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saw it last night... laughed a little... bart's penis scene was clever... pig was a bit overplayed... given it a low b - high c
Go see it. Laughed a lot...kids and adult humor...worth the $5
saw it last night... laughed a little... bart's penis scene was clever... pig was a bit overplayed... given it a low b - high c
I'm seeing it later on today.
The consensus seems to be in the B range. I think the series officially jumps the shark with this movie though. Would it be considered Ironic if the movie fans have been waiting for for years actually kills the series? I think so. At least a little bit.
everyones favorite cool buzzword. Thanks alot Fonz.I think the series officially jumps the shark with this movie though
BTW, the Shows been on for what, 15 16 years?
If it had only been on 2 or 3 years I'd agree, but damn 15 16 years, and its still going strong.
How can it kill the series???
The movie is making millions, everyone comes out of the theater smiling, and the reviews are good. There were laughs throughout the movie, a lot of clever lines for adults and some slapstick for the kids, a good mix, it will be a huge success.
I thought the movie was great. For the series being so successful, many people probably thought a movie would it up, but this movie was funny.
Average at best.
If Beavin n Butthead rude crude floats your boat then yes the movie is like an extended episode of the last 8 years.
Really jumped shark circa 9th season when Homer went from lovable obnoxious baffoon to downright heartless and nasty. Ie Grimey Grimes episode when he caused Grimes death then laughed and acted like a slob at the funeral. Now its digressed to where even Marge is getting to be an asshole. Laughing at other peoples pain and lowbrow seems to be the staple of current uncreative writers.
If that's what floats your boat, enjoy.
I seem to be hearing this a lot, that the shows writing has gone from genius to nothing more than putting together whatever it takes for a cheap laugh. The show has sucked for the last 10 years almost and I'm hearing this is more of the same.
No way this movies lives up the immense hype that has followed it for all the rumored years of its realease.
I guarantee that's why the waited so late to release the trailers to it.
This movie will not blow....but I fail to see how it can live up to expectations.
Still....I will go see it and decide for myself.
i agree. homer used to do ridiculous stuff, but in the end he did whatever for his family. the death knell for me was the arman ketayan (sp?) episode, but i kept watching until the episode where homer and lisa tried to rob a museum or something just for thrills. it was obvious by that point that groening's heart wasn't in it, and futurama was where the creativity was. fox has been beating a dead horse for a decade. i am glad groening has been getting paid though, since fox killed the show he liked by putting it on sundays at 6 and having it being bumped weekly by football postgame.
Not outright kill it. Thats not what I meant. I meant this movie will probably be the jumping of the shark for the series, and kill it in the sense that this may be the definitive "beginning of the end" of the simpsons.
Exactly. The show is an abberation, an enigma. How could a show keep going so damn long without jumping? The movie may be it. If the movie is a huge success...how do they top it? That is where I am coming from.
The Simpsons can do no wrong in my view.
I'm a total sucker for this show and have been since it came on when I was 10 years old.
I TIVO all repeats, I catch every Sunday episode, and I'm going to see the movie tomorrow.
I firmly believe anyone between the ages of 25-30 (I'm 27), and watched this show from the start, loves the Simpsons. The humor grew up with us. It went from focusing on Bart and "don't have a cow", which was funny when we were 10, all the way to Homer and the unbelievably dry humor and sarcasm that most of my generation seems to enjoy.
Long Live Homer...........even if the episodes are completely random.
By the way, Family Guy, while hilarious, is still a complete rip-off of the Simpsons.
I don't think Family Guy is a ripoff of the simpsons, only in the respect that it follows the "Enormously fat funny man marries hot wife" formula, which Simpsons itself did not create.
Family Guy is a show that will be completely irrelevant in 20 years because noone who watches an episode will know or remember all the pop culture referneces that make the bread and butter of the show. The jokes of family guy are mostly outside of the plot.
It's not a simpsons ripoff, thats a weak argument.
i wouldn't consider it a rip off, but seth openly admitted he was trying to outdo the simpsons. i couldn't watch family guy after the hiatus, it fell off big time. futurama was better than all of them when they were all on.
It's a weak argument. Like mentioned earlier in this thread simpsons has gone on what, 15 years? They've probably copied themselves by now. South park is not a simpsons ripoff and they made an episode showing how its almost impossible not to steal show ideas from the simpsons even inadvertantly because they've done EVERYTHING.
Stealing show ideas does not make it a ripoff.
It means one or two episodes ripped it off. The show itself still stands alone. It's a seperate beast.
The simpsons is like the longest running tv show EVER isn't it?
Yeah FG was always inferior to simpsons, noone has ever doubted that. They've stolen skits and what not, nobody has ever denied it, but the premise and the show itself is not a ripoff.
Family Guy uses completely different (and lamer) ways to get their laughs.
Unhappily Ever After is a prime example of a ripoff show, ripping off Married With Children.
I heard Futurama was going to get started again, but it was going to be on Comedy Central.
While I like Simpsons more, Futurama was highly underrated....... I thought.
they made 4 futurama "movies" which they are chopping up into episodes. i liked the simpsons more, but by that time it turned into trash homer as a person and character.
Wasn't that the one where Bobcat Goldwaith (sp?), was the voice of a stuffed dog?
See, I just don't get the issue that many have with Homer.
Homer was a great character, but they just turned it into a Homer bashing fest around 1998 or 1999. I just didn't think it was as funny after all the good writers they had had gone off to other stuff.
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