Rate & Review: THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

[poochietherockingdog☆]

amazing 10/10 5/5 WHATEVER OUT OF WHATEVER IT WAS AMAZING
sequel we all chant (or no more movies, some chant)

 

[Magolor]

I thought it was ok. Wouldn't watch again.

 

[Malcolm the Smithers]

I liked it. I watched it with my hardcore christian dad he… enjoyed it? perhaps?

 

[Mud]

First time watching in at least over a decade.(?) This is the first piece of Simpsons media I ever watched, I saw it with my dad on like DVR or something when I was younger and loved it, but never watched the series until years later. It’s a funny, heartfelt, good time that deserves all the attention and praise it gets. My dad loves it, one of his favorite movies, and even my mom thought it was pretty alright. Nice to revisit this one, it’s a cornerstone of The Simpsons

 

[devontehuntley2]

So they're finally doing a sequel and it's to come out in 2027. What the heck took them 20 years? The show overall (counting the shorts) started in 1987 and took 20 years from then to even make the FIRST movie. See a pattern? At this rate, The Simpsons 3 may come out in 2047. We should have BEEN had a movie in the late 1990s with the sequel happening in around 2007. I can excuse a twenty year break from that if we had a third coming out in 2027, but 38 years and only ONE damn movie? Pathetic.

But they better step their game up with this one. As a huge fan of the show and not one of those post-Season 9 Simpson haters, the movie was rather lackluster. The plot was alright, but basic. Not the kind of story I would expect them to have waited 20 years to do. The story needed more richness to it. If this was like 1997, then it might have worked since the show is still young but it's like now, we needed something bigger. I also found it to be too short. 87 minutes including the credits was like....no. It needed to be longer. This needs to be pushing two hours with a much intriguing plot that's worth this new twenty year wait and almost forty years overall. This has to be BIG and nothing leaving me dissatisfied like "We waited twenty years for THIS?" sort of thing.

 

[lionelhutz123]

You aren't owed anything. Be thankful there was a movie to begin with.

 

[devontehuntley2]

You aren't owed anything. Be thankful there was a movie to begin with.

Doesn't matter. You're making it for the fans and it's either make it or break it if it and unless you don't want to ruin the chance of making another or show us the charm is lost and have people tune out of this overall in the process, which will NOT help the brand continue, then do it right by the expectations the fans want. The franchise is too big to be given something that's mediocre by 2007 and certainly even NOW almost twenty years after that. Deal with it. The movie fell short from what COULD have been a great rejuvenating period for the series and people have the right to complain and want something better. Now pushing almost twenty years after that and forty years after when this whole thing started this next movie needs to be on a GODLY level that will blow heaven out of the sky or else, it'll all be for nothing. Don't just be accepting anything because that attitude is why these filmmakers and producers feel the need to slack a lot of the time and rely on nostalgia to see their work as great. No thank you, not pulling that one on me.

ThatRoberspierreStan and Mud, you want to agree with that comment, you both can get a clue too.

 

[Mud]

ThatRoberspierreStan and Mud, you want to agree with that comment, you both can get a clue too.

Thanks, friend

 

[Mud]

So they're finally doing a sequel and it's to come out in 2027. What the heck took them 20 years? The show overall (counting the shorts) started in 1987 and took 20 years from then to even make the FIRST movie. See a pattern? At this rate, The Simpsons 3 may come out in 2047. We should have BEEN had a movie in the late 1990s with the sequel happening in around 2007. I can excuse a twenty year break from that if we had a third coming out in 2027, but 38 years and only ONE damn movie? Pathetic.

But they better step their game up with this one. As a huge fan of the show and not one of those post-Season 9 Simpson haters, the movie was rather lackluster. The plot was alright, but basic. Not the kind of story I would expect them to have waited 20 years to do. The story needed more richness to it. If this was like 1997, then it might have worked since the show is still young but it's like now, we needed something bigger. I also found it to be too short. 87 minutes including the credits was like....no. It needed to be longer. This needs to be pushing two hours with a much intriguing plot that's worth this new twenty year wait and almost forty years overall. This has to be BIG and nothing leaving me dissatisfied like "We waited twenty years for THIS?" sort of thing.

God, every word of this is so pretentious
“THIS MOVIE HAAAAASSSS TO HAVE THIS, I AM OWED THIS BECAUSE I AM A FAN”
It’s fine to hate on the movie but getting upset about how long they’re taking is ridiculous. Movies take a long time, especially if they’re being done concurrently to a literal 37 season (and counting) animated series, not to mention the countless separate projects the team works on simultaneously. We’re lucky that we’re getting two movies before the 40 year mark

 

[devontehuntley2]

Then get a separate studio to handle the movie(s) with a different team of animators so we don't have the same team doing both the show and keeping up with that and the potential movie. Then all the voice actors have to do is voice work for the movie when they're on break from the show. There, limits time to get a movie done. Even with the way things are now apparently I don't see them still taking twenty years to do a movie as SOME form of free time has to be in the mix for that to happen. For this wait, it's simply because they weren't interested which is shocking given how successful the first one still was.

Two movies before a 40 year mark is nothing to be excited about when there are plenty of long running animated shows out there with several movies under their belt particularly in Japan who put the U.S. to shame when it comes to their studio work and yet are able to crank out fluid and the most precious looking animated projects ever to be made. There's really no excuse for the U.S. side to fault at this. By now we should have had THREE Simpsons movies perhaps one every decade, the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.

 

[AnythingSlim]

So they're finally doing a sequel and it's to come out in 2027. What the heck took them 20 years? The show overall (counting the shorts) started in 1987 and took 20 years from then to even make the FIRST movie. See a pattern? At this rate, The Simpsons 3 may come out in 2047. We should have BEEN had a movie in the late 1990s with the sequel happening in around 2007. I can excuse a twenty year break from that if we had a third coming out in 2027, but 38 years and only ONE damn movie? Pathetic.

But they better step their game up with this one. As a huge fan of the show and not one of those post-Season 9 Simpson haters, the movie was rather lackluster. The plot was alright, but basic. Not the kind of story I would expect them to have waited 20 years to do. The story needed more richness to it. If this was like 1997, then it might have worked since the show is still young but it's like now, we needed something bigger. I also found it to be too short. 87 minutes including the credits was like....no. It needed to be longer. This needs to be pushing two hours with a much intriguing plot that's worth this new twenty year wait and almost forty years overall. This has to be BIG and nothing leaving me dissatisfied like "We waited twenty years for THIS?" sort of thing.

 

[devontehuntley2]

Damn straight, I didn't stick around watching this show for 20+ years and defending the post-Season 9 episodes from these Golden era rednecks to be giving mediocre movie material best fit for early Simpsons days as much as the first movie was best fit coming out a decade earlier than it did for what IT'S even worth. You better get it straight.

 

[Mud]

"Golden era rednecks" is the only thing of value I got from your somehow paragraph-long assertion that the show owes you personally a good movie because you defend them online

 

[JustTakeIt]

Damn straight, I didn't stick around watching this show for 20+ years and defending the post-Season 9 episodes from these Golden era rednecks to be giving mediocre movie material best fit for early Simpsons days as much as the first movie was best fit coming out a decade earlier than it did for what IT'S even worth. You better get it straight.

"GRRRR how could they make a film so bad even though I got mad about it online!!!! they should know what I like!!!! i'm a loyel stimsops and i deserve better!!!!!"

 

[Mr. ~ (_8^(|)]

"GRRRR how could they make a film so bad even though I got mad about it online!!!! they should know what I like!!!! i'm a loyel stimsops and i deserve better!!!!!"

that rant is hilarious but also u got the opposite of what they meant, they are mad the film is "bad" bc they defend the simps so much

 

[devontehuntley2]

Neither of you washed up goats got what I meant. I think the film is OK but nothing great. It needed to be better which means this one after twenty years from that really needs to step it up or else it will be a waste of time and probably lose more of the fanbase. Now eat pickles.

 

[ThrashtheTrash]

No one is "owed" a Simpsons movie. If anything, giving a movie to this series, especially at the 20 year mark, is more of a curse than a blessing. It's practically impossible to condense the essence of a series like this into a 90 minute movie that satisfies everyone. It's easy to just say, "make it funny and make it about the Simpsons," but there's so much more to this series. So many characters, so many episode genres, so many traditions, etc etc; they're always gonna miss a spot, so to speak. Besides adding characters which is lame af to me, the movie did the best it could in juggling all this shit while making a presentable story for a movie meant to be watched by more than just fans. If you feel like the experience is lackluster, yeah, that's kinda by design. You came in with expectation that the movie was going to land on exactly your perfect image of what the series should do, but it's like throwing darts at a dart board at that point. The only way to really solve this problem is to do several movies, and considering they're only making a sequel now, I don't think the staff is willing or able

Complaining is our specialty here on NHC, but sometimes you just gotta shrug and accept things how they are. Movies are hard for a series like this, and it's miraculous we have one, even more so that there's a second on the way

 

[kupomog]

I rarely ever want movie versions of shows I watch because I tend to find them to be a lackluster singular experience compared to the entirety of whatever series it is for. It's usually inevitable for me; I have very few "movies" I like as much as a series. As an older Simpsons fan who lived through pure 90s Bartmania, essentially quit in the mid 2000s, and thought the first movie was a solid 3 and no better, I am at the point where I do not care if they make this movie. However, if they do then I simply want them to do it before anyone dies. Morbid but real. The movie will be scrutinized to death just like the rest of the series has been and I'm sure the staff working on it realizes that, but if we are to get another movie then I want it to be with as much of the original cast intact as possible.

 

[Xendrix]

Nah, but like 1.5 or 1/5. I’ll write a detailed review someday.

 

[devontehuntley2]

No one is "owed" a Simpsons movie. If anything, giving a movie to this series, especially at the 20 year mark, is more of a curse than a blessing. It's practically impossible to condense the essence of a series like this into a 90 minute movie that satisfies everyone. It's easy to just say, "make it funny and make it about the Simpsons," but there's so much more to this series. So many characters, so many episode genres, so many traditions, etc etc; they're always gonna miss a spot, so to speak. Besides adding characters which is lame af to me, the movie did the best it could in juggling all this shit while making a presentable story for a movie meant to be watched by more than just fans. If you feel like the experience is lackluster, yeah, that's kinda by design. You came in with expectation that the movie was going to land on exactly your perfect image of what the series should do, but it's like throwing darts at a dart board at that point. The only way to really solve this problem is to do several movies, and considering they're only making a sequel now, I don't think the staff is willing or able

Complaining is our specialty here on NHC, but sometimes you just gotta shrug and accept things how they are. Movies are hard for a series like this, and it's miraculous we have one, even more so that there's a second on the way

Of course no one is OWED a movie, but if they DO make one then we're owed a SPECTACULAR one. And it's not hard. You just need a powerful story to tell with the characters. They had a good premise for the 2007 movie, it just needed more to it and be LONGER since it does seem like an extended episode more than anything. And they're certainly not hard to make given all the time they have to prepare for it. You'd think after 20 years they could give us something richer and more given the time since the first the sequel ought to be a banger.

 

[Xendrix]

Of course no one is OWED a movie, but if they DO make one then we're owed a SPECTACULAR one. And it's not hard. You just need a powerful story to tell with the characters. They had a good premise for the 2007 movie, it just needed more to it and be LONGER since it does seem like an extended episode more than anything. And they're certainly not hard to make given all the time they have to prepare for it. You'd think after 20 years they could give us something richer and more given the time since the first the sequel ought to be a banger.

I get your frustration (which I share) with the original movie but when you say ‘and it’s not hard’ I think you’re really underselling how difficult it is to make a good movie at all. There are so many factors that go into it: Characters, plot, pacing, animation, acting, directing, cinematography, humour. I could go on. I REALLY don’t like The Simpsons Movie and I think it fails on most of the fronts I mentioned but I think we should recognise the work that went into it and goes into other movies instead of saying ‘it’s not hard to make a spectacular movie’.

 

[Dogmagril]

Of course no one is OWED a movie, but if they DO make one then we're owed a SPECTACULAR one. And it's not hard. You just need a powerful story to tell with the characters. They had a good premise for the 2007 movie, it just needed more to it and be LONGER since it does seem like an extended episode more than anything. And they're certainly not hard to make given all the time they have to prepare for it. You'd think after 20 years they could give us something richer and more given the time since the first the sequel ought to be a banger.

I mean yeah the movie will feel like an extended episode of the Simpsons. We know for a fact that scrapped ideas are turned into episodes. Besides Colin, the movie is actually has a pretty structurally sound three act structure.

You are diminishing the craft by saying it is easy. It’s not, especially if you are creating towards as big and fickle as an audience.
What do you even want the sequel to be anyways? You keep saying it has to be spectacular but what does that mean to you?

 

[devontehuntley2]

The post-Season 9 era gets a of flack and there's such good episodes that still existed even NOW, I just want the movies made in this era to be something that will knock the socks off these Golden era fiends and perhaps can draw them back to the show....LIKE KUPOMOG....so mediocre movies just don't work. They have plenty of time over the years to come up with some good stuff...just think of something big with the characters and just go from there. Do something based off the cool backstories we gotten so far like there's so much story material to work with from the hundreds of episodes we have thus far. Some of these episodes we get, the really good ones if extended, could have BEEN potential movies or be merged up to be something great.

 

[JustTakeIt]

I forgot to rate the movie lol

10/10

 

[octopussy garden]

The post-Season 9 era gets a of flack and there's such good episodes that still existed even NOW, I just want the movies made in this era to be something that will knock the socks off these Golden era fiends and perhaps can draw them back to the show....LIKE KUPOMOG....so mediocre movies just don't work. They have plenty of time over the years to come up with some good stuff...just think of something big with the characters and just go from there. Do something based off the cool backstories we gotten so far like there's so much story material to work with from the hundreds of episodes we have thus far. Some of these episodes we get, the really good ones if extended, could have BEEN potential movies or be merged up to be something great.

we r not bringing simpsons movie discourse into 2026 lil bro also if ur implying kupo doesnt watch or hasnt liked anything modern then lmao

 

[kupomog]

Mm yea I started watching again and definitely was watching here and there in pockets in the years since stopping as I can recount the horrors I experienced watching episodes like "Husbands and Knives." At least Season 37 gave me my son Devin.

 

[ThrashtheTrash]

we r not bringing simpsons movie discourse into 2026 lil bro

That’s what you think, once they finally reveal what movie 2 is about the discourse will be worse than ever before

 

[devontehuntley2]

I forgot to rate the movie lol

10/10

You suck. 6/10 at the most. It's barely above passing.

we r not bringing simpsons movie discourse into 2026 lil bro also if ur implying kupo doesnt watch or hasnt liked anything modern then lmao

The sequel was already announced so yes we are. Where have you been? Too busy sleeping under a rock watching your precious Golden era episodes of overkill. Toad. -_-

Mm yea I started watching again and definitely was watching here and there in pockets in the years since stopping as I can recount the horrors I experienced watching episodes like "Husbands and Knives." At least Season 37 gave me my son Devin.

Well you have a lot of catching up to do. Take it from me who's been watching religiously for the last 20+ years and loved 75% of what I watched I highly recommend. You need to get it together.

Also, that's DEVONTE. Not Devin, you could at least call me "DEVON" that would be somewhat accurate.

 

[devontehuntley2]

I mean yeah the movie will feel like an extended episode of the Simpsons. We know for a fact that scrapped ideas are turned into episodes. Besides Colin, the movie is actually has a pretty structurally sound three act structure.

You are diminishing the craft by saying it is easy. It’s not, especially if you are creating towards as big and fickle as an audience.
What do you even want the sequel to be anyways? You keep saying it has to be spectacular but what does that mean to you?

The structure is too thin and short. The movie needed about 20 more minutes added to it (given the amount of years it took to even make the damn thing from when this franchise started). Also, a sequel being better meaning something richer than the first - bigger story, LONGER story while we're at it, bigger drama, long lasting memorable moments people will quote and meme for years/decades to come, why ask such ludicrous questions like you don't know the answer to this? Are you not familiar with sequel elements? You need to get out more.

 

[Xendrix]

The structure is too thin and short. The movie needed about 20 more minutes added to it (given the amount of years it took to even make the damn thing from when this franchise started). Also, a sequel being better meaning something richer than the first - bigger story, LONGER story while we're at it, bigger drama, long lasting memorable moments people will quote and meme for years/decades to come, why ask such ludicrous questions like you don't know the answer to this? Are you not familiar with sequel elements? You need to get out more.

You suck. 6/10 at the most. It's barely above passing.

The sequel was already announced so yes we are. Where have you been? Too busy sleeping under a rock watching your precious Golden era episodes of overkill. Toad. -_-

Well you have a lot of catching up to do. Take it from me who's been watching religiously for the last 20+ years and loved 75% of what I watched I highly recommend. You need to get it together.

Also, that's DEVONTE. Not Devin, you could at least call me "DEVON" that would be somewhat accurate.

“You need to get out more” “You need to get it together” lol I swear this is ragebait. Why are you being so condescending about this? You’re worse than that guy in the Simpsons Movie 2 thread who shunned the board for being ‘too negative’. It’s fine if you disagree with others on the movie and it’s your right to express your reasons why but you cannot talk down to people like their opinions and by your logic they as a person are less valuable. I think you need to work on how you treat people with different opinions.