The Simpsons Movie

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:21 pm

You guys are too hard to impress I guess, I find all these shows hilarious. I do agree that the new Simpsons blow though, as I said earlier, I don't even watch the reruns anymore because most are terrible ones from the newer season.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:16 pm

Senbei wrote:I just started watching South Park, now that it's on basic cable and not Comedy Central

Comedy Central is basic cable.

and can honestly say that it has utterly failed to capture my attention. I don't think I've ever laughed more than once during an episode, or been moved by any social, political, or any other kind of commentary. In truth, I've only seen a handful of episodes, but have no desire to give the show another chance to impress me.

Numerous cuts are applied to the syndicated version of the show, so I wouldn't make any judgments based on that.

VGJustice · Post by **VGJustice** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:05 pm

I'd love to add something to the conversation here, but due to my lack of any kind of television over the past 8 years, I don't really have any experience in exactly how bad the Simpsons got. Last I remembered, they sucked. If they've gone downhill from there, I can't imagine a movie about them being very funny.

Majestic Joey · Post by **Majestic Joey** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:16 pm

as far as cartoons go, southpark I think is the best. it's still funny as hell and they still have some sort of moral at the end of the episode.

Also anyone watch home movies? that show I thought was pretty funny. It was kind of inconsistent in blancing out the jokes though. but still it's pretty good.

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:48 pm

South park used to be awesome, but the whole Ã¢â‚¬Å“We are going to keep kenny dead for more than one episodeÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾ ruined it.

And the Simpsons used to be good but they have touched almost every topic, so what the hell could be the movie about?.

Homer Simpson having bad luck for a hour and a half, people arenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t going to notice its just parts of old episodes glued together.

Many movie parodies glued together, hey it worked for the first Ã¢â‚¬Å“Scary movieÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾!.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:04 pm

You get one punctuation mark at the end of the sentence, and only one.

Anyways, I'll have my pessimism in reserve for when the movie is actually released.

El Cernex · Post by **El Cernex** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:08 pm

The problem with South Park is that it already showed most, if not all, of it's potential. Right now, just like Crazy Pinguin said, the show "spents preaching some half-assed opinion on a topic that's usually been beaten to death elsewhere in the media". I don't remeber crealy, but I'm sure several early South Park episodes weren't like that.

Simpsons... well, you've said so yourselfs "First it was "weird", then it was funny, then was VERY FUNNY (peak), then was crap"... over here (Mesico), the show was a success thanks to the dubbing, as some lines had to be improvised (jokes about Gore or Bush aren't funny over here), and the voices actually WERE funny... unfortunantly, 3 seasons ago, all of the original actors went to syndicalization and, thanks to that, they fired ALL of them (made a really big fuzz over here) and hired new ones. It's fame declined after that.

Simpsons movie... hope it doesn't sucks all that much. That's all I can say (the spanish dubb is going to suck SO MUCH)

El Cernex

One Classy Bloke · Post by **One Classy Bloke** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:37 am

Here's hoping it'll be an epic journey and adventure, ala the Crayon Shin Chan movies.

jenkins · Post by **jenkins** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:27 pm

God Bless the little perv. I've been wishing since, like, 1993 that they would release Crayon Shin-Chan in English, but there's always that nagging thought in the back of my head, "you know how badly that could be fucked up." Too bad.

Where can I get my hands on the movies? And are translations of the manga available yet?

Tsuyoshi-kun · Post by **Tsuyoshi-kun** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:32 pm

Apparently Crayon Shin-chan has been picked up for English release by some company, according to this site;

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... php?id=540

The anime itself hasn't been shown in North America outside of Hawaii as far as I know, but I do know that the manga came over to the U.S.;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158899 ... oding=UTF8

One Classy Bloke · Post by **One Classy Bloke** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:15 pm

The show did come to America i believe, in a highly molested form, but still a bit more racey than most other shows. It eventually got pulled because it wasn't funny in the right ways. The Spanish version was damn good, as most spanish dubs tend to be.

As for the movies, animesuki has one (which is very good with a fantastic villian motivation), but i have yet to track down any others.

El Cernex · Post by **El Cernex** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:41 pm

One Classy Bloke wrote: The Spanish version was damn good, as most spanish dubs tend to be.

Damn right about that. Actually, if we DID get it, I wonder why so many people didn't...

Although, from what I have heard, the Spanish dub has a lot of japanese-jokes (lingo) material missing...

El Cernex

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:13 pm

I still enjoy South Park a lot, actually. I'd say that it's my favorite show on TV at the moment.

Arcade wrote:South park used to be awesome, but the whole Ã¢â‚¬Å“We are going to keep kenny dead for more than one episodeÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾ ruined it.

What? That is a very stupid thing to say.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:55 pm

He's correct, though. Not for that particular reason, however. It was at that exact moment that the tone of the show changed from madcap comedy to "let's make every episode about how we feel about whatever happened in politics in the last month". It's become a less funnier, animated version of the Daily Show.

One Classy Bloke · Post by **One Classy Bloke** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:23 am

The Daily Show is boring as hell and the jokes consist of shouting and swearing. If you want political satire, come to the uk.

Post by **Delphine** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:06 pm

The Daily Show has about a minute's worth of funny content every ten episodes.

Majestic Joey · Post by **Majestic Joey** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:01 pm

the thing I hate the most about living in the bay area is the daily show. I mean, every snobby kid watches that show and acts like they're better than everyone. All they really do is remind me why I hate being around people so much.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:19 pm

Zeta wrote:He's correct, though. Not for that particular reason, however. It was at that exact moment that the tone of the show changed from madcap comedy to "let's make every episode about how we feel about whatever happened in politics in the last month". It's become a less funnier, animated version of the Daily Show.

Uh, no.

South Park included social/political commentary in a good portion of the episodes before "Kenny Dies," which was the second-to-last episode of Season Five. It's been there pretty much since Season Two. Not all of the episodes since then have been commentary either, but I'm guessing you wouldn't know this because you probably don't watch the show.

Also you are wrong in saying that The Daily Show is funnier than anything.

Colbert Report, however, is an excellent programme.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:12 pm

While I do agree with PWB about South Park, I'm gonna have to say the follow up to last weeks episode, last night, totally blew. Thought I'd throw that out there.

plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:35 am

I missed it. I'm gonna go find a torrent or something.

Post by **Esrever** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:28 am

I actually thought the follow up was a lot better than the first half. Asside from the part where they actually parodied Family Guy directly -- which was brilliantly spot on -- the rest of the first episode was kind of laughless. But part two had the Cartman/Kyle battle, the manatees, the anti-American cartoon and that great part about the 1st amendment!

I like South Park OK, but there are some things about it that really irritate me. It especially bugs me when they take digs at celebrities with simplistic, outspoken political views... because I swear, no one has more simplistic, outspoken views that Trey and Matt. It's one of the preachiest shows on TV.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:18 pm

Another good point about the episode was that they were fair enough to make fun of their own show for getting "preachy and up its own ass with messages."

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:55 am

Every show that last to long ends losing bright, it happened to Ã¢â‚¬Å“The smurfsÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾, it happened to Ã¢â‚¬Å“PokemonÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾, it happened whith Ã¢â‚¬Å“The simpsonsÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾ and is happening whith Ã¢â‚¬Å“SouthparkÃ¢â‚¬ï¿¾.

Why Pokemon, the Simpsons and Southpark is still going? maybe because people got used to see those shows(Or in the case of pokemon, because it decended to the level Barney and teletubies fans like).

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:58 am

But Pokemon was mediocre to begin with, and the Smurfs always sucked.

James McGeachie · Post by **James McGeachie** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:02 pm

I'm afraid I'd say "mediocre" was far, far above Pokemon's level.