Just say ‘no’ to the d’oh
You couldn’t turn around this summer without seeing some kind of publicity for “The Simpsons Movie” — 7-11s turning into Kwik-E-Marts, make your own Simpson web sites, constant promotion on FOX, etc. — and it got a lot of people thinking: Is the movie worth seeing? Well, let me be the one to break it to you: the movie is just as bad as the TV show now. No wait, it’s worse…because it’s longer.
The original trailers for the movie used the line “…the movie 19 years in the making,” but after seeing it, it’s clear that the movie is actually about 15 years too late. Whatever charm, wit and relevance there was to be found in early “Simpsons” episodes is long gone. The show that was once socially relevant has reduced itself to inserting pointless, random pop culture references to try to trick people into thinking its current. Nonsensical references don’t make you relevant. They make you “Family Guy.”
Matt Groening once said he wants to keep “The Simpsons” going until he dies. In other news, I’m thinking of becoming an assassin.
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