High-Quality Animation is What Makes the Simpsons Movie SpecialPaul Hogarthbyline‚ Jul. 30‚ 2007I’m a huge Simpsons fan, and have always been since the show first aired 17 years ago. So of course I went to see the Simpsons Movie this weekend on opening night. And not surprisingly, I loved it. It’s hard to do a feature length film based on a TV series – especially one that has been around for so long and has done every possible plot line imaginable – without just making it a very long episode. For it to succeed, you have to offer something different. The only movie that had ever pulled this off before was “South Park,” where the show’s creators turned it into a musical. What makes the Simpsons Movie better than the TV program is the superior animation – which has a 3-D like quality due to a higher digital resolution. And for that reason alone, you should go see it in the movie theatre. |