The Simpsons Movie didn’t disappoint, it was packed with laughs. No, it’s not quite as good as you may have hoped it was going to be but there are plenty of laughs. Homer befriends a pig and gets the whole of Springfield in big, big trouble.There’s more pathos than in your typical Simpsons episode and the characters do grow a little bit throughout the film. The local residents don’t get as much screentime as I would have liked, but there’s still some great lines from the likes of Ralph, Moe and Chief Wiggum.
The baddie comes in the form of Albert Brooks playing a shadowy government agency head. Perhaps the thing that dilutes the movie’s impact is that they’ve had 17 years of plotlines in the TV series. Mr. Burns for example would have made a better villain, but of course that had been done several times in the TV series.
I dunno if the film will create new Simpsons fans, but those of you that have been watching it for years will certainly enjoy it. Mind and do as we did and stay in your seats when the credits roll, cos the jokes aren’t finished.
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Just to add to Tom's review, without going into plot or anything, I liked the unusual 'camera' angles that they employed. There is one scene with helicopters that was particularly well done. And a monologue with Marge that almost had me in tears. I really liked the film. It's not often that I laugh out loud in the cinema; things are not normally laugh out loud funny. This film is.
Nicola
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