Quite frankly, I thought this movie sucked.
Everything this movie has with a few notable exemptions has already been done in the TV series.
The family abandoning Homer, Springfield on the brink of extinction, Bart wanting a different father figure, Lisa finding a boyfriend, it's all just been done.
It offers NOTHING ground breaking or original the South Park and Beavis and Butt-head movies did.
Heck, Simpsons in general has sucked since 2000 when they switched the central character from Bart to Homer. Or maybe it had something to do with Conan O'Brien being the writer.
Anyway, when it was centered around Bart, it had a nice controversy twist to it. Bart was a defining "American icon" of some sort. The Simpsons even though a lot of kids 10 years ago were not allowed to watch it, provided good morals in a reverse psychology twist. Bart would do something bad, but would learn his lesson the hard way.
Now it's Homer acting stupid all the frickin' time and it's implied he should learn his lessons but he doesn't and that is supposed to make it funny. But to me, I just don't buy it. Homer's character was just changed after that as well. Even though he was stupid to begin with, he still took his role as a father and a family man with seriousness. He still had a certain balance. Like, he stuck with his decision with Bart not being allowed to see the Itchy and Scratchy movie. He still had convictions.
The first, last, and only time stupid humor could ever work was with Beavis and Butt-Head. It was meant to be a satire on teenagers in general. The humor worked because of the way the characters were built. Beavis and Butt-Head are orphans and really have no formal guidance which makes them oblivious to their surroundings and to the world around them which is why the stupidity worked in my view.
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