The Simpsons Movie

In the evening, Anisha and I went to see The Simpson's Movie. I found it to be a very funny movie. I did notice however, the reuse of some obviously successful components from the TV series we love.

Below is a brief description of some of the more major events that occurred in the movie.

The film begins with a concert performed by Green Day on Lake Springfield. After playing for a number of hours, they begin to speak about the environment. This immediately angers the crowd, who pelt the band with rubbish and bottles. The barge that Green Day are playing on eventually sinks, and they are presumed drowned.

The next day, the Simpson's family are attending church. During the service, Grampa Simpson is possessed by God and warns the city of a future disaster. He is whisked away quickly by the Simpson's family, after being wrapped up in the churches rug.

The story evolves around the pollution of a Lake Springfield. Lisa Simpson brings to the attention of the town the risk of contaminating the lake. The Mayor responds by banning dumping in the lake, and erecting various deterrent's to potential illegal dumpers.

At the time, Homer Simpson is in the possession of a new pet pig (Spider-Pig/Harry Plopper). Homer adopts this pig as it runs from Krusty the Clown after use in a Krusty commercial. The pig is destined to by destroyed after the commercial is complete. Now Homers new friend, This animal tends to cause a large amount of waste, which Homer has stored in an overflowing silo in his yard (Homer admits that some of the waste is his own). Homer also appears to be giving more attention to his new pet then his own son Bart.

After Marge Simpson's demands disposal of the pig poo, Homer is finally convinced to take it to a waste processing site for proper disposal. Unfortunately, he is distracted by a phone call from a friend (Lenny) who tells him that his favourite donut shop (Lard Lad Donuts) has been shut down and is giving out free donuts.

As there is quite a line at the disposal station, Homer becomes impatient and dumps his waste into Lake Springfield. This results in a number of ecological anomalies, such as a squirrel developing a dozen eyes after having immediate contact with the contaminated water.

During this time, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) finds out about the contamination, and places a large impenetrable dome around the entirety of Springfield. Nobody can enter, and nobody can exit. The EPA in its infinite wisdom decides to wipe Springfield off the map. This includes taking it off the map, and advertising it as the next Grand Canyon (Thanks to Tom Hanks).

The town finds out that Homer is responsible and wishes to crucify him for his crime. The Simpson family escapes through a sink hole in their backyard which takes them outside the dome. The Simpson family home falls into the sink hole behind them and is destroyed. The Simpson's family escape to Alaska to make a new start.

The Simpson's are now poor, with very little money. Homer wins a truck by performing a full-circle on a motorbike within a globe (Ball of Death) at a carnival. He will perform this again in an even more spectacular function later in the movie.

In Alaska, Marge and Homer have a fallout as Marge wants to help Springfield and Homer does not. This eventuates in Marge leaving Homer to try and return to Springfield.

Homer becomes frantic and starts looking for Marge, but falls asleep in the middle of the snow. The next morning a polar bear tries to attack him but a mysterious person dressed in Native American clothing wards it off and drags Homer to her tent.

When he is revived the stranger, revealed to be a woman with enormously sized breasts, tells him that he must reach an epiphany or he is doomed to spend the remainder of his days alone. He soon has a mysterious vision where he is tortured by a forest of trees and reaches an epiphany. He thanks the lady, and sets off to find the family.

At around the same time, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart are caught by the EPA who have a warrant out for their arrest (A Tip off from the NSA). They are released in the centre of Springfield after a failed attempt by Homer to break them free.

The EPA decides as a final solution (With the assistance of President Schwarzenegger), that they will destroy Springfield with a small but powerful explosive device. The device is lowered into Springfield. The bomb has a timer on it.

Homer returns to Springfield by entering a small hole at the top of the dome which was used to place the bomb into the town.

Eventually, with the assistance of Bart, Homer performs an impossible acrobatic stunt and Bart throws the bomb out of the gap at the top of the dome. The bomb explodes, shattering the dome. No injury is afforded to anyone, except Doctor Nick who appears to be severely injured by a large piece of the dome landing on his midsection.

As a final desperate act, Russ Cargill (In charge of the EPA), threatens to shoot Homer and Bart. They are saved when Maggie pushes a rock on to him, causing him to be knocked-out.

The town praises Homer for his efforts, and rebuild Springfield. We witness the Simpson's house being rebuilt. All is well.

There are multiple more subplots including Lisa meeting a new boyfriend (an Irish boy named Colin), a dare between Homer and Bart that results in Bart skateboarding naked to Krusty Burger. There is a loss of belonging for Bart towards his father, and the bonding between Bart and his neighbour Mr Flanders.

Useless Information: During the Middle Ages, few people were able to read or write. The clergy were virtually the only ones that could.