Crap and something that looks like a cheese doodle...

Rating: 2/10 (30 July 2007)

When a movie that was based entirely on 20 years of television comes to the silver screen, you want to see something that you cannot see on T.V. You want to see more then just the same thing...
(BTW, I have a copy on VHS of the very first Simpson's Episode, The Christmas Episode one that most of the people who watch the Simpsons today have never, and probably will ever see...Basically saying, I am not just some guy who just discovered the Simpsons, I grew up with it) Essentially this movie was exactly what it said it was in the very beginning and we are total fools for paying for something that we can see on television for free...
There was nothing special about this. There was nothing that you couldn't see on television.
I think the main flaw with this movie was that instead of making a full length movie (which time wise it was), was that they took a half hour episode, and stretched it out filling in the gaps with something that was supposed to humor...
The thing that makes show is that it gets to the point. It is a satire first and foremost, with a little bit of slapstick throw in between.
If it is too long, it just gets boring. I mean I totally get the political references, and I get the sight gags. But so what? All they did was act as fillers to make a very short story way to long.
Take the Southpark Movie: Bigger Longer Uncut (now I am not comparing them in humor or style, but merely as a parallel to TV to movie porting...) The creators of Southpark are under certain restrictions, as are the Simpsons creator. What they can show, what they can say etc. Southpark is very much a show designed for older audiences. Much like the Simpsons were in their original incarnation. Dark Humor. The thing is, is that when the Southpark movie was made, the essentially took every little thing that they couldn't do on television, and exploited it on the Big Screen.
"F" this, "F" that, no censorship etc. They really tried to make it over the top. I mean aside whether or not you liked the movie is irrelevant, the point is, is that you got to see lots of stuff that you wouldn't normally see...
Another parallel could be the upcoming "24" movie. Again, the fans of the show want to see 24, but they don't want to see the 24 they see on television. They want to see the 24 to the extreme.
In the end, there are 20 years of Simpsons episodes. That roughly 600 hours (give or take). You could buy the first few years DVD's and get more out of it then this movie gave us.
Thankfully, I didn't pay to see this...