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So The Simpsons movie.

You know The Simpsons, to give you an small run down, The Simpsons is an iconic adult animated show you Matt Groening that spawn 30+ seasons, endless Halloween specials called "Tree House of Horror" and today's topic, the movie and only one.

Before I go on, I've been reviewing since 2024 in my FilmClub, I'm leaving school and leaving this website and I have 4 weeks left for school until moving to college.

So, I decided to review movies that is special, movies that is worth my time and will be my last momments of review movies in school before moving on the next chapter.

Okay, back on track, I decided to watched this movie because I don't see many people praising it how good it is, so I'll like to take my time with this review.

So anyways without a further-a-do lets get into it:

How it was made: So now your wondering.

Leonard:"How they manage to accomplish a feature length movie and how did they get there?"

Glad you ask Leonard, but its best to start how did The Simpsons begin.

According to Matt, he is a cartoonist as he works with 20th Century Fox netflex with the brand new Tracy Alman show with his right hand friend Al Jean (executive producer of the show and the movie).

Matt inspiration of a new cartoon show, he has a family and drawn it. Some of the family names which includes he's dad named Homer, thus naming the dad character Homer and his two sisters named Lisa and Maggie would become the two sisters of the show.

Then, another character he draw a young boy which takes inspiration from himself, the boy was originally named Matt but it was too obvious when Matt pitch the show, so he renamed the boy, Bart.

In 1987, the idea was still in a working process, particularly the animation, the reason why the art style looks that way is because it's based on Matt's childhood drawings and it came from a comic he made called Rabbit, a story with a bunch of rabbits.

The three animators one of named David Silverman uses the cel animation technique.

It's where you do the drawings and sketch first and put paint on top of the layer, it took 60-80 hours a week just to animated just a minute a half.

Hints why they look very sharp and strachy.

Strangely enough, the pilot of this series ended up being the last episode of season 1.

According Al Jean, it's because they are trying to make the simpsons more round but this process was difficult for the animators who worked on it and they called this "delicate and Subtle".

This is also this episode has a lot of fluid animation in the scene where Ms. Botz talking to Bart, the animators seems to drawn more animation with that head shake.

Then, this fluid animation style is completely drop in season 2, so Matt made a rule book (500 pages) of how to draw The Simpsons correctly, if there's a mis-shape or the wrong line, it doesn't look like The Simpsons.

I recommended watching Kid Leaves Stoop on his YouTube video "The Simpsons 'No-ano Sheets'".

So it was the 90s, The Simpsons manage to become a gobal iconic across the world, each season is a smash hit after another smash hit, the fans called this The Golden Era of The Simpsons and rightfully so.

I love this series and the fact that I seen this show a million times and I still laugh at it is truly impeccable.

Eventually they switich to digital 2D animation, this brings us to the movie.

So how did thye made it, while believe or not, they used 3D animation for this, sure in one tree house of Terror HOMER where Homer finds a 3D Dimension which is the first time but the movie takes the advantage of fully utilise 3d animations potential.

So they used a more shadow, and more dramatic colours what the show couldn't achieve, the show only do shadow momments where the characters are in a dark room or something dramatic going on.

And you know what, even a kid like would never notice the CGI animation and the animation in this aged like fine as wine.

So the movie is released in 2007 July 21st (on state Springfield) is a world wide success grossing over £536.4 million at the box office on a £75 million budget.

Even more that the movie sadly didn't get any Oscar nominees but it was a winner in Golden Gobal Rewards for Best animated feature.

At that time, I was just born and for a few weeks but I do get the sense how many people love this movie at that time. Which brings me to the review.

What makes this movie so good?:

I think that is because of the witty humour of this movie, Matt wasn't sure if everyone outside of American would like or get the jokes but the worldwide laugh with the movie.

Every dialog in this movies is so hilarious, I keep on quoting the characters, if I mention all of the humour we will be here all day.

Another thing is that, everyone gets to do something, he'll they got Dr Nick (who is killed off and never appears on the show again, interesting). Every background character get to shine their momments even if they get small dialog, it gives you a sense of citizenship.

Including the main characters, every character get a side plot, Lisa orders Springfield to help the environment, Bart is looking for a dad who truly values him, Homer getting a new adopted pig but dumped the pig doo, then the city is covered by a dome by the USA president and the city turns on him, Marge says to Homer about saving Springfield, then Homer gets a motorbike and pays off at the end with Homer using the bike with Bart to destroyed the bomb and Maggie killed the President.

This might sound convoluted on paper but it surprisingly all fits well in a single narrator.

None of the story beats feels like random episode, they all paid off in a Cinematic way. The movie and a series as a whole is hilarious is because of showing Americans stupidly in the most absurd way imaginable but also not taking itself too serriously unlike most today's American adult cartoons where they shoved your mouth with political and low brow humour.

What also enhanced the experience is just the little details, like when the screen widen as the Movie rolls you in, Marge knits, it says "Dome Sweet Dome" and when she knits at Alaska it says "Nome sweet Nome" or The Simpsons literally commentary on the end credits.

Or little referrence where Homer ans Bart falling into the Springfield Gorge, you can see a broken Ambulance, which is the same Ambulance from season 2 also crashed and its stands here for 17 years.

These little details rewards you for being a fan or for spotting them even makes the scene funnier, it really adds on the experience.

Though if I have one complaint, it would be that the scene where Marge breaks up with Homer and flash back to their wedding should have taken this serrious but I feel like the comedic part just kind of killed the mood and inturpts the story a bit but that last for 2mins.

Closing Thoughts: So overall, I think the The Simpsons movie is great and a great sendoff to The Simpsons and a delight for Simpsons fans like me, I mean I'm the same person who watched (most) of the show and read the comics.

Also I love you Comic Book Guy, he's the best created by humanity and there's no competition.

So that's everything I got to say!