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The Exciting Review – The Simpsons Film
Filed under: Music; Tagged as: arts, computers, downloads, entertainment, family, games, internet, leisure, movies, Music, recreation, sports, technologyComments OffThose yellow, cartoon phenomenons have finally made their way to the silver screen and yes it only took eighteen years. So does the cartoon movie meet the hilarity of the television show? Keep reading and find out – doh!
The town of Springfield’s lake is overly polluted and socially conscious Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) rallies this town to clean it up. Her dad Homer (Dan Castellaneta) saves a pig from being slaughtered after it’s used as a prop in a Krusty the Clown commercial and begins to treat it just like the son he always wanted.
This doesn’t set well with Bart (Nancy Cartwright) who finds that Mr. Flanders (Harry Shearer) is a more caring father than his pig loving one. Homer’s new oinking child does what pig’s do and Homer puts the outcomes in a huge silo within the backyard (well, Homer did put a bit of himself in the job). His wife Marge (Julie Kavner) tells him to eliminate the silo of pig waste.
Homer does indeed, not surprisingly, by dumping it on Lake Springfield. This infusion of pollution causes the EPA to become alerted about the situation. They react in their normal restrained manner – the director Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks) orders a huge glass dome cover the town.
The Simpsons ultimately find themselves outside the dome and Homer decides to take off rather than help his neighbors (especially given that they formed an angry mob against him when they learned that it was his silo that pushed the lake beyond the limit). He takes the family to Alaska and start over again, but the rest of the household thinks they ought to return and save Springfield.
The Simpsons have been a tv hit since they started airing in 1989. There’s been rumors that creator Matt Groening should bring his jaundiced creations to the big screen. He’s seemingly been happy on television however it has finally come to pass and the results are entertaining.
The film does play just like a bigger and extended episode of the television show. It has some entertaining commentary on society as well as just outright wacky comedy. One bit of commentary has the church folk running to Moe’s bar and the bar patrons running to church as the giant dome of doom is placed on the community.
We also have an extended Bart dare as he skateboards naked down to the Krusty Burger. Not to mention the “Spider Pig” song that my kids would sing during the theatrical trailer.
Where this disc lets down just a little is not in the content of the film but in the special feature department. It feels really rather light and you keep thinking that a more expansive special edition will be in the works somewhere down the line – doh!.
The Simpsons is presented in anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) and it is enhanced for 16×9 televisions. A fullscreen version is available independently. Special features include two commentary tracks.
The first features writer/creator Matt Groening, writer/producer James L. Brooks, writer/producer Al Jean, writer/producer Mike Scully, director David Silverman, Yeardley Smith, and Dan Castellaneta, and also the second one includes director Silverman, and sequence directors Mike B. Anderson, Steven Dean Moore and Rich Moore.
You will find 5 minutes of deleted scenes introduced by Al Jean. The “Special Stuff” section has 3 minutes of Simpsons appearances on the Tonight Show, American Idol, and a parody of the “Let’s all go to the Lobby” concession stand spiel. That is it. Seems pretty light in my experience.
The movie is entertaining, but the extra features feel like a bit of a letdown so far as deleted scenes go, the commentaries are top notch. It’s well worth it for the movie. I must knock it down a little because it could have been a bigger set (and i believe will probably be somewhere down the line).
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