The Simpsons Movie review thread (Spoilers)

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I saw the movie again last night - I think I missed that the first time through. Still, if Burns can live without his heart beating, I think Nick will pull through.

Everybody noticed the gorge thing was a callback to “Bart the Daredevil,” but I don’t think anyone’s commented on the song in the wedding video. It was "“They Long to be Close to You,” a.k.a. ‘Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear,’ which has been used in the show as Homer and Marge’s love song, and as Marge’s poor choice for a doorbell chime.

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I noticed that, but I suppose I didn’t think about it too much. It was more like, when I was watching, I noticed, “Awww, it’s their song.”

mobo–it’ll be nice to see Plopper (is that what we’re calling him now?) again. Will the family bear any animosity towards him for that shoving them off the plank thing? Tune in next week!

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Even though I loathe the Carpenters with every fiber of my being, I was kind of hoping that Cargill would sing “I’m on top of the world looking down on creation” like Sideshow Bob’s brother did in that episode where he blew up the dam.

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The merchandise calls him “Plopper,” and Homer refers to him as “Plopper” when they’re on the plank (“No, Plopper. If you push that, Daddy will die.”), so I’m guessing that’s his official name. I just call him “The Pig.”

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Another note on “Close to You”–Apu and Manjula have it performed at their wedding, only in Hindi. (Just watched "The Two Mrs. Nahasa…er, not going to even try.)

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I get the feeling Plopper’s appearance will be in the form of a ham sandwich Homer will be eating while sitting on the couch.

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I thought Plopper saved the family from the archers by tipping the plank. But prehaps they don’t realize that?

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And then the zit-faced kid who always has the menial jobs shows up mopping the cinema, which struck me as even more contrived than all the other pits the movie fell into. I was disappointed, in general, the movie seemed to fall into so many cornball traps I hoped the extended production time would’ve helped avoid.

There were some laughs, to be sure, but I’ve had better and longer laughs from numerous episodes.

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That was the only disappointment I had, after I waited through all those credits. Gimme my 10 minutes back!

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You’d probably just waste them, anyway.

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Plus, “The Critic” had a similar thing (a squeaky voiced teen mopping up and then asking Jay to leave the theatre) over the closing credits of each episode.

I sat through the end credits, but I don’t remmeber a song about how Springfield had no anthems. Am I losing it?

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Guess so. :smiley: I thought it was a very funny song.

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It was definitely there. The recent Season 10 DVD has an animatic of the scene that was supposed to use it as a teaser for the movie DVD, including a quick parody of that painting of the topless lady holding the French flag with Maggie, and a brief solo by Elanor Abernathy (Cat Lady).

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Interesting it was scored by Hans Zimmer rather than Danny Elfman.

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I never thought about that, but that is interesting. Danny Elfman goes for a more goofy type of music, though, so I assume it wouldn’t have been right for the orchestral drama that they were looking for. I wonder if there would have been a musical number if Elfman had scored- and if it would have been good as any Alf Clausen have written.

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We just returned from the beach at Hua Hin. In the town, I picked up a bootleg DVD of the film. We still haven’t watched it in the theater yet, but we intend to next weekend. (We always prefer the big screen over the small if possible.) I picked up the DVD so I could go back and watch it for references I missed. Psyched about seeing it.

We’ll buy the real DVD, too, when it comes out, for the special features.

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I finally went to see the movie, at the newly renovatet 12-screen MegaPlex theatre in Portsmouth NH, very nice theatre, stadium seating, huge screen, and few patrons…

of course, I sat right behind an annoying group of teenagers that insisted on making “popping” noises (like Donkey in Shrek 2), but at least it was during the previews so it was ignorable, I really didn’t want to have to melt their retinas with my SureFire E1L**, but i was tempted, and my hand did drift down to my pocket and move the light to a more readily accesable location…

…stupid previews, over a half hour of adverts and previews, really pissed me off, that and the “popping crew” in front of me really soured my mood

this movie had better be pretty darned good then

It was, as stated upthread, it felt like an extended episode of the TV show, nothing special, but certainly a dammned sight better than the crap they’ve been airing over the past couple seasons

was it worth seeing in the theatre, well, not in my case, there was nothing that really screamed out “must be seen in theatre” to me, it was a decent film, better than I expected, but then again, I did go in with rather low expectations
** my E1L is modded with a Seoul Semiconductor P4 LED and reflector, it puts out at least 100 Lumens, more light than a 6D Mag, yet only 3" long and and it fits in my pocket

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I think that this would have given you more satisfying results, however.

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Yeah I’d probably go home and waste them on YouTube or some message board…

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Did I whoosh you? I was making a Simpsons reference. In the “22 Short Films About Springfield” episode, Apu attempts to do an entire party in 5 minutes, thinking that no one at the Kwik-E-Mart will mind. When he gets back, he sees Hans Moleman, who says, “You took 5 minutes of my life and I want them back! Oh, never mind. I’d probably just waste them, anyway.”