Slight Simpsons Review

In short, the movie was well worth the wait. A few brief notes, none of which should cast an overly negative take on my appreciation of the flick:

1. Albert Brooks as the voice of the main protagonist. It lent a few too many easy comparisons to his voice work as Hank Scorpio in one of the better Simpsons episodes.

2. Danny Elfman. Why wasn't he put in charge of the soundtrack? I'm not even entirely sure how different the movie might have turned out if he had, but I'm just confessing my purist bias here. That's bias as an original viewer of The Simpsons from the Tracy Ullman Show, not as an Oingo Boingo purist.

3. Two moments in the movie (I won't spoil) woven in for no other reason than the fact they could do them in a movie, but not the TV show. It may sound prudish, but the way they were worked in just seemed overly and pointlessly gratuitous.

That aside, the movie was almost everything it was expected. Almost because I think it's impossible to live up to the hype that's been building on this front for over a decade now. The fact that there's 18 seasons in the can and various iterations of writing staff to give us both good and bad episodes over the years, and you get what you get.

One viewing down with my fellow clowns. I'm thinking it's worth at least 4 or 5 viewings on the big screen to pick up a few extra details.

SIDENOTE: Courtesy of Uber's return to Houston (and the fact that Houston lacks 7-11s), there's also the matter of the Buzz Cola. Predictably, it's just RC Cola. I'm not sure where one would go for a licensed soda beyond RC, but it would have been nice(r) to see them try something different.