In Defense!

Rating: 9/10 (27 July 2007)

I won't bore you with plot twists, who dies, was the plot driven by a higher, more meaningful interest. I'm here to defend the movie against the Simpson-freaks (with all due respect and admiration) who WILL bash this movie. I saw this movie at the midnight showing last night. I am a Simpson fan who agrees that the show has dropped in quality ever so slightly in the last 10 years. This movie is also not as good as my imagined built-up-over-18-years 1.5 hours of orgasmic laughter I unreasonably expected. Having said that they didn't wreck the franchise. It was funny. It was really funny. The Homer/Marge love scene is a classic right up there with some of the best scenes ever of the show. The first 10 minutes of the movie were some of the best 10 minutes ever put together. Where the movie lost me - and I understand the reasons - was that it had to provide continuity of plot. To do that there had to be entire scenes that weren't even funny. I expected to urinate myself with laughter for 1.5 hours, but instead there were lulls as long as 10-15 minutes that were not funny at all to simply advance the plot. That was a disappointment. I also was a little disappointed that the purpose of the entire Simpsons empire is to entertain and subvert. Entertain, we got. Subvert, we could have used more of, especially in today's America and world. I gave the movie a 9. Stick around for the credits! Some good gags.