Gratuitous Llama Netflix Movie Review

The Simpsons (2007)

Yes, I finally saw it.

My chief fear had been that the movie was going to go off in some horrible direction at an oblique angle from the tee vee show. The good news is that it doesn't. Indeed, the plot isn't really much more than a somewhat extended version of what typically shows up on Sunday nights. The bad news also is that the plot isn't really much more than a somewhat extended version of what typically shows up on Sunday nights, because it serves to remind us once again that the whole Simpsons franchise is well past its prime and nothing like it was in its glory days of seven or eight years back.

All in all? Eh, it was okay. Don't know if I'd bother with it again, tho.

Incidentally, the thing that grabbed me the most was the fact that the animation technique was much closer to that of Futurama than the Simpsons tee vee show. I kept half expecting Bender to do a walk on. I'd like to see him and Bart facing off in a Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon-type showdown.