Simpsons on the Silver Screen

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Matt Groening is going to actually go through with it. This article says that the cast of the Simpsons has signed on for at least 3 feature films. Hooray!" I hope they call them Episodes 4, 5 and 6.

Comments

Will they even be good?

[mcarbone]

Let's hope that the writers of the feature films are those that wrote during the Golden Age of The Simpsons (Seasons 3 - 7 give or take). Honestly, if the style and quality of the movie is at all similar to the show in the past few years, I'm not sure I'd be able to sit through the whole thing. Even the writers and producers admit on the Season 2 DVD commentary tracks that Simpsons today is a little bit more low brow, hyperactive and random, and with a lot less character and plot.

Maybe some of you like this Family Guy-like style, but I think it has degraded an amazingly intelligent funny show to just an occasional funny show (I won't be a jerk and try to state that it's not funny anymore). Nevertheless, I hope the producers and writers consider these films more seriously than the show as it now stands, as I would love a great Simpsons movie. Otherwise, I'll just have to stick with Futurama (almost as good as the Simpsons when they were great, but not quite).

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[freakinPsycho]

Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?

Probably they can. And while this may not be the best example, look at Beavis and Butthead do America. While it wasn't anything that could be called great film, it was amusing and true to the original show.

I think Simpsons can do something similar and be just fine.

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[ciurana]

I have watched the simpsons for years, how long have they been on exactly? I can remember seeing episodes even when I was a kid.

If you can't remember when The Simpsons started, then you still are a kid.

Cheers!