The Simpsons….Movie
Saturday, July 28th, 2007Just got back from seeing The Simpsons Movie. How is it? Well, my cheeks still hurt from laughing.
Hey, the cheeks of my face not my…you so need to get your mind out of the gutter there.
Yes, the movie was very much an over sized episode. No, not an episode from the good years of the series. It’s more on the level of the recent good episodes from a couple of seasons ago.
The big difference with the movie comes from the freedom of the film screen versus the TV screen. The writers, all fourteen credited writers, took the freedom to insert a few more craps and goddamns than normal. Not to mention one unmentionable body part.
The first half of the movie you will be laughing a lot. The jokes are coming at you almost every other moment. As the movie drives towards the climax, the jokes slow down, but some of the best of the film await you then.
I would give you some of the plot, but I won’t. You must see this for yourself. Yes, I know some of the storylines are re-purposed from TV episodes. Plus the shear size of the cast of characters of the show seems to weigh down the movie with trying to fit many of them into it.
Despite that, I would have to say it is one of the best comedy’s out this summer.
Sure it can’t compete in the unintentional comedy of the new Lindsay Lohan movie, but hey someone sold that flaming pile of crap as a drama/thriller/horror movie not what it really is…an excuse to get the young starlet to dance around scantily clad.
Sorry about that, tangent over. Like I said, The Simpsons Movie is the best intentional comedy of this summer.*
(* That I have seen so far. Which given the limited amount of movies in Great Bend, isn’t saying much.)
