July 30, 2007
No D'ohs
On Friday our bosses took the whole office out to see The Simpsons Movie.
It was great. We laughed out loud continually through the whole movie. And not the bad kind of laugh out louds we endured during Spider-pig 3. Even our boss and the Head Writer of Frisky Dingo, Adam Reed, gave it his seal of approval. And that guy might be the toughest critic of comedy I've ever met.
It looks like The Simpson's Movie is doing quite well at the box office. Selling $168 million in tickets during the opening weekend. We didn't expect to hate the movie, and everybody knows the TV show isn't as good as it used to be. We were just surprised by how much this movie felt like the Simpson's of old.
Some friends and I tried to see it yesterday, but every last theater in Manhattan was packed to ridiculous levels with lines of people buying tickets for the shows three to four hours later.
Posted by: Rob at July 30, 2007 9:28 PMIt was the best movie I've seen all summer.
Posted by: Overdroid at July 31, 2007 1:51 AMgroening and james l. brooks were on charlie rose last night. they said they worked on the script for four years.
could be the reason it felt a little olde skool.
overdroid: be patient. coming soon, rush hour 3.
Posted by: ablebody at July 31, 2007 12:55 PMsaw it last night!
yep, pretty funny. and fairly tight. we were saying we would have liked to have seen a little more of the dynamics in the town, with the townsfolk after the dome went down, but that's nitpicking.
Tom Hanks! "Pls just leave me be."
Posted by: mary k at August 1, 2007 8:48 AM
