The Simpsons Movie on DVD

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Lilbosnian

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The whole essence of The Simpsons Movie was that it actually was a movie experience as opposed to a TV show.
On DVD,well you watch it on TV and many of the jokes in the movie about being 'at' the movies will be lost and ring hollow.
 
Theres not that many 'at the cinema' jokes. The one at the start "The biggest sucker", fox advert, and end credits, but thats it.

However I was a little disappointed with the lack of special features, 2 commentaries, trailers, deleted scenes.
 
Some of the cinema-only jokes still raised a smile with me. In terms of special features I suppose it would have been nice to have more - maybe some storyboarRAB or something like on the 'Season X' DVD releases - but I'm quite happy with what there was. The commentaries were good, and the deleted scenes were interesting enough as well.
 
One thing I'd love as a special feature but they've never done it (even on the Season boxsets) is footage of the voice actors recording their parts.
 
The cover is dreadful, i saw it in HMV today, and it didn't look any better than in the advertisments i see on the bus.

But the movie is so brilliant. Can't wait to get it from crimbo :D
 
I enjoyed the movie. Funnier than I thought it would be, but not amazing. Glad I bought it, but I don't really feel an urge to watch it again.
 
The way I feel too. I watched it kind of early *cough* and I was a little disappointed. Good move but not great. Like a wasted opportunity in a way.
 
it's finally arrived and the deleted scenes are sooo short, why they were not 'branched' is beyond me. as I suspected I found the film funnier on the tv than at the cinema, for one thing it's shown on the correct ratio. the prof. fink gag now works, when I saw it at the cinema, they had the Itchy and Scratchy short in widescreen as well, so at first I thought my dvd was faulty! over all it's a good 1 disc release, easily better thab the *cough* 2 disc veriosn of Casino Royale.
 
I just watched this last night and I have to admit it was funny second time round.

I started then watching it with the commentary on and loved listening to the ideas behind the scenes. Like how Marge was supposed to have the "vision" in the church and not Grampa. I can understand the reasoning behind changing it. :)

I enjoyed it and am glad I bought it :)
 
Just out of curiosity. Did anybody who got it on DVD pre order from woolies? I was supposed to get mine on thursday and I still not got it yet. (doesn't help that I kind of washed my order number in the machine and I could have checked the status online) :p
 
I was so very disappointed with this film.......it really is nothing more than an extended TV episode. I'm sure it's more to do with the fact that The Simpsons is on TV all the time and overfamiliarity has blunted whatever edge it once had but nothing about this film struck me as being biting or hard hitting satire...........the cover is terrible too!
 
The Simpsons Movie itself is brilliant - felt like a movie to me, but even if it felt like an "extended TV episode" it would be an "extended TV episode of the same quality as when the Simpsons was in its heyday".

But I was most disappointed with the deleted scenes. I'm sure Matt Groening said something along the lines of, they had cut enough material from the film to effectively make a second film, which I took to mean around 90 minutes of deleted scenes would appear on the DVD. Shame, then, that under 5 minutes' worth actually made it onto the DVD - does this mean there'll be another ("Special Edition") release a bit later on with all these extra scenes? Or, was the guy bullshitting?
 
Probably. This is 20th Century fox, so expect bucket loaRAB of re-releases.

I think the deleted scenes (with the exception of the old design for cargill) could have been fitted in.
 
The whole fun of seeing the movie in the cinema was actually seeing The Simpsons on the big screen and also the laughing along with an audience. It was a good night out at the movies.
Getting it at home and on DVD and, especially watching alone, it definitely loses the movie magic.
 
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