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The Simpsons Movie
Directed by David Silverman
Produced by James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Al Jean
Mike Scully
Richard Sakai
Written by James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Al Jean
Ian Maxtone-Graham
George Meyer
David Mirkin
Mike Reiss
Mike Scully
Matt Selman
John Swartzwelder
Jon Vitti
Starring Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer
Tress MacNeille
Pamela Hayden
Albert Brooks
Music by Hans Zimmer
Theme by:
Danny Elfman
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Running time 87 mins[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $75 million[2]
The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 animated comedy film based on the animated
television series The Simpsons, directed by David Silverman. The film was
produced by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, and
Richard Sakai and written by eleven of the television series' most prolific
writers: Scully, Jean, Brooks, Groening, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike
Reiss, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, Ian Maxtone-Graham, and Matt Selman. It
stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy
Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, and
Tress MacNeille and features Albert Brooks in a prominent guest role, as
well as Tom Hanks and Green Day in smaller ones.
After previous attempts to create a film version of The Simpsons had failed
because of script length and lack of staff, production began in 2001.
Numerous plot ideas were conceived by the writers, with Matt Groening's
being developed into the film. The script was re-written one hundred times,
continuing even after animation had begun. This meant that "two films'
worth" of finished material was cut, including cameos from Isla Fisher,
Minnie Driver, Erin Brockovich, and Kelsey Grammer. Tie-in promotions were
made with 7-Eleven, who transformed select stores into Kwik-E-Marts, and
other companies such as Burger King. The film premiered in Springfield,
Vermont, which won the right to hold it through a Fox competition.
Plot
Green Day is performing at Lake Springfield, where they fail to engage the
audience in talking about the environment. They are killed when the
pollution in the lake eats away at their vessel, causing it to sink. At the
funeral, Grampa has a vision of a great catastrophe to come, but only Marge
listens. Lisa and an Irish boy named Colin hold a seminar entitled "An
Irritating Truth", which convinces the town to successfully clean up the
lake. Meanwhile, Homer dares Bart to skateboard nude to Krusty Burger, but
Bart is caught by Chief Wiggum. Ned Flanders comforts Bart after being
humiliated, but Homer ignores him and adopts a pig. Homer keeps the pig's
waste in an overflowing silo, which horrifies Marge, who tells Homer to
dispose of it safely. While waiting in a line at the dump, Homer decides on
a quicker means of disposal and dumps the silo into the lake, causing it to
become heavily polluted. Nearby, Flanders and Bart bond during a hike and
discover a mutated squirrel, which is captured by the EPA. Russ Cargill,
head of the EPA, tells President Schwarzenegger that Springfield is
extremely polluted and the government must take drastic action. As a result,
the EPA places Springfield in a giant glass dome.
The police discover Homer's silo in the lake, and an angry mob approaches
the Simpsons' home and torches it. The family escapes the dome through a
sinkhole and flee to Alaska. Seeing the dome begin to crack and realizing
the inevitable escape of the people of Springfield, Russ Cargill manipulates
the President into deciding to destroy the town. While enjoying life in
Alaska, the Simpsons see an advertisement promoting a new Grand Canyon, to
be located where Springfield is. Marge and the kids decide that they must
save the town, but Homer refuses to help the town that tried to kill him,
leading to his family abandoning and leaving for Springfield. After a visit
with a mysterious Inuit shaman, Homer has a vision and reaches an epiphany:
to save himself and his family he must save Springfield. Meanwhile, Marge,
Lisa, Maggie, and Bart are captured by Cargill and returned to the town.
Cargill appears and tells the people of Springfield that the town will be
destroyed. A helicopter arrives and opens a hole at the top of the dome,
lowering down a bomb. Homer climbs the dome and descends, knocking the
escaping townspeople and bomb off the rope. Homer notices a motorcycle,
grabs Bart, and cycles up the side of the dome. Bart throws the bomb through
the hole, detonating it and shattering the dome. The town praises Homer, who
rides off with Marge on the motorbike into the sunset. The film ends with
everyone restoring Springfield, including the Simpsons' house, back to the
way things were.
Production
"We're going to put some fake plots out there, just to make it interesting."
— James L. Brooks[3]
The production staff of The Simpsons had entertained the thought of a film
since early in the series, but things never came together. Groening felt a
feature length film would allow them to increase the scale and animate
sequences too complex for a TV series.[4] The season 4 episode "Kamp Krusty"
was originally going to be a film, but difficulties were encountered in
writing a movie length script, at which point the movie plans were dropped
in favor of a season premiere.[5] For a long time the project was held up.
There was trouble finding a story that was right for a film, and the crew
did not have enough time to complete a film project, as they already worked
full time year-round on the show.[6] Groening expressed a wish to make
Simpstasia, a parody of Fantasia, which was never produced partly because it
would have been too difficult to write a feature-length script.[7] Before
his death, Phil Hartman wished to make a live action Troy McClure film, and
several of the staff said they would have loved to make it.[8]
The voice cast was finally signed on to do the film in 2001,[9] and work
then began on the script.[10] Groening and Brooks invited back Mike Scully
and Al Jean (who continued to work as showrunner on the television series)
to produce the film with them.[11] They then signed David Silverman, who in
anticipation of the project had quit his job at Pixar, to direct.[11] The
"strongest possible" writing team was assembled, with many of the writers
from the show's early seasons being chosen for the film.[12] David Mirkin,
Mike Reiss, George Meyer, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti were selected. Ian
Maxtone-Graham and Matt Selman joined later. Brooks, Groening, Scully, and
Jean also wrote parts of the script.[12] Sam Simon did not return having
left the show over creative differences in 1993, nor did Conan O'Brien, who
wanted to work with the Simpsons staff again. O'Brien joked, "Truth be told,
I worry that the Simpsons-writing portion of my brain has been destroyed
after 14 years of talking to Lindsay Lohan and that guy from One Tree Hill,
so maybe it's all for the best."[13] The same went for Brad Bird who
"entertained fantasies of asking if [he] could work on the movie", but did
not have enough time because of work on Ratatouille.[9] The producers
arranged a deal with Fox that meant they could abandon production at any
point if "they weren't satisfied with the results."[14]
Work continued on the screenplay from 2003 onwards and did not cease,[14]
taking place in the small bungalow where Matt Groening first pitched The
Simpsons in 1987.[15] The writers spent six months discussing a plot,[16]
and pitched a "half-assed" idea;[15] Al Jean suggested the family rescue
manatees, which became the 2005 episode "Bonfire of the Manatees", and there
was The Truman Show-esque notion of the characters discovering their lives
were a TV show, which Groening rejected as he felt "that the Simpsons never
become aware of themselves as celebrities."[9] Groening read about a town
that had to get rid of pig feces in their water supply, which inspired the
plot of the film.[11] Having eventually decided on the basic outline for the
film, the writers then separated it into seven sections. Jean, Scully,
Reiss, Swartzwelder, Vitti, Mirkin, and Meyer wrote twenty five pages each,
with the group meeting one month later to merge the seven sections in to one
"very rough draft."[12] The writers wrote the script in a way that they
almost always employed when writing the television series, sitting around a
table and pitching ideas, trying to make each other laugh.[14] Groening
described his desire to also make the film dramatically stronger than a TV
episode, as "we wanna really give you something that you haven't seen
before. There are moments you actually forget that you're watching a cartoon
and that is difficult when you have characters as ugly as the Simpsons."[17]
The script went through one hundred revisions.[16]
The film was originally planned for release in summer 2006,[18] but Al Jean
stated at San Diego's Comic-Con International 2004 that the producers were
taking their time, to make sure that the film was perfect.[19] In 2005,
Nancy Cartwright told BBC Radio 1 that the cast had done their first table
reading,[20] and two more followed.[21] Groening also intended the film to
be made after the show ended, "but that intention was undone by good
ratings."[21] The producers were initially worried that creating a film
would have negative effects on the series, as they did not have enough
manpower to focus their attention on both projects. As the series
progressed, more writers and animators were hired so that both the show and
the film could be produced at the same time.[12] Twentieth Century Fox
finally confirmed on April 1, 2006 that The Simpsons Movie would be produced
for a worldwide release date on July 27, 2007.[22] To prevent the leaking of
spoilers the film's plot was kept a secret,[23] with the script kept under
lock-and-key.[12] In tribute to Return of the Jedi's codename "Blue
Harvest", the film was dubbed "Yellow Harvest",[11] which was the name that
the film was registered under in the United States Copyright Database.[24]
Little information on the plot was released in weeks building up to the
film's release. Groening noted, "I can't imagine people look in the TV
section of the newspaper and think, 'I'll watch this week's Simpsons because
I like the plot.' You just tune in and see what happens."[9]
Casting
As inspiration for the crowd scene in the film, the production staff spent a
long time looking at the Simpsons poster that features over 320 of the
show's characters.[25] Groening said that they did try to put every single
character into the film, with 98 having speaking parts.[11] The series
regulars Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith,
Hank Azaria, and Harry Shearer, and semi-regular performers Marcia Wallace,
Pamela Hayden, and Tress MacNeille reprised their roles.[21] Joe Mantegna
returned as Fat Tony,[26] while Albert Brooks, who supplied many guest
voices in episodes, was hired as Russ Cargill,[12] the film's villain.[27]
The cast began recording every week from June 2006 onwards,[28] with James
L. Brooks directing them for the first time since the television show's
early seasons. Castellaneta described the recording sessions as "much more
intense" than recording the television series, with them participating in
"20 or more" sessions, and more emotionally dramatic than the TV series.[29]
Green Day played themselves in the film.[30] Nancy Cartwright said that she
was not there the day Green Day recorded their part, with Yeardley Smith
admitting that she did not even know the group appeared in the film until
she was told by MTV.[30] Groening called Green Day "really nice guys" and
"really good sports", while Hank Azaria as Moe had the chance to "yell out
obnoxious stuff" at them.[30] Groening revealed that a "very big star" would
feature in a secret cameo role,[31] who was later announced to be Tom
Hanks.[32] Minnie Driver recorded the part of a patronizing grievance
counselor in a scene that ended up being cut.[33] Driver found recording her
part "the funniest afternoon of her career",[34] and was saddened when she
was told it was cut, but she was not angry with Brooks or Groening.[33] Isla
Fisher and Erin Brockovich also recorded cameos, but were cut as well.[11]
Kelsey Grammer also recorded a few lines for Sideshow Bob,[35] but he did
not appear in the final cut.[36] Although he does not provide the voice,
Arnold Schwarzenegger is President of the United States in the film. He was
chosen ahead of the incumbent President George W. Bush as "in two years
that'd mean the film [would be] out of date."[16] This idea was met with
nervousness, as Brooks noted "[Schwarzenegger's] opinion polls were way
down, so we were sweating whether he'd make a political comeback, so it was
great when he did."[4]
Animation
The film was animated at four different studios around the world: Film Roman
in Burbank, CA; Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, CA; and AKOM and Rough
Draft Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Like the television series, the
storyboarding, character and background layout, and animatic part of
production was done in America at Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios, with
the overseas studios completing the inbetweening and digital ink and paint
process.[36] In addition to Silverman's directing, sequence directors Mike
B. Anderson, Lauren MacMullan, Rich Moore, and Steven Dean Moore each
directed roughly a quarter of the film. Gregg Vanzo directed the 3D
sequences.[36]
Animation for the film began in January 2006.[11] Groening rejected making
either a live action or a CGI film,[15] describing the film's animation as
being "deliberately imperfect", and "a tribute to the art of hand-drawn
animation, which is basically disappearing."[37] The film was animated in a
wider 2.39:1 aspect ratio than the television series,[12] and colored with
the largest palette the animators ever had available to them.[4] Unlike the
TV series, the characters have shadows.[14] David Silverman said that unlike
the TV series where "you've got to pick and choose", the film allowed the
opportunity to "lavish that attention with every single scene that we
do."[14] Silverman and the animators looked to The Incredibles, Triplets of
Belleville, and Bad Day at Black Rock for inspiration as they were "a great
education in staging because of how the characters are placed".[14] They
also looked at Dumbo and the Pluto cartoon Pluto's Judgement Day for a dream
sequence.[15]
Although most animated films cannot make any changes to the story for budget
reasons,[9] The Simpsons Movie crew continued to keep playing with their
film even into 2007. James L. Brooks noted, "We saw a trailer the other day,
and somebody said 70 percent of the things in it - based on where we were
eight weeks ago - are no longer in the movie, because we keep on fooling
around."[25] Various new characters were created, who were cut as they
didn't contribute much.[9] Further changes were made after a March 2007
preview screening of the film in Portland, Oregon, including the deletion of
Kang and Kodos heavily criticizing the film during the end credits.[11] The
"Spider-Pig" gag was a late addition, and one scene excised had Homer
running away with a barbecue rod impaled in him.[4] Other deletions included
Homer's encounter with a "sausage man", and a scene at the end with Plopper.[38]
A large amount of material, which Groening described as being "probably
enough for two more movies", will be included on the film's DVD release.[15]
Several elements of the film will be permanently transferred across to the
television series.[15]
Music
Main article: The Simpsons Movie: The Music
Hans Zimmer was selected to compose the score for the film, with him
composing for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End simultaneously. He
told The Hollywood Reporter that he liked "using all his creative juices at
once."[39] Brooks chose Zimmer, as the pair were good friends and had worked
together on Brooks' previous films.[40] Zimmer expressed that the score was
a "unique challenge", stating "I had to try and express the style of The
Simpsons without wearing the audience out with too much attitude."[41] He
used "tiny fragments" of Danny Elfman's original opening theme, to coincide
with his original music, and gave each of the main characters their own
themes.[40] In addition to their appearance in the film, Green Day recorded
their own version of the theme song of The Simpsons, releasing it as a
single.[42]
Themes
"They are big themes, especially the environmental theme, but we always like
to approach it from both sides, so later in the film when Lisa's giving a
lecture about the pollution, the label of the lecture is An Irritating
Truth."
— Al Jean[43]
Al Jean described the film's message as being "a man should listen to his
wife." In addition, the film parodies the two major contemporary concerns of
religion and environmentalism.[44] The environment is present in Homer's
polluting of Lake Springfield, Green Day's cameo, and Lisa's romance. The
villainous Russ Cargill, voiced by Albert Brooks, is head of the EPA.[11]
Religion is focused on in Grampa's momentary possession, and Marge believing
what he said to be a message from God. The agnostic Groening joked the film
"posit[s] the existence of a very active God," when asked if it was likely
to offend.[44][45]
Marketing
Further information: 7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart promotion
A teaser trailer for the film was attached to the film Ice Age: The Meltdown
from March 31, 2006 onwards; the same trailer was then broadcast during the
April 2, 2006 episode of The Simpsons, "Million Dollar Abie".[46][47] A
1˝-minute-long trailer was then shown on November 12, 2006, immediately
after the second act of The Simpsons episode "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)".[48]
Another 1˝-minute trailer appeared on The Sun newspaper's website on
December 11, 2006.[49] The next trailer was shown during The Simpsons
episode "Springfield Up" on February 18, 2007, and was made available online
shortly afterwards.[50][51] The final theatrical trailer was released
through Yahoo! Movies on June 21, 2007.[52] In addition, two clips were
shown to audiences during a The Simpsons panel at Comic-Con 2006,[53] and
another animatic was included on The Simpsons: The Complete Ninth Season DVD
boxset.[54]
McFarlane Toys released a line of action figures based on the film,
including Ned Flanders and Bart looking over a rock at a character that was
covered by a "Top Secret Character" logo.[55] The hidden character was later
revealed to be the mutated squirrel Bart and Ned find at Lake
Springfield.[56] Others include Bart skateboarding naked having been dared
by Sherri & Terri (an event that is different in the film), Homer with
Plopper, and Itchy & Scratchy in "Presidential Politics". Also a series of
"movie mayhem" figures, depicting the family in a movie theater, were
released.[57] A video game entitled The Simpsons Game has been announced by
EA Games,[58] and it will be released to coincide with the film's DVD
release in the fall.[59] EA expects the game to become the highest selling
game of the year.[60]
Eleven 7-Eleven stores in the United States and one in Canada were
transformed into Kwik-E-Marts.[61] These twelve stores, as well as the
majority of other North American 7-Elevens will sell "Squishees" (Slurpees
in collectors cups), "Buzz Cola", "Krusty-O's" Cereal, "Pink Movie Donuts",
and other Simpsons-themed merchandise.[62][63] The promotion resulted in a
30% increase in profits for the altered 7-Eleven stores.[64] In Dorset an
image of Homer was painted next to the Cerne Abbas giant, causing outrage
amongst local Pagans who performed "rain magic" to see it be washed
away.[65] Homer himself later performed a special animated opening monologue
for the July 24, 2007 edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as part of
another promotion.[66]
Samsung released a Simpsons Movie phone,[67] and Microsoft released a
limited edition Simpsons Movie Xbox 360.[68] Ben & Jerry's released a The
Simpsons themed beer and donut flavored ice-cream, entitled "Duff & D'oh-Nuts".[69]
Other merchandise included a The Simpsons Movie coffee mug and a
donut-shaped stress reliever,[70] as well as a badge pack.[71] Online users
were presented with the opportunity to download free animated and static
content for use within their Windows Live Messenger conversations.[72]
Burger King, JetBlue Airways, and Vans also have tie-in deals to promote the
film.[64] Burger King produced a line of The Simpsons toy figures that were
given away with children's meals, and ran a series of Simpsons themed
television adverts.[64] JetBlue held a series of online sweepstakes with the
top prize being a trip to the film's Los Angeles premiere; also, their
plane's inflight entertainment system included a channel dedicated to The
Simpsons.[73] Promotions occurred around the world, including the village of
Springfield in Canterbury, New Zealand who were awarded a "giant pink donut"
for being named Springfield.[74]
Release
The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for
"irreverent humor throughout".[75] The rating had been expected by the
production staff.[10] However, the British Board of Film Classification
passed the film as a PG with no cuts made.[1] A BBFC spokeswoman said of
Bart's very brief nude scene that "natural nudity with no sexual content is
acceptable in PG films."[76] The film was released worldwide on July 27,
2007. The British release was initially moved a day forward to July 26,
2007,[77] only to then be moved a further day to July 25, 2007.[78]
Fox held a competition between sixteen Springfields across the United States
to host the American premiere,[79] with Springfield, Minnesota dropping out
on May 31, 2007.[80] Each Springfield produced a film, explaining why their
town should host the premiere, with the results being decided via a vote on
the USA Today website.[81] The winner was announced to be Springfield,
Vermont on July 10, 2007, who hosted the "yellow carpet" world premiere of
the film on July 21, 2007.[82] Each of the other fourteen entrants held
their own smaller screenings of the film on July 26, 2007.[81]
Before its release, the film received a nomination in the category "Best
Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet" at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, but it lost
to Transformers.[83] The film's trailer won a Golden Trailer Award in the
category "Best Animated/Family Film Trailer" at the 8th Annual Golden
Trailer Awards.[84]
Box office performance
The film took $29.1 million on its opening day in the United States, the
eighteenth highest grossing opening day of all time, and third highest
non-sequel opening of all time.[85] It grossed a combined total of $74
million in its opening weekend, taking it to the top of the box office,[86]
and making it the fifth highest opening weekend for a July release ever, and
highest July opening for a non-sequel,[87] thus outperforming the
expectation of $40 million that Fox had for the release.[88] It opened at
the top of the international box office taking $96 million from 71 overseas
territories, including $27.8 million in the United Kingdom, Fox's second
highest opening ever in the country.[89] It set several American box office
records, including the record for highest grossing opening weekend for a
non-CG animated film, surpassing The Lion King; the record for highest
grossing opening weekend for a film based on a television series, surpassing
Mission Impossible II; and overall it had the third highest grossing opening
weekend for an animated film, behind Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.[90]
Critical reaction
The film currently holds a 89% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rotten
Tomatoes,[91] and a rating of 81 out of 100 (signifying "universal acclaim")
at Metacritic.[92] Both The Guardian and The Times gave the film four out of
five stars. The Times' James Bone commented, "the film boasts the same sly
cultural references and flashes of brilliance that have earned the
television series a following that ranges from tots to comparative
literature PhDs,"[93] while The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw stated that "The
Simpsons Movie gives you everything you could possibly want, and maybe it's
a victim of its own gargantuan accomplishment. Eighty-five minutes is not
long enough to do justice to 17 years of comedy genius. It's still great
stuff."[94] Ed Gonzalez praised the film's political message, likening the
Itchy & Scratchy cartoon at the beginning to President Schwarzenegger's
situation later on, as well as praising the film's many sight gags.[95]
Randy Shulman gave strong praise of the cast who he described as having
"elevated their vocal work to a craft that goes way beyond simple line
readings," particularly Kavner who "gave what must be the most heartfelt
performance ever to find its way into a movie based on an irreverent
cartoon".[96] Roger Ebert although "not generally a fan of movies spun off
from TV animation", gave a positive review calling it a "radical and simple
at the same time, subversive and good-hearted, offensive without really
meaning to be."[97] Richard Corliss of Time decided that the film "was worth
waiting for" as "it doesn't try to be ruder or kinkier, just bigger and
better."[98]
USA Today movie critic Claudia Puig gave the movie 3-1/2 out of four stars,
noting the movie "does warrant a full-length feature, thanks to a clever
plot and non-stop irreverent humor", but noted that some fans may "miss
seeing their favorite characters, a few regulars are pared down, and others
don't show up at all."[99] Lisa Schwarzbaum also praised the voice cast but
noted that the "action sequences sometimes falter."[100] Patrick Kolan found
that the film was "easily the best stuff to come from the house of Simpson
since season 12 or 13" and praised the animation, but commented on the
"small and unfunny" appearances of characters such as Comic Book Guy and
Seymour Skinner.[101] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter praised the
film's good nature, stating the laughs "come in all sizes", although noting
that "little has been gained bringing the Simpsons to the screen."[102]
Variety's Brian Lowry called it "clever, irreverent, satirical and
outfitted" and that it was "just barely" capable of sustaining a longer plot
than a television episode.[103]
Empire reviewer Ian Nathan gave the film two stars, comparing it to New Coke
as "it utterly failed."[104] Phil Villarreal noted that there are "too few
laugh-worthy moments" and that "instead of stretching to new frontiers, the
film rests on the familiar."[105] Sheila Johnston of The Telegraph found
that "the overall momentum flags at times" as the film overstretches itself,
being "a salvo of comic squibs, some very funny, others limp,"[106] whilst
David Edwards wrote that "there's a great half-hour show rattling around in
here somewhere, but the rest is padding at its very dullest".[107] Cosmo
Landesman, stated that "the humour seems to have lost its satirical bite and
wit" and that "much of the comedy is structured around the idiocy of Homer,
which is a shame".[108] Bruce Newman criticized the fleeting appearances of
many of the show's secondary characters, finding the film "[not] a disaster,
just a disappointment."[109]
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