Product Description

Homer accidentally causes an environmental catastrophe which could doom Springfield forever. Homer now must save the city and rescue his family. Springfield's usual characters and new favorites all turn up in the first ever movie length version of the hit TV show 18 years in the making.Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: COMEDY/TEEN Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543492016 Manufacturer No: 2249201

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2932 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2007-12-18
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 87 minutes

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The Simpsons had already ruled TV land for many years by the time they finally attempted to conquer the movie world as well. It was never any big secret that a Simpsons movie was in the works: Fox registered the domain name "Simpsonsmovie.com" in 1997, a full nine years before the film was finally greenlighted. When creator/producer Matt Groening's creation finally made it to the big screen in 2007, it only turned out to be the biggest hit of the summer, raking in over $100 million gross in box-office receipts in its first week, before heading on to do over $500 million worldwide, proving that the best joke in the movie was actually played on the audience: "Why pay for something when you can see it for free?" asks Homer at the movie's start. Naturally, all the trouble starts with him. When he adopts a pig ("Sir Oinks-A-Lot") destined for Krusty's slaughterhouse, it triggers an environmental catastrophe, forcing the government to seal Springfield into a dome and destroy the city. While the family manages to escape and flee to Alaska, they eventually decide to return and help save the city in more-or-less classic Simpson fashion. As Homer's joke about the audience shows, Groening and producer Al Jean are keenly aware that their franchise is first and foremost a TV show. Maybe a little too aware, as the movie fails to ever rise above anything more than an extended episode, and not even one of its best episodes at that. True, there are plenty of good jokes; the animation has been kicked up a notch to be particularly sharp and detailed; and there are some truly memorable moments such as Bart's nude skateboard ride and the "Spider-Pig" song. But when the film finally materialized, the payoff for long years of anticipation turned out to be small as the movie failed to live up to its potential; it's amusing but not truly funny. The Simpsons Movie leaves the impression that maybe the show's writers and producers had already spent their best ideas on the best years of the TV show. Had it been made years earlier… well, we can only wonder what could have been. --Daniel Vancini

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Customer Reviews

The Simpsons Movie
Im a HUGE Simpsons fan, since the first episodes, seasons 4-11 were the best .

The movie is surprisingly good, i laughed a lot in the theather and every time i watch the dvd i laugh again, just like i do in the re-runs. I thought it would be a looong episode, but it turned out better.

The DVD is cool, i loved the menus, the video quality is great. The only thing i dont like is the American Idol extras, im tired of those...

And theres no Making of Documentary...

Everything else is good.

Still the best show on TV
The Simpsons was and still is the best show on TV period. Can't wait to see Season 11 and this Simpsons full length movie is awesome, very funny and has the magic of the old classic simpsons.

Title: Is it Juvenile...D-OH, YES! Is it beneath a well-adjusted Adult's Mentality...D-OH, YES! Is it lamebrained...D-OH, YES!!!
Ahhhhh...the Simpsons...I vividly remember watching the series on which this movie's based back when I was just another know-nothing, naïve and misdirected child/teenager. I used to loyally watch said series and never miss a weekly installment of it; I was what you'd call a "fan," what everyone who subserviently fawns about this movie and series is, too. However, some time after I hit 18 and legally became a man, something correspondingly occurred which instantly curbed my level of interest rightly away from the Simpsons. This "something" is called mental and emotional maturity, a blessing that comes with the onset of adulthood; as I became an adult, I starkly realized the epiphany that the Simpsons appeals to the lowest common denominator of society: immaturity, crudeness, and grossly redundant stupidity.

Frankly, the sickness that explains the worrisome and totally questionable interest of primarily adults in the Simpsons franchise is their monstrous lack of aforementioned adulthood!!!! The adults who still enjoy the Simpsons may want to re-examine their social conscience and take a page from my textbook by realizing that the Simpsons can truly only be enjoyed by kids/teens because at that age, one's brain is still puerile, therefore making it receptive to the low-minded elements of the Simpsons. For adults, I see no justification at all in enjoying the Simpsons, unless they admit to being unsophisticated, lowbrow and generally juvenile.

My thesis (in case you were too unobservant to identify it) is the Simpsons Movie and series are so profanely juvenile that only kids/teens should be watching it, and adults watching it are developmentally stunted. I'll now present concrete, inarguable examples from scenes in the film itself to support my thesis. This is how it's done in the adult's world. This way, you, the adult, Simpsons viewer will be forced to acknowledge how childish you are and forced to face your denial.

The Simpsons Movie wrongs the viewer on three levels: intelligence, decorum and originality, all of which tie into my opening paragraphs. Regarding intelligence, there's only so many times a normal, well-adjusted adult (not a child living in a man's or woman's body!) can take the shortcoming Simpsons jokes about Homer's chronic dumbness. For instance, as in Homer falling through the roof after preparing to hit Bart's fingers after Bart's rolled down the roof and wound up hanging from the gutter. Still, there's the part where Bart childishly fires a BB gun at Homer who's carrying bricks (so Jacka$$-like). Or, how about the eternally annoying line by that nuisance Nelson: "Ha-ha!?" All this is stupid, and if you're an adult and disagree, then you're so sophomoric that it's not even cute anymore!!!!

Regarding decorum, again, there's only so many times any sane, well-adjusted adult (man or woman) should be able to tolerate coarse references that are commonplace in Simpsons land. In example, Bart's caught drinking by Marge while in a motel, and he chugs down the whole bottle while being chased; the bus driver smokes pot from a bong upon thinking the end is near; and the town drunk, Barney, is dumped into the lake along with beer bottles, celebrating the unsophisticated joke that he's so inebriated, he's raiding even a stash of empty beer bottles. One would think that most adults would be able to proverbially sophisticate themselves to a point where lowlife jokes about drunkenness don't seem that sharp or funny anymore.

Regarding non-originality, well-adjusted adults shouldn't accept the redundancy of the characters/plot lines. Cletus being portrayed as a southern-sounding, slack-jawed hick/yokel which blatantly insinuates an attack on conservatives, as Groening glaringly sees red-staters like this; Homer the fata$$ imbecile who always screws up (in the movie's case by dumping toxic waste into the lake); Bart continuously being the troublemaker by committing mischief such as nude skateboarding; and jeering at organized religion (Grampa having a religious experience of ecstasy while at church) are all a derivative and boring rehashing of tangents seen on the TV show years ago. If you're over 18 and still entertained by this, you must have attention deficit disorder or something.

Another, equally indisputable implication against this film that proves my thesis of its profane juvenility is the overkill of unwholesomeness together with obscenities of a grade-school level. For instance, there's many references to slang terms for male genit*ls (wiener and doodle, slang terms for female mammary glands (b*obs), uses of "a$$," the word "cr*p," and even some G*damns just for sport. On the unwholesomeness side, fat kid Ralph is hoisted up a flagpole so we see his bare buttocks, two men kiss before rushing into a hotel room to flagrantly get busy in g*y sex (this occurs when Marge assumes two cops have arrived to catch her), and Homer sophomorically commenting, "More than two shakes and you're playing with yourself (relating to shaking off one's p*nis after urination)."

Bottom line and conclusion: I've now utterly substantiated my thesis that only kids/teens or puerile adults are ones who should naturally get gratification out of the Simpsons. If you're grown-up and defy this fact, you're likely developmentally retarded.