Movies The Simpsons 2 - 23/7/2027

[650lb Sumo]

I stopped watching when I moved out of my mother's flat at age twenty. That was eighteen years ago.

I did see a few of the newer episodes on random nights in hotels and self-catering holidays, but they felt weird. I thought that it looked and sounded too clean and high budget.

I saw the first movie when it came out at cinema and I thought the same thing. It started off quite strong but it's momentum evaporated as soon as Homer disappeared beneath that hole.

Some other poster in another thread had it right. Comedies don't hold up well over time. They start off strong but become cumbersome around the middle of their films. All of my favourite TV turned films suffered from this, Bottom, Beavis and Butthead, Simpsons, South Park, Futurama...

It's generally accepted that the single-figure serieses were the Golden Age and the rest is mediocre. I think I stopped in 12. 37 is currently showing and apparently it's going to continue at least until 40. The first film has 87% (critics) and 77% (public) on RT.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

It's generally accepted that the single-figure serieses were the Golden Age and the rest is mediocre. I think I stopped in 12. 37 is currently showing and apparently it's going to continue at least until 40. The first film has 87% (critics) and 77% (public) on RT.

That's pretty damning.

I think that the newer ones I watched felt like more of a parody of The Simpsons than actual Simpsons. Homer isn't just Homer doing dumb shit and going DOH!. They seemed to do more fantastical stuff as well.

 

[djacobox372]

Nah. The first movie was bad enough. Had some moments, but it barely felt like The Simpsons. I can't imagine how bad this will be, now that the series barely has any identity at all, and is just the familiar characters going through the motions with scripts that feel like they were created by AI.

OR

Maybe this is the injection of interest and budget needed to get the series back on track.

 

[HereticBD]

I stopped watching when I moved out of my mother's flat at age twenty. That was eighteen years ago.

I did see a few of the newer episodes on random nights in hotels and self-catering holidays, but they felt weird. I thought that it looked and sounded too clean and high budget.

Yeah, they got away from the hand drawn shit, and went to cheap and polished CGI. Cartoons lose something when they go that route. It's like a collective "who gives a fuck?", and it bleeds into the writing.

 

[UppercutFromHades]

I cant wait. The Simpsons movie gets better each time you watch it. It's brilliantly funny. TBH overall Simpsons has fallen off a lot from its prime (first 10 seasons) but I hope they can hit the movie out the park.