{"id":315,"date":"2007-08-01T13:49:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=315"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:18:48","slug":"the-simpsons-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"For years, lines have been drawn...and then colored in yellow.\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0462538\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Simpsons Movie<\/a> is proving pretty difficult to review without either running far too long or far too short. I could take forever talking about why the show is funny and why the movie is, or I could promise that if there was a time when you liked the show, you&#8217;ll like the movie, and only spend about a sentence. Neither of these is very palatable, and yet I&#8217;m mostly left without recourse. Because, even if I felt up to trying, who can explain humor? But to be clear, it was quite funny, and the humor was more apolitical than the show has been lately.<\/p>\n<p>Plotwise, it was a little boilerplate. Homer makes a mistake with far-reaching consequences, and must make amends with his family. It worked well here, but I&#8217;m a little tired of it nonetheless, since it&#8217;s been happening more than once per season on the actual show. Lisa has her eye on a boy and the environment, Bart is reconsidering his paternal-figure options, and Springfield is trapped under a giant, impenetrable dome. So, except for the dome, yeah, we&#8217;ve been here. But it was funny enough that I&#8217;m revisiting events in my head now as I type these words and giggling all over again, days later.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Spider-Pig! (The superhero, not a spider\/pig hybrid. Good God!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simpsons Movie is proving pretty difficult to review without either running far too long or far too short. I could take forever talking about why the show is funny and why the movie is, or I could promise that if there was a time when you liked the show, you&#8217;ll like the movie, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[609,420],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-animation","tag-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}