The Simpsons Movie is funny. There's no doubting that. The problem was - and this was always going to be extremely hard to surmount - that it just felt like an extended TV episode. In the series, over eighteen years, they've just about done everything possible. One of the many things that was original about it - that they did epic storylines in 30 minutes - has undermined their attempt to do a film. The Simpsons have already caused mass destruction and/or saved the world - several times. So it was always going to be a struggle to create a plot-line that would be a step above what they've done before. The other options were thus either: explain something new about the characters you didn't know before, or have better jokes than you've ever done before. Again, however, after eighteen years, there's not much left you haven't seen/heard. The jokes were good, but no better than your average episode. The one thing about the film that was appealing was something that might be specific to me. The first ever episodes I watched (from season 2) were Bart's mini-golf tournament and his attempt to jump the Springfield gorge on a skateboard. One of those episodes is tied back into the finale, and it made me think perhaps this is what the film should've been - a homage to the series, rather than an attempt to do something new?
In other news, Michelangelo Antonioni died yesterday.
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