The Simpsons Movie by David Silverman (2007)
12 August 200718 years in the making, and it really only feels like a TV episode. Sure it has better animation, with computer animation thrown in, and it is raunchier and has more inside jokes, but it still feels like more of the same, which isn’t bad, I was just expecting more out of this. Still it is a must see for any Simpsons fan, and is really funny, just not the revelation I thought it would be after 18 years.
The Simpsons family makes it to the big screen with Homer (Dan Castewllaneta who also plays Itchy/Barney/Grampa/Stage Manager/Krusty the Clown/Mayor Quimby/Mayor’s Aide/Multi-Eyed Squirrel/Panicky Man/Sideshow Mel/Mr. Teeny/EPA Official/Kissing Cop/Bear/Boy on Phone/NSA Worker/Officer/Santa’s Little Helper/Squeaky-Voiced Teen), Marge (Julie Kavner), their out of control son Bart (Nancy Cartwright who also plays Ralph/Nelson/Todd Flanders/TV Daughter/Woman on Phone), their precocious daughter Lisa (Yeardley Smith) and their baby Maggie (also Nancy Cartwright). And this time it is all about the environment. The local lake is so poluted it will be a national crisis if people keep poluting it, and Lisa tries to stop the catastrophy from happening. Homer though is estranging Bart, who is starting to yearn for a loving father like Ned Flanders, and Homer takes home a pig from Krusty Burger, and drives the family crazy with it, and stores the pig shit in a pig silo, which he eventually sneaks into the lake, and causes the disaster. The EPA as run by Russ Bargill (Albert Brooks) gets President Schwarzenneger to sign off on sealing Springfield in a giant dome, and the people find out it was Homer and turn on him to lynch him.
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Just as it seems all is Lost, little Maggie saves them by showing them a sync hole that leads out of the dome, and they just get out, as it gets sealed by their house which is smashed and fills the hole completely. Homer then convinced his family to run with him to Alaska, and they go to a fair, and he uses a motorcycle in a ring of death and wins the owners truck, and they head for a new life in Alaska. They see on TV an add by Tom Hanks showing a new grand canyon where Springfield once was, and Marge, Maggie, Bart and Lisa decide to head back and save Springfield, but Homer won’t go, and Marge decides to leave him, and tapes over their wedding video with her message to him.
Homer decides to go, but almost gets frozen and gets saved by an old inuit woman, who gives him medicine until he realizes that he must save other people to save himself. Meanwhile the Simpson family gets picked up by Russ Cargill and put back into the dome, which is total caos now. Everything is destroyed, and the town is completely in chaos. And Russ Cargill lowers a bomb into town. Cletus distracts Cargill, while the townspeople try to climb out, but Homer climbs up the dome, and slides in, dropping the rope, and knocking the townspeople back into the town. And Homer is now even more hated, but he has a plan. He wins back Homer from Flanders, and uses him to hold the bomb, while they ride a motorcycle around the dome to throw the bomb out, and manage to destroy the dome, and save the people of Springfield, who then rebuild their house.
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A very fun Simpsons episode, though as I said I was hoping for maybe a little more, but still fun. And I love the digs at film students, Disney and so much else. I could not stop laughing when they revealed Bart’s Penis though. What a gag that was! Ha!
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