C Minus

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2014)

It's been awhile since I've seen The Simpsons Movie, like 5 years. No doubt, The Simpsons was a great show growing up, that I can't believe is still running for 25 years. The Simpsons used to be my favorite TV show 15 years ago, I don't watch it too often now and I have some of the Halloween episodes on DVD which I got from the Supermarket. However, it seems like almost everybody prefers the older episodes, pre-2000. It just seems like the newer episodes don't have as much appeal as the older episodes. I remember watching a Simpsons YouTube video in it with Justin Bieber from an episode and I saw how the top comment said, "R.I.P. The Simpsons 1989-1998." Yeah, those were the good old episodes, even if you watch the TV show on TV nowadays they don't often times show those episodes on TV anymore. If they did start showing the older episodes on Fox, I'm sure The Simpsons would have more viewers than they do now, so I think Fox should start showing the older episode reruns. We can ask what makes this movie not as good as it could be. Well, they try to be funny as obviously the newer Simpsons episodes try to be funny. But, while the movie might have some funny scenes, it seems like the movie mostly tried to be funny and tried to show slapstick humor that a lot of us probably didn't think was too funny. It seems like the most memorable scene from this movie was when Bart Simpson was skateboarding naked. I felt bad for Bart after that scene seeing his sad face. What made this movie not too good, well there didn't seem to be much characterization in this movie. We didn't seem to see as much of the regular characters as we see on the show. They had brief scenes, but nothing much about them. In the show and especially older episodes they had humor as we got to know basically all the characters in Springfield from a single episode about them. It seems like the whole plot in the movie was how Springfield was covered in a dome because of pollution, and the people in the community tried to get out of the dome and protect their own city from the government, making the government and Arnold Schwarzenegger look like bad guys and you kind of feel bad for the people of Springfield and Homer Simpson even if it was meant for comical purposes rather than serious purposes. What was really good about this movie. Well, I've seen TV shows made into movies and often times the movies don't make it look like an episode from the TV show. Instead, they add things that are quite different from the TV show. An example I'm thinking of is The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie. I remember how while they did use the same characters and tried to have the same kind of plot they had on the TV show for a movie, it was too different from the TV show and seemed to lose it's appeal that way and didn't follow the TV show as much as the Power Ranger World Tour Show did so the World Tour Show was better. So, enough about Power Rangers. The Simpsons Movie looks like it's an episode rather then it's own independent movie. We see the same characters and the characters act the way they do on the show. We see similar scenes and types of humor from the movie as we do on the show. We also see things like a message across the screen as we do on the show making it look like you're watching The Simpsons on Fox. So yeah, it's great that it stays along with the show, not just changing the themes around. However, it could have been better written as I heard that this movie was rewritten so many different times. I don't know what plot could have made it better, but probably one where it's more about the characters and less about what's happening in Springfield. Overall, I'd give this film a 7/10. In school often times 70-79 would be a C. I'd have to give it a 70 where it still passes, but barely. I almost gave it a 6/10, but I think it's fair to give this movie a 7/10, but still a C-.