Is there a family in the media that has persisted as long as The Simpsons? Matt Groening’s Five People (and a Dog!) yellow weirdo family it has been going strong since 1989, as long as some of our parents have been married, if not alive. Depending on who you are, time hasn’t been all kind to the show, whose 34th season will presumably air in a couple of months. And in the case of your First and surprisingly singleY theatrical film, time has shown how eternal this show will be.
the simpsons movie released on July 27, 2007, and it’s a movie whose creators basically have the show scrambled in your DNA. Directed by veteran episode director David Silverman, its script came from 11 writers, all of them the Simpson veterinarians, including Groening, Mike Scully (showrunner for seasons 9-12) and Al Jean (showrunner for seasons 3, 4 and 13-33, and co-creator of cult classic cartoons The critic).
the way to this film was sooo long, and it is said that the idea of making a theatrical film was considered early in the show’s run. At that time, multiple ideas were considered, from a the tree house of terror anthology film to a live action film based on the late Phil Hartman’s infomercial actor troy mcclure. There were even attempts to make the season four episode “Kamp Krusty” into a movie, but ultimately none of them made it far for one reason or another. In 1997, 20th Century Fox finally green light film productionand the show’s voice cast signed on in 2001. As the series grew over the years, additional staff were hired so that both it and the film could be worked effectively in parallel.
For those who weren’t alive or seeing The Simpsons in the mid-2000s, the idea of it being made into a movie was a big deal at the time. It certainly wasn’t the first movie based on an animated series, but it was, and possibly still is.—the biggest animated series to make the leap to cinema. Cartoon giant companions at that time, Sponge Bob Square Pants Y powerpuff girls, both were theatrical and ended up on completely opposite ends of the box office spectrum: 2002 Movie The Powerpuff Girls was a bomb while 2004 spongebob movie it was such a hit that Nickelodeon reversed creator Stephen Hillenburg’s decision to have it serve as the series finale.
When the simpsons movie released, it earned a global box office of $536.4 million, and still stands as the second-highest-grossing animated film using traditional animation, behind only Disney The Lion King. (The one that people like.) Although would not continue to be nominated for an Academy Award, won a small handful of awardsincluding Best Comedy at the British Comedy Awards and Best Animation at the ITV National Movie Awards. And the critics who liked the film. Really he liked it, praising him for being indeed a comfortable, standard episode granted wwith a larger budget and longer execution time.
After all these years, it wouldn’t hurt to see a theatrical movie get as an end goal for western cartoons for fight for. It’s not that difficult for Japanese animation to ascend to a theatrical film, since shonen anime fans are well aware. But it remains a substantial hurdle that not many cartoons in the West have been able to dream of, let alone turn into reality.. Surely all of us have a caricature that we wish was big enough to become the same larger with a big screen adaptation, so we could see it flex its expanded budget inwarmer with our friends and fellow fans. The cartoons that have made the leap to cinema have usually done so through streaming or direct to DVD mattersand while those movies can be quite charming and funny in their own right, being brought to theaters medium something substantial.
In this regard, the simpsons movie is still unique. Its widespread appeal to both children and adults meant something in the past, and it probably still does now. i enjoyed the Bob’s Burgers when it came out a few months ago, but its existence is niche compared to that of the the Simpson. And it will probably be the only cartoon to be like that again. At least that’s true of the Fox cartoons: it seems doubtful that King of the hill it will reach the point of a movie if it returns, and Family man has too much cultural baggage behind it for a hypothetical movie to get more than an “Okay, I guess.”.”
Movies based on television shows can serve a dual purpose, either providing a (hopeful) new start or deliver the type of show and fun that can only be done if you allow yourself to break the original half-hour runtime of that program. the simpsons movie It is none; it is a victory lap for a brand that has only known victory. There was never any real danger of this movie being a bomb in 2007, it was too much of a cultural fixture and still is to this day. A movie was always on the cards, it was just a matter of when. If Fox and Groening hadn’t been so determined to make it happen, Disney probably wouldn’t have been long after the ink had dried.
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