Spider-Pig.

Rating: 7/10 (4 August 2007)

I was wondering why this movie also has it's groups of nay-sayers and bashers. Maybe it was because the humor was too vile, but it couldn't be called lesser than such in the series.

I liked the father-son tension between Bart and Homer and how Bart did sink so low as to turn to Flanders.

I also liked Hans Zimmer's score, I was sure I knew the film was scored by someone I knew and in some of it's nail-biting moments, you know the music is done by one of today's top thriller movie composers. Though let's not forget about his syrrupy melody in Brooks's AS GOOD AS IT GETS.

Far from being something that's subliminally preachy in tone, the film's own cynicism overrides it, I guess we can interpret it as something that just wants to depict the lunacy and impulsiveness of Uncle Sam.

It's not as impressive as I expected to be but it has enough laughs that if you don't catch it in theatres, it's worth a rental on a rainy day at least.
3/5.