The Simpsons As a Show is Better

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2007)

I am The Simpsons fan since 2002. Ever since i watched the first preview of Simpsons Movie with that Supderman logo, i have been dying to see the movie. Finally on Saturday, i went to see it, and here is what i think of it.
You all know the movie PLOT by now so i won't go into detail with it. The Simpsons movie is well funny, storyline is good and almost every character is seen in the movie (some might not have any dialouge) I have to say i was Let Down by this movie, it just didn't meet my expectations. First of all, the movie was way too short, i don't know why. Due to its short length, many characters are cut-off, and some don't even have screen time they deserve. The movie itself seems to be fast-paced due to lack of time. New character were useless because not enough character development was there. It would have been better to represent classic existing Simpsons characters with more refined role to play, than introducing new love of Lisa.
Another thing is that as the film makers mentioned how hard they had to work to get the right story for Simpsons Movie, i don't think this movie does justice to the story. To me, the movie was more focused on the jokes than keeping the plot going. Also the theme was good, but the lack of time prevented a good point between Bart and Flanders to be discovered by homer deeply. Everything seems to be happeninig so quickly, like Simpson family moving to Alaska, then going back to Springfield, the overall journey went by just with a blink of an eye.
Also less screen time was given to famous landmarks of Springfield such as Moe's Tavern, Nuclear Power Plant. The filmmakers spoiled some BIG jokes that the movie had to offer by showing them in the Simpsons Movie promos, like Bart naked skateboarding scene, Spider-pig.
What has been deleted from the final versing of MOVIE?
Also to keep the movie PG-13, the makers of this movie took some scenes and dialogs out from the final movie which they originally showed at the Comic-Con such as when the mob comes to look for homer, Lenny asked Moe "so who are we going to kill again" and Moe replies "I think people in the front knows" and another scene when mob climbs through ladder in Lisa's room and Homer Hits Lamp,camera, and toilet paper has been cut from the movie which i think was disappointing because it was one of the hilarious scenes in the movie. Another good scene that has been changed is that when Homer goes to dump the Pig-Crap into river, the warning boards were hilarious that were shown at comic con, but in the movie the wording has been changed due to its rating that the movie makers wanted to have. You can see those scene in you-tube when u searched for Simpson movie scene.
Anywaz, back to movie, the animation are good, especially the background is well done and can say is computer animation, the characters are hand drawn, but has been colored by computer so its worth watch in big screen.
After seeing the movie, i truly believe that The Simpsons as a show is much better, after all a show is a show and this is where it all started. If makers of The Simpsons were to do a poll for whether to make a sequel to Simpsons Movie or another new Season, i would prefer a new season because there are thingy that make this show and it can't be done on movies.
Despite the disappointment, i still give this movie 10/10 and can watch it again-again n again, the movie is sure a Must-Go to watch in Theaters, cuz u never know when u will see Homer again on BIG screen.