What a Disappointment!

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2008)

When I heard that Matt Groening was making a Simpsons Movie, I was not happy. I know I have some real Simpson fanatics in my school that went on and on and on and on about each day. You know how trying that is, and to my disbelief, they got tickets to the premiere, oh how wonderful! The trailers failed to turn me on but when the movie actually came out in England, must spirits lifted. The reviewers were more than enthusiastic with the critics. The animation was pretty dam good and the still had the same voiceovers from many a year. I was beginning to look forward, you could say I was actually excited about it (then I mind, I haven't seen the recent episodes and I'm proud I haven't). God, how deceived I was! Maybe I was expecting too much and that how you can put this movie. First off and in reality, although I still love the Simpsons, I think the English media is showing too much attachment to this programme to admit the movie was a disappointment. Picture this, if they were just in a car driving to the Kwick-E-Mart and back in 75 minutes, our good 'ole English press will be saying "Wow! Best Movie Ever!" How sad. Second, the whole movie is just like a long Simpsons episode of recent quality. Too many obvious jokes and jackhammer clichés done to death. I mean, what's happened to Homer? He's not the Homer Simpson I know. He turned into a crude idiot and not the lovable oaf I know him as! Marge is just a nagger, something of Lois Griffin quality. Bart has lost his badassness and his childish remakes are getting old and what the deal with Flanders? Lisa is just a boring geek who's need to get a life and Maggie, well, she's alright! Now where's was the other characters? We needed Barney for his drunkenness, Moe for his crudeness, Patty and Selma for their bitterness and Burns for his meanness. Why couldn't Sideshow Bob be the villain (Mind you, the episodes with Sideshow Bob are getting boring? How much longer does he want to kill Bart while he's coming less of a threat!). The government guys will leave a bad taste in the mouth of American politics. Moe? Was he even in it? And where were the cat and dog? The story was pathetic! Truly pitiful! A dome around Springfield? Come on! The Alaska was boring and really, can they make a better story? The Marge-Homer relationship storyline has been done to death, I can count how many times that storyline has happened. My point is: the movie is just a huge letdown! The Simpsons are not as funny as they were and the outdated jokes do not come in they way of episode. I think Matt Groening should this now because the Simpsons will just be going will just go further down the pile of ratings. And what is the deal with pig? Spider-Pig? Are you having a laugh? Alas, the summer of 2007 is over (for eighteen months now) and I bet me 'ole school classmates were singing that Spider-Pig song to the point of tedium 'till the end of that year, god bless anyone around them! Another thing Matt, I hardly heard anyone laughing in the cinema, a few chuckles but that was it! Nothing significant. Nobody really laughed! Some even groaned! Any jokes were to-and-far between. If you think the Simpsons is not was it was, skip this and watch the seasons 1-9 instead. They're a lot funnier and original than tripe. Over and Out!
P.S. I can't wait to see the new Wallace and Gromit special coming out at Christmas! It's gonna be good.