a dysfunctional family continues to delight and entertain a generation of fans for the last 18 years and with the film version based on The Simpsons, you would expect the magical formula of providing witty jokes and visual gags would work on the big screen.
Unfortunately, The Simpsons Movie provides little joy which is disheartening compared to the sublime half-hour show on Springfield. It seems the team of writers were having difficulty on how to adapt the popular cartoon series into a feature-length picture, as every pop-culture references and situations have been done before… After all, why would you buy a ticket when you can watch it on television?
The lack of jokes hits you hard. It’s unbelievable to discover that the movie is more like a mediocre episode from the current season, only this time it is stretched over eighty minutes… And it certainly doesn’t help that some of the inhabitants of Springfield have only very brief cameos including Monty Burns.
Speaking of characters, Homer J Simpson never reaches his true absurdist extremes you come to expect. Rebel Bart Simpson is lost in a dull storyline of being neglected by his father’s love and turns to Ned Flanders for a sense of well being… Lisa falls in love with a random Irish boy. As for Marge, she continues to despair over her husband’s antics while Maggie… well, she does say her first words.
Don’t get me wrong, the movie is still entertaining and the quality of the animation is more advanced over the cartoon show, but you can’t help but feel a little under whelmed. It still has it charms and Homer continues to make you laugh at his stupidity, but by ‘Simpsons’-standards it’s just not good enough.
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flo says:
I think I see what you mean , not half bad but yet disappointing . With such a great genious serie, it’s hard to keep it top best all the time I guess and when you see a few absolutly genious epizodes and then fall on just an ok funny one, you tempt to be disapointed .
Trouble is it seems like they not only stretched it a bit boringly but softened it as well ?
It would be hard to stand to me indeed. :/
Still, what you say makes me willing to see it ^^
Aug 03, 2007, 11:04 amAs you say it still is entertaining, and because seing Lisa falling in love with an Irish dude would worth it ; )
DamionKutaeff says:
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
Aug 03, 2007, 6:11 pmand wish to assit as far as possible.