Coming To A TVMovie Screen Near You

SimpsonsFor some years they’ve been talking about doing a full-scale motion picture of The Simpsons.

Word has been, though, that they wouldn’t do it until the TV series wraps.

But the TV series has proven far more resilient than anybody imagined. Heading into its 17th season this fall, the series has become The Series That Wouldn’t Die.

Kinda helps a show stay fresh when the premise is as wide-open and unbound to conventions of realism as The Simpsons is, I guess. (I mean, the show may not be as fresh as the immortal Season 5, but can you even imagine how stale a typical sit-com would be in its 16th year? . . . Brrrrrr!)

So the movie-delayers finally threw in the towel and The Simpsons theatrical movie is now in production!

YEE-HAW!–I mean–WOO-HOO!

GET THE STORY.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

13 thoughts on “Coming To A TVMovie Screen Near You”

  1. I am not sure how well it will translate to the big screen, but I am a HUGE Simpson’s fan (to the point that when I got married a three weeks ago we had Homer and Marge as our cake topper…mmm…cake topper…) and will be in line early to see.

  2. I only hope that story line I read about a couple of years ago will be different. The movie is supposed to be set into the “future” when Bart is a teenager and revolves around him losing his virginity.
    Doh!

  3. I hope this is PG rated so that my children can watch it with me at the movies (though by the time we get it over here they could be adults anyway :D)…which hopefully would mean it’s content has nothing to do with Bart being sexually immoral.
    God Bless.

  4. I hope this is PG rated so that my children can watch it with me at the movies (though by the time we get it over here they could be adults anyway :D)…which hopefully would mean it’s content has nothing to do with Bart being sexually immoral.
    I hope parents don’t complain if it isn’t PG-rated. But I know what you’re saying and there’s nothing wrong with hoping.
    What gets me is when parents complain about movies *not* being PG-rated just because they are cartoons or fantasy-themed. Latest example is Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith — Parents had no problem with Burger King’s artery-clogging menu as long as it was PG-rated. But the crappy “food” is okay as long as Lucas would have made the movie PG. *boggle*
    Something’s wrong with the priorities there. Right back at them, I say.
    We 30-40 year-olds wanted an intense finale to the last Star Wars–the end-all SW movie–and it would have been ever-so-disappointing if they’d have “Didney-ized” it For The Children.
    But yea, I didn’t miss your point. It would be nice if they could make a Simpsons movie that you can watch together as a family.
    I just don’t think Revenge of the Sith would have worked at all if they would have bowed to the wacko parent groups who want to make *everything* child-friendly and who have made the word “adult” equivalent to “sex-oriented”. Adult parties used to mean, “No kids around”. These days it means “orgies”.
    Keep the kids at home and tell them you’ll rent the last SW DVD when they’re older. Just, please parents, remember that there are other people besides children in the world 😉
    Wackos having a tissy fit over Burger King kids menus being associated with a PG-13 movie–just silly, in my opinion. 1.) You can control what your kids watch and 2.) You can just not eat at BK. If your kids have fits because they can’t get a Junior Cheese Whopper or whatever, then take them to Wendy’s where they make REAL hamburgers, 🙂 (Really, your kids are not that stupid.)
    This wasn’t directed at the parent above my post at all. I know what she’s saying. I just wanted to add something related, but tangential, because it’s been on my mind lately. No harm meant 😉

  5. Burger King DOES NOT deserve to be repeated slandered. I think they are the BEST of fast food burgers. If YOU (Lurker) don’t like it why do you go there? Surely it would be easier for you to simply not go than rant about them?
    I think the point was that when Burger King did the Star Wars publicity stuff in the 70’s and early 80’s they were not part of the kid’s meals, but were more general promotionals. I see not problem in separating kid stuff from the adult stuff. as even you acknowledge.

  6. [quote]Kinda helps a show stay fresh when the premise is as wide-open and unbound to conventions of realism as The Simpsons is, I guess. [/quote]
    Fresh? The show is perilously close to jumping the shark if it hasn’t already. Let it die a mericful death…and bring on the big screen version!

  7. You got my point all wrong. :-/ You missed the whole wacko parent thing, which was really my point. BK is, well, BK, but my point is that it’s *ironic* that parents are okay with fast food as long as it has a PG-rating.
    Why do I go there, you ask? Who said I went there? 😉

  8. Well, alright, then. We agree. The Burger King rules!
    mmmm….Burrgggerrrrrssss!

  9. It’s good. I like the onion rings for sure. I do prefer Wendy’s though. [What a waste of space in Jimmy’s blog!]. In Europe I don’t have Wendy’s and I actually dream about Wendy’s’ burger/chili about once per month. (I’m honestly not kidding). That’s why I made the Wendy’s comment 🙂
    So sorry, Jimmy. At least we kept it short 🙂

  10. I watched the Simpson’s for a number of years before finally deciding to quit watching. For me, it was similar to Seinfeld and Friends in that it was often very funny but also would have things in it that were crude or at least not uplifting.
    I realize it is intended to be humorous and satirical, but I got tired of watching disrespectful Bart, environmentalist Lisa, and dumb, slobby Homer portrayed as a family. It seems like there are enough live-people sitcoms that basically imitate the Simpson’s in somewhat more realistic settings. The husband is dumb and drinks lots of beer and always wants to watch sports, largely ignoring his wife and children, and the wife is long-suffering but constantly annoyed with him and insults him a lot.

  11. I see no problem with having pg-13 movies attached to kids meals. (which I never buy because they don’t fill up the kids, they are junk and they are too expensive.) Often with a good story The big people see the movie, tell the too-young-to-see crowd the story without the pg 13 parts, and tell them we’ll rent it when they’re older. meanwhile they have fun playing with the toys (which their cousins got in kids meals and then left at grandmas.) Everybody’s happy.

  12. If this movie had come maybe ten years earlier, it might be worth seeing. But IMHO, the Simpsons ceased to be even mildly amusing a long time ago (in a galaxy far away…)
    Still, it is interesting to hear. I wonder what the plot will be about?

  13. The reason the Simpsons is still on the air is, I think, because of new fans that aren’t aware of the fact that a lot of the material is repeat, and of how much better done the early stuff is.
    That said, I think we long-time fans have been spoiled by early Simpsons episodes. If you watch the newer ones without comparing to the older ones, you still get more gut laughs out of one episode of the Simpsons than any three other sitcoms still making new seasons.
    My favorite recent line/scene: “If you ever wanted to see a mailbox shoot a boy, that’s about as close as you’re gonna get!”

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