My least favorite movie site, movies.com, has proven to be useful in providing this early look at "The Simpsons Movie", which, in case you haven't read any of my posts, is my most anticipated movie ever. Yes, I really am that geeky.
"So, is the The Simpsons Movie just another TV episode that goes on for too long? An early Ain't It Cool News reviewer, Biker-Boy, reports that, in its current state, it runs a very short 75 minutes, with the first half being "hysterical genius." His rave continues: "It's classic. It's old school. It's violent. It's slapstick. It's clever. It's everything you could ever want it to be … I haven't laughed so hard in ages." The second half hour? Not so much. It just drags on, Biker Boy reports — though, he adds, "It definitely ends well … It all wraps up pretty neatly, and the animation here is superb, mixing high quality 2-D and 3-D to outstanding effect." He also praises an "inspired" Bart Simpson sequence in the otherwise slow middle half hour. Final verdict? It has, he says, "the potential to become 'an all-time classic … which, sadly, the version I saw falls ever so slightly short of.'"
Well, there's still time to fix most of that. And that's positive, right? Right. Very reasurring.
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i feel like simpson's episodes are often strongest at the start, so this doesn't totally surprise me...
plus, i can imagine them having to take time "to resolve" the things they started in a reasonable plot sequence.
i too hope this is great.
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