Here's yet another one of Kuni's self-serving topics,
People say he got crazy from the heat of the tropics.
He didn't even take the time, effort or planning to disguise
his agenda, but at least he tried to make elementary rhymes. o_O
So help him know if the movie's a safe bet for a good time
or if he might like people to beat him till he's adyin'.

1. Have you watched the Simpsons Movie?
2. Did you enjoy it? / Do you expect to enjoy it?
3. Do you enjoy the more current seasons of The Simpsons series?

I loved The Simpsons of old, and still enjoy it when I catch reruns on TV. But I absolutely hate the more recent seasons of the series. I'm wondering if I'll like the movie even though I strongly dislike the new The Simpsons. so help a chump out. :smile:

ofcourse, as expected, we can also use this thread to discuss the movie in general. You are free to ignore my three questions, but I will be tempted to abuse mod powers if you do so. :laugh:

disclaimer: that was a joke.

disclaimer: joke's are half meant.

I loved the movie. seemed everyone else in the theater did, too. the medium allowed them to use jokes they wouldn't have been able to do on regular TV.

don't expect to see much of familiar Springfield landmarks, though.

I laughed out loud at several parts of the movie. And damn it if Spider-Pig is not catchy.

Overall, I wasn't blown away, but I was satisfied and left the theater with a grin on my face.

They even used the Spider-pig song for the ending credits, with a choir even. :sweatface:

Personally, the movie was well worth the money spent on it, and I was laughing nearly non-stop. The movie is focused more on Homer rather than the other characters, so if you're not a fan of him, you might not appreciate the movie as much.

1. Watched it
2. Enjoyed it and expected too.
3. Yes I do.

The movie is indeed mostly about Homer. Not all the characters from the series are used, either.

Some characters are just seen, but never play a part in the story. Others have only one line.

Still though, you wouldn't expect EVERY character to be used in EVERY episode of the Simpsons, would you? The series is called "The SIMPSONS," not "All the People of Springfield." It's going to focus mostly on the family with that name in the city of Springfield. X3

My favorite part was when the dancing penguin was shot down. HELL YES! :devil:

The reason why the movie is so good is because it's a full-fledged extension of the TV series. It doesn't try to be something it's not, it sticks with a formula that has worked for the better part of 18 (going on 19) seasons. A similar thing could be said for "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut."

Oh yeah, and I get the feeling that "Spider-Pig" thing, is something we may be referencing for years to come! :tongue:

oh, thanks guys for posting spoilers. :sweatface:

Spoilers? I thought we were very good in not spoiling too much. :sweatface:

you're right. it's probably not too much considering there's more than an hour's worth of comedy. :biggrin:

Is it just me or did the Japanese Billboard outside of the motel they were staying in have ゴジラ (Gojira) on it?

I guess that in my mind this movie was over-hyped because I thought it was quite disappointing. Some of it was good but overall I don't really care if I see it a second time or not. I guess the usual episodes on TV are more satisfying. Oh well.

It was about expectation. Fans wanted more of the same thing but larger when TV shows become movies. Writers want to use the opportunity to take the characters where they've never been before (Alaska... I guess Springfield is not in Alaska... or Hawaii).

Personally, I wanted the movie to feel like the 3 greatest episodes of Simpsons ever, back-to-back-to-back in one giant story. I too was disappointed because there was a lot of downtime trying to show the "human" element of Homer and the rest of the Simpsons family.

It's a cartoon. Forget "humanity". We want anarchy with no repercussions in our cartoons. That's why Tom & Jerry sells to this day. Additionally, we were treated to the "who's who" of the Simpsons world, only for Flanders to play the largest role. Barney was under served, much less, Moe, Mr. Burns, Rev. Lovejoy, Milhouse, Nelson, Apu, Kwik-E-Mart, Smithers etc.

Instead, we had to contend with a new "Irish activists musician who is not related to Bono" love interest for Lisa, President Schwarzenegger (who looks like Rainier Wolfcastle, except without the lovably violent movie he's hocking), and uh... the evil rich mad chairman of the EPA, whatshisface.

The Simpsons universe already has its great share of villains - Burns, Fat Tony, Homer (who is the town's own worst enemy... which is reinforced in the movie), the town's mob mentality (also served, but just as quickly resolved by movie's end).

Otto, Krabappel, Skinner were reduced to mere visual cameos. In fact, I think the show would have been more enjoyable if it actually stayed in Springfield after the Dome, instead of following the Simpsons to Alaska... but hey, the movie isn't called Springfield. After all, it would have been more interesting to see Krabappel & Skinner get married because they think they're all going to die in the dome, and as they are about to have a moment, they are barged in the back by the large line behind them, led by Skinner's mom who is marrying Moleman, Moe and the love-o-matic machine, Nelson and a heavily made-up Milhouse and other such anarchic imagery about the reason to get married is so you don't have to die alone.

Then when the movie ends and they find out they're not going to die, Krabappel and Skinner, just moments before cradled in each others arms, will share an awkward moment, before returning to just friends. Poor Moe though will have lost his love-o-matic to the sea captain (who share a Titanic moment... yaar!)

On the plus side, we know who voices who now. Poor Yardley Smith. She really is so overworked, voicing as many as one character on the show!

I think it was in Reader's Digest years ago that I read she only does one voice because whenever she tries anything else, it sounds like Lisa doing someone else's voice.

Actually, I've heard the Simpsons DVD commentaries (that they have in their season box sets) and Yeardley Smith sounds like Lisa when she talks normally. It's... weird.

The most fun is when Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer or Hank Azaria go on the commentary. The girls who do voices aren't nearly as much fun on commentaries.

From what I heard in an old interview, Yeardley Smith was hired exactly for her voice when a producer saw her from an old sitcom called Herman's Head. She and Hank Azaria both starred in that one.

1. Yes (Till I fell asleep)
2. No, Yes
3. It's sad, I can't watch it due to lack of Cable

Well, because I'm not a huge fan of the Simpsons in the first place may be a reason I didn't enjoy it. Though the previews and reviews made it seem worth watching. Though I believe that every Simsons fan will enjoy it.

I hope some of you watch The Simpsons regularly, because I'm curious about one major detail. In the movie (Spoiler) (Spoiler)s, Springfield is (Spoiler)ed, and of course (Spoiler) (Spoiler). These are all major things to have happen. Are all these 'details' forgotten by the next season, or are any of them retained and make a difference in the "world" of The Simpsons? Or is it a compromise where they're they all resolved in one episode?

It's all resolved in the opening sequence of the first episode of season 19 as Bart skateboards / Homer & Marge drive through town. :D But the rest of S19 (so far) has not referred to what happened -- though the pig does appear again in the Halloween special.

Continuity in the Simpsons is pretty fluid in the "We'll refer to it sometimes" sense. Some events that happen in an episode has a lasting impact and can last for several episodes while some are forgotten altogether. For instance, Flanders' wife is still dead, Barney quit drinking (not sure if he went back), and Lisa's still a vegetarian Buddhist.

If it's not important to the overall universe, though, the writers just forget about it.

C'mon, if they kept track of continuity, should Bart be twenty eight by now? :P

Speaking of continuity and Bart at 28 years old.

*Spoiler*

*SPOILER*

Something that I remember John Schwartzwelder and the other writers talking about in a season 6 or 7 (or 8 or 9) DVD commentary is their comment about Bart's future and how Bart turns out. In one ep, when they reveal when Lisa goes to college and meets her college sweetheart, (in which *spoiler* Milhouse is alluded to have been the one to pop her cherry) Bart foregos college and is in a nice business suit and tie, talking on his cellphone with Marge and facing a window with quite a view outside of some high-rise buildings.

*SPOILER*

Camera pulls out and it is revealed he's really wearing a T-shirt with a business suit and tie print, and he's working as a demolisher, the one who drives that wrecking ball machine and he just totaled said building.

*Spoiler*

But in the episode where the Itchy & Scratchy movie comes out, and Homer grounds Bart because he does something bad from ever seeing it (and the movie wins 10 academy awards, is considered the greatest movie of all time and runs for 8 full months in the theater) -- at the end of the episode, it is revealed that a middle age Bart Simpson has become Supreme Court Judge.

So the writers laugh at that lack of consistent continuity, by claiming that Bart has a rough life immediately after high school by becoming a construction worker, but somehow turns his life around after that and becomes Supreme Court Judge later in life. :)

Sorry -- had little to do with the movie, but you know, in case anyone wants to follow 'continuity' in judging where our favorite yellow cartoon characters end up in life.

Well, the future's the future, so I don't consider it to be carved in stone. Ditto the location of Springfield, which as far as I'm concerned went out the window when it's revealed that the area of Springfield that has their oil fields is "three times the size of the state of Texas." But the movie, which supposedly made some major changes, and was A MOVIE, should have had some more lasting impact. I guess the creators didn't want people who hadn't seen it to feel like they were being deprived???

Beautiful effects in the movie, overall. I'm glad I saw it on the big screen, but if they made a sequel, I'd wait to rent it as a DVD.

And Maggie still doesn't talk in the future.