Friday, August 24, 2007

The Simpsons Movie

Here was the small screen animated hero coming to big screen. Although I'm not a Simpsons' fan myself (in fact, I think it is the dumbest thing ever, but that's just my opinion), I went to watch this craziness because I had to wait for another show to begin, but this definitely not worth the 8 bucks I paid, except for one, maybe, two things which I'll mention later.
So begins the Simpsons with Green Day running a campaign to save the environment in Springfield which fails miserably and the group dies in the lake. Lisa and her friend decide to spread the message around about safety and things start to get implemented and working. Meanwhile, Homer gets a pig and stores its excretion in a silo in the backyard. Marge asks him to dispose of it safely but Homer pays no attention and dumps it in the lake, which becomes polluted and starts mutating things that fall into it. While Homer is busy with the pig, Bart looks for a better parental figure - his neighbour and feels dejected about his own father. When the EDA finds the status of the lake, it seals Springfield in a glass dome. The townspeople are shocked and angry, and when they find out the silo, they burn down Simpsons' house and also try to attack them. But the family escapes through a sinkhole and moves to Alaska. On the TV, they see the ad for a new theme park right where Springfield was. Marge wants to save the town, but Homer refuses to help the town that tried to kill him. Marge and the children leave him and head back, only to have him join them later. EDA plans to destroy Springfield with a bomb, but Homer and Bart unite on a motorcycle and save Springfield.
Even though I'm not a fan myself, I did notice other people were laughing harder at the beginning of the movie and then it started to lower and disappear, so it wasn't a rolling comedy, but there were 2 bits that made it totally worth it - the spider pig sequence and the part where Marge leaves Homer - I never could understand why a woman would want to or continue to live with a man like that! A barely entertaining movie for non-Simpsons fans. Simpsons' fans - you would watch it either way :)..

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