The Simpsons Movie

July 30, 2007

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 87 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DO’H after countless years the Simpson’s are on the big screen, as more than a marketing tool for Tracey Ullman. It’s the longest running show in history and it took them almost 20 years to get it through their head to make a movie, but it was worth the wait. I laughed out loud almost the entire time and so did most of the theater. Bravo Groening!

The Simpsons Movie The movie is more than a compilation of random episodes, it’s an actual movie with a beginning a middle and an end. So here’s how it goes: Start out with Grandpa having an Exorcist moment at church, where he predicts the end of Springfield through some twisted chant. The Simpson family end his demented ramblings by rolling him up in a rug and taking him for pancakes… Mmmm Pancakes. Bart and Homer have a friendly father/son dare contest in which Homer dares Bart to skateboard down to Krusty Burger Jaybird style - Creating an image that will be stuck in the head of Ralph Wiggum, and the audience forever.

Bart is caught by Chief Wiggum and is chained butt naked to a pole all afternoon until Homer comes to pick him up. Homer lies and tells them Bart had not been dared and Bart takes the fall for his idiot father, again. For the next 15 minutes there’s the sappy son breaking away from dad thing… This would be the time to go get some popcorn.

Homer deals with the father/son problem by getting a pig ( a.k.a. Spider-Pig, Harry Plopper) which ends up being a huge problem for Springfield, and the Simpson family. Homer builds a “Pig Crap” silo which he dumps in the already polluted Lake Springfield (against Marge’s wishes),creating Mutant squirrels??? Soon he dooms all of Springfield when the EPA discovers said mutant squirrels; their solution, drop a big dome over Springfield to keep the people and their mutants from getting out into the rest of the world.

The people of Springfield, torch’s and pitchfork’s in hand want revenge so they head over to Homer’s house to lynch him, and his brood. Maggie saves the day and Homer’s great plan after they escape the dome, and Springfield is to move to Alaska and start over. They give free money away to each person in Alaska you know.

Excellent movie, with all the humor you would expect from a season’s best episode of the long running show along with a few pushes of the envelope, the Simpson’s Movie was well worth the money.

Posted by CC | Filed Under 4 Stars, Bart, Comedy, Homer, Lisa, Maggie, Marge, PG-13, Theatrical