The Simpsons Movie

[Ryan Scott]

I know it's not out until Friday, but is anyone else totally excited for this movie? Anyone else totally afraid of being really let down by this movie?

Groening always said they wouldn't do a movie because they couldn't sustain a solid script for two hours. Do you think they've finally done it or are they in it for the money?

[Brad Mercer]

My family is eagerly awaiting it. My first feeling was that I didn't see why it would be different than just watching 4 consecutive episodes of the TV show.

Then I read an article this week that they go through each joke in the TV show a hundred times and if it's not still funny they scrap it. They do that so the show will remain perennially popular in re-runs, which they say is where the real money is in TV. For the movie, he said they went through each joke 500 or 1000 times, and if it's not still funny to them after, like 350 times, it gets scrapped and they find another one.

So the general idea is they intend it to be higher quality, more funny and more durable than a TV episode. So I'm up for it now.

Brad

[Gina Stevenson]

Do I dare admit i finally began watching them sometimes after they were in reruns, when I'd not watched them at all when new long ago? :basic05

[Ryan Scott]

I just got back from the midnight showing here. Matt Groening said he'd never make this movie because they couldn't sustain the quality for an hour and a half. He was right, but the first 40 minutes were well worth what came after. The beginning of this movie was possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen. They tried to throw a plot in there somewhere and kind of lost the momentum by the end, but a valiant effort and certainly not a disappointment.

[Brad Mercer]

I watched it last night with my sons. If you like the Simpsons, it was fun, but I'm not sure it was a lot funnier to me than just watching three consecutive episodes of the TV show. Of course, that's plenty funny. My sons did sing the entire Spiderpig song all the way home, though. They thought that was just unbearably hysterical. I thought that and the scene where, in a crisis, all the people in Moe's Tavern rush to church and all the people in church rush to Moe's were both pretty funny.

I enjoyed the whole thing, but I probably could have waited for the DVD. I tend to be inclined these days to save my cinema money for the blockbuster special effects movies that really need to be seen on a big screen with big, chest rattling sound systems, and wait for the DVD on everything else.

Brad

I just got back from the midnight showing here. Matt Groening said he'd never make this movie because they couldn't sustain the quality for an hour and a half. He was right, but the first 40 minutes were well worth what came after. The beginning of this movie was possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen. They tried to throw a plot in there somewhere and kind of lost the momentum by the end, but a valiant effort and certainly not a disappointment.

[Ryan Scott]

We can see movies here for $5-6. Blockbuster charges $4.59 to rent the same thing. My TV isn't that big.

[Rosalie Ross]

Hi!! Personally i never enjoyed some of the language on the tv version of the simpsons. Tell me, is the movie like that too? Just wondering. :fav16

[Rosalie Ross]

Okey..it is not out yet!! Do I stand corrected? :fav16

[Ryan Scott]

It came out on Friday the 27th. I saw it at 11:59pm on Thursday. It's about the same as an episode of the television show, perhaps they go a little farther because of the PG-13 rating. If you're offended by the show, I'd say stay away.

[Billy Cox]

I know it's not out until Friday, but is anyone else totally excited for this movie? Anyone else totally afraid of being really let down by this movie?

Groening always said they wouldn't do a movie because they couldn't sustain a solid script for two hours. Do you think they've finally done it or are they in it for the money?

Some parts of the movie were edgier than the TV show just because the boundaries within a PG-13 rating were wider. I could have done without the glimpse of Bart's 'doodle', but I found it humorous.

I was not disappointed with the movie. One of the perennial themes throughout the history of 'The Simpsons' is the family somehow staying together despite the most bizarre unimaginable screw up that Homer gets himself into. Nearly getting all of Springfield destroyed is arguably the worst thing that Homer has ever done.

The most interesting thing about the movie was the exploration of Bart's longing to have a 'normal' father like Ned Flanders.

Maggie's first word was also humorous.

[Dee Smith]

Spiderpig rules.