{"id":209,"date":"2007-07-26T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T01:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2007-07-26T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T01:40:15","slug":"simpsons-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Simpsons Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw The Simpsons Movie<\/em> earlier on but wasn’t blown away.<\/p>\n

It was good and I enjoyed it but it just lacked the “wow” factor. It was just a long episode. In fairness, with the series having been on the go for 18 years there was no way it was going to meet the hype.<\/p>\n

And, let’s be honest here, when you find the high point of a film is a cameo by your favourite band — in this case Green Day — something’s gone awry. (Incidentally I liked how they used the band’s real names in the credits: Frank Edwin Wright III instead of Tr\u00e9 Cool and Michael Pritchard instead of Mike Dirnt.)<\/p>\n

In hindsight I’m not really sure what else the producers could have done. There are certain expectations when one watches The Simpsons<\/em>, expectations regarding style, humour topics, etc. and this film met those. Unfortunately it didn’t really build on them which disappointed me.<\/p>\n

Also, there was very little scope for the auxillary characters. Ms Krabappel and Groundskeeper Willie have no speaking roles as far as I remember, while Comic Book Guy is relegated to two scenes — one of which was a cheesy “life well spent collecting comic books” line.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, the film was one of those that clipped along at a fair old pace without hooking me in. Perhaps the producers were too conscious of the audience being accustomed to a 23-minute show and so ploughed ahead as fast as possible to keep their attention.<\/p>\n

Final verdict: a good watch, but not one a film you’d need to see more than once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw The Simpsons Movie earlier on but wasn’t blown away. It was good and I enjoyed it but it just lacked the “wow” factor. It was just a long episode. In fairness, with the series having been on the go for 18 years there was no way it was going to meet the hype. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}