Last month I like many of you waited in anticipation for a movie that’s plot summary was as follows: “The story of man and his love for a pig.” Well that sold me and yesterday I finally got to see that love played out on the big screen in The Simpsons Movie. Let’s get the biggest question out of the way first, is it worth the wait? Hell’s to the yes, it was worth the wait. I laughed, I cried, and I cried laughing.
The writers and producers have made a film that maintains the TV show’s integrity while taking advantage of everything they can on the big screen. While this isn’t South Park you can tell they were happy to shed the network sensors. The animation is beautiful, which is something you rarely think when watching the show. The scope of the film is bigger too and I don’t just mean story wise. Each frame of animation is filled to the brim and while they tend to that on TV, you often miss things due to the size. Here every billboard, poster, and background actor is clear, noticeable, and often very, very, funny.
While the movie takes full advantage of the cinematic differences from TV, it doesn’t over do it. The film wasn’t used to set up any kind of status quo changing event for the show except for the shocking death of one character. Also, the movie doesn’t include any more celebrity voices then you’re average episode. Best of all they don’t do anything you wouldn’t expect from the characters we’ve grown to know and love. While the story would not be contained by TV the message and arc of it is classic Simpsons. Homer’s a screw up but he loves Marge and the kids more then anything. We’ve seen the story in a million episodes but it never gets old and the movie does it better then I’ve seen in any recent ep.
Spider-pig, Spider-pig…
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