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'''''The Simpsons Movie''''' is the only feature length film adaptation of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It is produced by Gracie Films for 20th Century Fox with animation produced by Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios and was released worldwide July 27 2007. The film has been produced by [[James L. Brooks]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Al Jean]], [[Mike Scully]], and [[Richard Sakai]] and has been written by eleven of the television series' most prolific writers: Scully, Jean, Brooks, Groening, [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]], [[George Meyer]], [[David Mirkin]], [[Mike Reiss]], [[Matt Selman]], [[John Swartzwelder]] and [[Jon Vitti]]. The film is directed by [[David Silverman]], a former ''Simpsons'' supervising director. The film stars the regular television cast of [[Dan Castellaneta]], [[Julie Kavner]], [[Nancy Cartwright (actress)|Nancy Cartwright]], [[Yeardley Smith]], [[Hank Azaria]], [[Harry Shearer]], [[Pamela Hayden]] and [[Tress MacNeille]].
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{{Quote|See our family. And feel better about yours.|The movie's tagline}}
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{{Movie
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|name = The Simpsons Movie
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|image = The Simpsons Movie.png
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|Directed By = [[David Silverman]]
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|Produced By = [[James L. Brooks]]<br>[[Matt Groening]]<br>[[Al Jean]]<br>[[Mike Scully]]<br>[[Richard Sakai]]
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|Written By = [[James L. Brooks]]<br> [[Matt Groening]]<br> [[Al Jean]]<br> [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]]<br> [[George Meyer]]<br> [[David Mirkin]]<br>[[Mike Reiss]]<br> [[Mike Scully]]<br> [[Matt Selman]]<br> [[John Swartzwelder]]<br> [[Jon Vitti]]
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|Starring = [[Dan Castellaneta]]<br>[[Julie Kavner]]<br>[[Nancy Cartwright]]<br>[[Yeardley Smith]]<br>[[Hank Azaria]]<br>[[Harry Shearer]]<br>[[Albert Brooks]]<br>[[Tress MacNeille]]
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|Music By = [[Hans Zimmer]]<br>[[Danny Elfman]]
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|Editing By = [[John Carnochan]]
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|Studio = [[Gracie Films]]<br>[[Film Roman]]<br>[[Rough Draft Studios|Rough Draft Feature Animation]]
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|Distributed By = [[20th Century Fox]]
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|Release = July 26, 2007 {{small|(UK and Australia)}}<br>July 27, 2007 {{small|(United States)}}
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|Running Time = 87 minutes
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|Blackboard text = "I will not illegally download this movie."
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|Country = United States
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|Language = English
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|Budget = $75-million
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|DVD features=yes
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}}
  
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==Plot==
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'''''The Simpsons Movie''''' is a [[2007]] feature-length film based on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It is produced by [[Gracie Films]] for [[20th Century Fox]] with animation produced by [[Film Roman]] and [[Rough Draft Studios]] and was released worldwide July 27, [[2007]]. Individual producers of the film include [[James L. Brooks]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Al Jean]], [[Mike Scully]], and [[Richard Sakai]] and was written by eleven of the television series' most prolific writers: Scully, Jean, Brooks, Groening, [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]], [[George Meyer]], [[David Mirkin]], [[Mike Reiss]], [[Matt Selman]], [[John Swartzwelder]], and [[Jon Vitti]]. The film was directed by [[David Silverman]], a former supervising director of ''The Simpsons'' TV series. The film stars the regular television cast of [[Dan Castellaneta]], [[Julie Kavner]], [[Nancy Cartwright]], [[Yeardley Smith]], [[Hank Azaria]], [[Harry Shearer]], [[Pamela Hayden]] and [[Tress MacNeille]].
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[[File:simpsons movie trailer 3.png|thumb|left|300px|A naked [[Bart]] hits the window of [[Krusty Burger]], where [[Ned Flanders|Ned]], [[Rod Flanders|Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders]] sit eating.]]
 
  
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The movie starts off with Itchy and Scratchy on the moon when Itchy kills and abandons Scratchy. Back on Earth Itchy becomes a hero through lying about Scratchy's death and eventually the President. In his office he sees Scratchy is still alive and holding up a sign that says "I'm telling." Itchy thinks and thinks of what to do and eventually decides to shoot nuclear missiles at the moon. He then fires hundreds of missiles at Scratchy, who screams, causing him to swallow the missiles. After his stomach is full, the last missile stops at the stomach and takes a boot out of the tip and kicks Scratchy. Scratchy then explodes. Homer then stands up in a movie theater and says that everybody in the theater is a giant sucker because they can watch the TV show at home for free (a reference to how the actual audience can watch The Simpsons at home for free instead of paying for tickets.)
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== Synopsis ==
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{{Desc|A [[dome]] is put over [[Springfield]] after [[Lake Springfield]] is heavily polluted by [[Homer]]. An angry mob chase the [[Simpson family]] out of town. Soon afterwards, the family find Springfield is going to be blown up...}}
  
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After the [[Itchy & Scratchy|Itchy &amp; Scratchy]] cartoon, the film opening consists of [[Waylon Smithers]] brushing their teeth with [[Montgomery Burns]] and he falls, Apu changing the Expiration date from 2006 to 2008, Martin Prince got flagpoled by 3 bullies, Bart's Chalkboard Gag, "I Will Not Illegally Download This Movie", and finally Green Day playing at a concert at [[Lake Springfield]], . As they finish their song (''The Simpsons Theme'' with a rock twist) they try to talk about the environment, which angers the audience to throwing trash at them. The trash in the water dissolves Green Day's barge and it sinks, killing them. At the funeral, which the Simpsons are late for ([[Reverend Timothy Lovejoy]] is up to the prayers of the faithful), First Ned told the Reverend to confess to a "modest sense of pride to our community", Hovever Grampa is possessed and begins to scream of a coming disaster foreshadowing the events on the film . This leads Marge to believe that God is sending them a message warning them about a future catastrophe (and is ultimately correct).  
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== Plot ==
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=== Intro ===
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The movie starts with the usual 20th Century Fox intro, with [[Ralph]] humming the tune, then echoed with instruments. A screen purposely smaller than the viewers' screen appears, and an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon plays. Itchy and Scratchy land on the moon. Itchy stabs Scratchy with a flagpole and abandons him. Back on Earth, Itchy becomes a hero by lying about Scratchy's death and is seen campaigning for president, with Hillary Clinton as his vice president.
  
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Later that day, after unsuccessfully trying to fix the roof. Homer and Bart play a game of dare, first the TV Antenna, the gutters, and now in which Homer dares Bart to skateboard nude to [[Krustyburger]] and back. His nudity was noticed by [[Disco Stu]], [[Becky]], [[Cookie Kwan]], [[Ralph Wiggum]] (claiming that he loves men, after seeing Bart naked), [[Agnes Skinner]], with [[Sherri and Terri]] and more people, and Bart gets in trouble with Chief Wiggum, who disables his skateboard. He leaves Bart handcuffed to a pole, as Nelson began laughing at him till sundown. Homer then arrives, but hearing that he would have to go to court if he admitted that he dared Bart, so he placed all the blame on him. He then gets Bart new clothes except pants as they walk into [[Krustyburger]]. Ned Flanders shows fatherly compassion towards Bart by providing him pants. Meanwhile, Homer adopts a pig as a pet when [[Krusty the Clown]] orders it to be killed shortly after taping a commercial and replaces Bart as his son.
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In his office, he sees Scratchy is still alive and holding up a sign that says "I'm telling." Itchy ponders what to do and eventually decides to commence an "accidental" nuclear launch, sending hundreds of nuclear missiles to the moon. Scratchy screams, swallowing the missiles. After his stomach is full, the last missile stops at the stomach, takes a boot out of the tip, and kicks Scratchy, who then explodes. His brain, head, heart, and gullet can be seen. The entire scene is revealed to be a movie that the Simpsons and most of [[Springfield]] are watching in a theater. Homer stands up and calls the movie boring. He announces that he could have watched the TV show at home for free rather than paying for tickets and then calls everyone in the theater a giant sucker for doing so, before pointing at the viewer in a fourth-wall break, yelling, "Especially '''YOU'''!"
  
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[[Marge]] calls [[Comic Book Guy]] to her house, to write down the words Grampa said, in exchange for giving him her pregnancy pants. She becomes confused at the meaning of EPA, he responded, "I believe that's the sound Green Lantern made, when Sinestro threw him into a vat of acid" and then asks [[Grampa Simpson]] about the 1,000 eyes, he said, "I'm pretty sure a thousand is a number." Marge remembers what Grampa Simpson said about a twisted tail when Homer Simpson shows Marge the pig he adopted, increasing her concern. However, Homer makes her laugh by showing her that the pig can imitate her squeal and his belching.
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The Simpsons opening intro then begins, except that instead of just the usual title floating toward the viewer through the clouds, [[Professor Frink]] flies by on a flying bike with a banner attached that reads "MOVIE," forming the movie title. The screen then expands after Frink says, "Movie...on the ''big screen''." The camera then flies through [[Springfield]], showing [[Smithers]] putting toothpaste on [[Mr. Burns]]' toothbrush, causing Burns to collapse, [[Apu]] changing the expiration date on a milk carton from 2006 to 2008, Martin Prince getting flagpoled by [[Dolph]], [[Jimbo]], and [[Kearney]] at the school, Bart's Chalkboard Gag, which reads "I Will Not Illegally Download This Movie," and finally a cut to that night where Green Day is holding a concert at [[Lake Springfield]]. As they finish their song (''The Simpsons Theme'' with a rock twist), they try to talk about the environment, which angers the audience into throwing trash at the band. Moe talks to Lisa and then throws a rock at the stage. The pollution in the water dissolves the barge floating on the lake on which Green Day is playing, causing it to sink and killing the band.
  
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Meanwhile, sad Bart is stuck outside feeling alone, while his dad, Homer rejecting him over Spider Pig/Harry Plopper, that infuriates Bart, however Ned Flanders calm him down, by taking him on a fishing trip together with no D'Ohzy antics from Homer at all, (ex: Using a bug zapper for catching fish/cheating his way to win.)
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=== Main Story ===
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[[File:simpsons movie trailer 3.png|thumb|left|300px|A naked [[Bart]] hits the window of [[Krusty Burger]], where [[Ned]], [[Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders]] sit eating.]]
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At the church service the next day, there is a tribute to the passing of Green Day, which the Simpsons are late for. [[Reverend Lovejoy]] calls upon one of the churchgoers to do the prayer, but not before Ned tells Lovejoy that he has to confess to a "modest sense of pride to our community". Lovejoy then amends his statement to exclude Flanders this time around. [[Grampa]] is suddenly possessed and begins to scream of a coming disaster, foreshadowing the events in the film, involving ''a twisted tail, a thousand eyes, trapped forever and "Eeeepa"''. This leads Marge to believe that God is sending them a message warning them about a future catastrophe (and is ultimately correct).
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[[File:The Clogger.png|250px|thumb|The Clogger]]
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Later that day, Homer is doing several chores, including removing a hornets' nest (which he places inside the mailbox of the Flanders) and fixing a sinkhole in the backyard (which he covers with a sandbox). After an unsuccessful attempt to fix the roof, Homer and Bart play a game of dare. Homer dares Bart to climb the TV antenna, and he nearly falls off the house, though he has fun doing so. After Bart shoots at Homer with a BB gun while Homer carries a load of bricks, Homer dares Bart [[Bart Skates|to skateboard to]] [[Krusty Burger]] [[Bart Skates|and back naked]]. Bart refuses at first but then does so after Homer calls him a "chicken for life", and many people see him do so.
  
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Meanwhile, Lisa starts to talk about the environment, with no success by the uninterested townsfolk of Springfield, until she meets an Irish boy named Colin and they combine their efforts to give a talk called "An Irritating Truth" at Town Hall. But because they wouldn't listen, she reveals that she put the lake water in their drinking glasses. The town then decides to clean up the lake after Mayor Quimby declares a state of emergency, '''Code Black''' when [[Lenny Leonard]] and [[Carl]] hears that word because he is African-American, he replies by saying, "Black, that's the worst color there is, No offense Carl." [[Carl Carlson]] replies, "I get that all the time." The townspeople tidies [[Lake Springfield]] and therefore, [[Fat Tony]], [[Legs and Louie]], [[Frankie the Squealer]], and [[Johnny Tightlips]] were told no dumping in the lake. Mayor Quimby proves the effectiveness of their "idiot proof" barrier by telling Cletus to try dumping in the lake only to walk into the concrete barricade.
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[[Chief Wiggum]], [[Lou]], and [[Eddie]] chase him in their patrol car before Lou disables his skateboard by shooting one of the tires, which sends Bart crashing into Krusty Burger's window, in front of Ned and his kids. Lou and Eddie get Bart from the window and leave him handcuffed to a pole, then the police walk into Krusty Burger to get lunch. Nelson, also there, begins laughing at Bart until sundown. Homer then arrives but blames everything on Bart after hearing that he would have to take a parenting course if he admitted that he dared Bart. He gives Bart new clothes but forgets to bring his pants. Walking into Krusty Burger, Ned shows fatherly compassion toward Bart by providing him pants. Before Bart can yell at Homer, Homer adopts [[Plopper|a pig]] as a pet when [[Krusty the Clown]] orders it to be killed shortly after taping a commercial nearby.
  
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Marge realises Homer named the pig "Spider-Pig" and he keeps the pig's waste in a silo, which horrifies Marge, who tells Homer to dispose of it safely. She even encourages him to take Spider-Pig with him, but he states that he has renamed him "Harry Plopper". While waiting in a queue at the waste disposal plant, Homer is told by Lenny that Lard Lad Donuts has been shut down and that they are giving away free donuts. Homer decides on a quicker means of disposal and dumps the silo into the wonderfully clean lake, causing it to become heavily polluted. Shortly a squirrel falls in and is severely mutated, giving it many eyes, another part of Grampa Simpsons's prophetical vision. Nearby, Flanders and Bart bond during a hike, after fishing and discover the mutated squirrel, which is captured by the EPA. Ned Flanders shows his fatherly compassion again by showing the four states that's bordering Springfield, Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky and they saw the mutated squirrel, but ignored it by saying, "Thank the lord for the mighty fine design." [[Russ Cargill]], head of the EPA, tells [[President Schwarzenegger]] that Springfield is so polluted that the government must take drastic action. He provides Schwarzenegger with five options and he picks option 3 at random without looking, saying he was elected to "lead, not to read". As a result, Springfield is quarantined/concealed in a giant glass destruction-proof dome that nobody can escape and is removed from the state map, ultimately fulfilling the prophetic vision Grampa had. First, [[Clancy Wiggum]]'s Springfield Police Department's Homeland Security to shoot their rifles targeting the dome (which results in them getting hurt instead), Next, [[Professor Frink]], announces that he had perfected an acid-firing superdrill that can cut through anything, however it's outside the dome, and finally, [[Sideshow Mel]] replacement for [[Sideshow Bob]] complains,"What kinda [[Russ Cargill|ruthless madmen]] could have done this to us???!!!" Russ Cargill appears and explains everything to the citizens of Springfield. Though Lisa states that they've cleaned up, Cargill throws back that someone did not get the message.  
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Meanwhile, [[Lisa]] tries to get signatures for a petition to clean up Lake Springfield (unsuccessfully). She meets an Irish boy named [[Colin]], who is doing exactly the same thing as Lisa. Colin just moved in, and his father is a musician (Lisa thinks it is Bono, but Colin refutes her). Lisa starts to develop a crush on Colin after finding out that he can play five different instruments.
  
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[[Kent Brockman]] says, "This is Kent Brockman on a crisis so serious it has its own name and theme music, "Trappuccino", gasoline, air, Botox shortage, the swallows being devoured by cats on their return to Springfield, and the ad for "Dome Depot" is now the result in their entrapment.  
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[[Marge]] obtains cell phone footage of Grampa's outburst at church recorded by [[Comic Book Guy]]. She becomes confused at the meaning of "Eeepa", to which Comic Book Guy responds, "I believe that's the sound the Green Lantern made when Sinestro threw him into a vat of acid". When Homer shows Marge his new pig, Marge remembers what Grampa said about a "twisted tail" and pleads for Homer to get rid of it. However, Homer wins her over by showing her that the pig can imitate her squeal and his belching.
  
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Marge claims to see Maggie on the other side of the dome, but when she brings Homer, Maggie is inside. When they're not looking, Maggie goes into the sinkhole that Homer covered with the sandbox.
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Bart is outside feeling alone, while Homer ignores him over Spider-Pig. This prompts Bart to angrily aim his slingshot at Homer, but Ned calms him down, offering Bart to go fishing with him. Bart feels after some thought that it is probably a good idea, especially as the only time he went fishing with his dad, Homer ended up using a bug zapper to cheat, which also resulted in him being electrified. While fishing, Bart accidentally lets go of Ned's best rod. To his surprise, however, Ned does not react violently as Homer would, and Bart starts to develop a father-son bond with him.
  
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The members of the Springfield Police Department [[Clancy Wiggum]] in association with [[Eddie and Lou]] soon find the pig waste silo in the lake, Homer says, "That could be anyone's pig waste silo", however the evidence in the silo said, "Please return to Homer Simpson, No Reward", and Kent said, "Just a reminder, [[Channel 6|this station]] doesn't endorse vigilante justice, unless it gets results, which it will!", as a result the sign says, "GET HIM!!!, Marge told him angrily that he did NOT listen to her after she warns him and is forced to apologized to the townspeople. Within seconds an angry mob approaches the Simpson's home intending to kill Homer. Homer fears that the mob will go after his family but the mob interjects that they just want him, even Grampa is in it. First [[Maggie Simpson]] stabs [[Mr. Teeny]] with a broken glass baby bottle, next when Colin gives Lisa roses, [[Carl Carlson]] torches them, Homer fakes a chainsaw imitation, Ned tells Bart and his folks to crawl on the plank, this results in Springfield Elementary students doing archery presented by, [[Seymour Skinner]] and [[Edna Krabappel]] (ex. [[Nelson Muntz]] uses a red arrow, just to murder Homer), Spider Pig/Harry Plopper pushes the plank down for the family to fall down, Marge gets their Wedding Video, escapes to their automobile, but no luck with [[Snake Jailbird]] and the others, then [[Otto Mann]] chains the treehouse and finally, the family escapes through a sinkhole Maggie discovered earlier, first Maggie, next Marge, also Bart by saying, "Geronimo!!" while he jumps, then Lisa by saying, "Sacajawea!!" while he jumps, and finally, Homer due to his size the sinkhole devours the Simpson's house, including the car, the treehouse and even Santa's Little Helper's doghouse. The Simpsons are soon declared on the run from every law and order state in America and is nominated for their recent '''China's Problem''' now. Cargill in particular, has gone mad with power, which he acknowledges to a subordinate.
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Lisa and Colin combine their efforts to give a presentation called "An Irritating Truth" at Town Hall. But because the average Springfielder could care less about the environment, she reveals that she put the lake water in their drinking glasses, causing everyone to spit out the water they just drank. The tactic is successful, [[Mayor Quimby]] declares a state of emergency, and the entire townspeople tidy Lake Springfield. Mayor Quimby proves the effectiveness of their "idiot-proof" barrier by telling [[Cletus]] to try dumping a dead possum in the lake, only for him to walk into the concrete barricade.
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[[File:Acid Shooting Ray.png|thumb|"I've invented a machine that can dig through anything and here it is... just outside of the dome"]]
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Marge realizes Homer keeps the pig's waste in a silo (including his own), which horrifies her. She tells Homer to dispose of it safely and encourages him to take Spider-Pig with him, but he states that he has renamed him "Harry Plopper". While waiting in a queue at the waste disposal plant, Homer gets a phone call from [[Lenny]], who says that [[Lard Lad Donuts]] has been shut down by the health inspector and that they are giving away all their donuts for free. In a rush to get to the giveaway, Homer drives to the lake, ignoring the no-dumping signs and smashing through the concrete barrier with no damage to his car, and dumps the silo into the now wonderfully clean lake, causing it to become heavily re-polluted almost instantly. Shortly after, a squirrel falls in and becomes severely mutated, giving it "a thousand eyes"—another part of Grampa's prophetical vision.  
  
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In Red Rash Inn, Bart was drinking whiskey, because he is troubled due to missing Ned Flanders, being a father figure/role model, and therefore the family got angry at Homer, due to his stubborn nature. However, he presents a solution which he had prepared for if he ever screwed up so badly: he proposes that the entire family move to Alaska to which they eventually all agree on.  
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Nearby, Ned and Bart bond during a hike and discover the mutated squirrel, which is then captured by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [[Russ Cargill]], head of the EPA, tells [[President Schwarzenegger]] that Springfield is so polluted that the government must take drastic action. He provides Schwarzenegger with five options, and the president picks option 3 at random without looking, saying he was elected to "lead, not to read".
  
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Next day, the family is at a carnival, where a carny is offering his truck if someone can ride a motorcycle in a spherical cage once, for three tries. However, three times Homer failed, so the carny gives him another try, just to see him get hurt. Lisa advises her father to not stop when he reaches the top, enabling him to win. As the Simpsons drive off in their new truck, the carny's Siamese wives aren't very happy.
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Option 3 traps the entire town of Springfield under a gigantic dome. A hundred helicopters hoist the dome over the town and place it upon Springfield (flattening a man in the process), horrifying the inhabitants. Marge sees the letters "EPA" on the side of the helicopter and realizes that Grampa's prophecy has come true. After several futile attempts to crack the dome by the police and [[Sideshow Mel]], Cargill appears on a gigantic television screen and explains to the citizens of Springfield that their lake has become extremely polluted and, to prevent the pollution from spreading, they trapped them under the dome, removing Springfield from the state map in the process.  
  
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While stopping for gas, Marge is eventually very proud of Bart for being sober, which he proves by knocking a hot dog out of Homer's hand with his slingshot. Marge tries to tell Bart to give Homer another chance but is cut off when she sees a wanted poster for them. She distracts the clerk from noticing, while Bart draws over the poster to match a similar looking family who had just walked in.  
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Lisa states that they've cleaned up the lake, but Cargill responds by saying that someone did not get the message—implying Homer, who tells Plopper to act natural. [[Kent Brockman]] reports the incident, which he calls "[[Trappuccino]]", and mentions a shortage of supplies like gasoline and Botox. He also reports on swallows being devoured by cats after crashing against the dome upon their return to Springfield and advertises "Dome Depot". Marge claims to see Maggie on the other side of the dome, but when she brings Homer to look, Maggie is inside. When they are not looking, Maggie goes through the sinkhole that Homer covered with the sandbox, ending up on the other side, and then returns back inside.
  
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Meanwhile in [[Burns Manor]], [[Julius Hibbert]], [[Clancy Wiggum]], and [[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]] asked [[Waylon Smithers]] and [[Mr. Burns]] for electricity. The former two want to help patients at the hospital and fry prisoners respectively, but Apu tries reasoning with Burns, only to them chased by dogs.
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The police soon discover the silo in the lake with the words "Please return to Homer Simpson, No Reward" written on the side. Homer and Marge see a live news broadcast of the discovery, and Marge yells at Homer for not listening to her warning, but Homer simply says, "Nobody watches the channel anyway." Contrary to his belief, within seconds, a massive angry mob of Springfield's citizens (except for the Flanders family) approaches the Simpson home intending to kill him. Homer fears the mob will go after his family, but they interject that they just want him—even Grampa joins the mob.  
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In Springfield, the townspeople are going crazy from running low on supplies, no electricity, and being cut off from the outside air. While on the Springfield Book Club, led by [[Helen Lovejoy]] discussing "Tuesdays with Morrie," [[Cookie Kwan]], [[Lindsay Naegle]], [[Bernice Hibbert]], [[Luann Van Houten]] and the others complain and they attempt to break the dome, in a revelation started by [[Barney Gumble]], that started by [[Drederick Tatum]] boxes the dome off, next [[The Sea Captain]] uses the swordfish to break the dome, then [[Ralph Wiggum]] blows bubbles to destroy the dome and finally, many Springfield residents, making cracks appear in the dome. This is witnessed by Russ Cargill from a security camera who tells the President that they can't keep Springfield in this state forever. If they get out, then the world will knows, which would mean bureaucratic investigations. Cargill asks the President to choose another plan out of five, but this time manipulates him to choose the plan to blow up Springfield (Option 4).  
 
  
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In Alaska, the family sees an advertisement presented by [[Tom Hanks]] promoting a new Grand Canyon, to be located where Springfield is next to [[Shelbyville]] &amp; [[Capital City]]. Marge and the kids decide that they must save Springfield, but Homer refuses to help the town that tried to kill them. For example, he betrays them by saying, "I'm happy here, screw Springfield", The angry mob which in retrospect is his friends, chased him during Access Hollywood at 7PM, and he's thinking, "We've have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going to America again!!". He comes back from a nearby Eski-Moe's Bar to play '''Grand Theft Walrus''', and the next day to discover Marge left a video tape. She has left with the kids to save Springfield and to prove she has temporarily ended their marriage, she taped over their wedding video. Homer is left heartbroken and run out to find his family only to be mauled by a polar bear. It is chased off by an Inuit shaman, who drags Homer to her hut. She tells him that he must have an epiphany and begins the art of throat singing. Homer then enters a dreamworld, trying to find the right epiphany but is slapped, punched and kicked by "epiphitrees". When they pull his body apart, Homer realizes that he cannot survive without others, and must save Springfield and his family. He begins a long journey home, from driving a train of sled dogs, who attack and leave him when they started to rest, before walking. He starts to lose hope, until the northern lights turn into the shaman, who points the direction of Springfield with her breasts.
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Ned tells Bart and his family to crawl on a plank to his house, but the children, led by [[Principal Skinner]], prepare to fire arrows at them. Plopper pushes the plank off the windowsill, causing the family to fall and narrowly miss the arrows. Homer lands on a barbecue grill and, despite the situation, eats a shrimp, commenting that his luck is beginning to turn. The family runs to their car, but Marge runs back into the flaming house to get their wedding video (and wash a dish) before escaping to the car. However, their escape is futile as the mob picks up the car and moves it toward the backyard.
  
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Meanwhile, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart arrive at Seattle train station to inform the world of the EPA's plot. Unknowingly, they are overheard by a robotic drone, used by the National Security Agency to spy on people's conversation and are immediately arrested by Cargill upon arrival. A helicopter arrives and opens a hole at the top of the dome, lowering down a bomb, timed at 15 minutes. [[Carl]] tells everyone to climb the rope to safety while [[Cletus]] distracts him with his thumb. Homer soon discovers the family's capture and uses a crane to try and get them out after the truck stops at a crossing but with little success, by using '''SOP, YELD or ONE VAY''' signs. Bart then succeeds in gassing himself and the whole family to sleep after protesting to the driver, waking up in Springfield next morning, where [[Moe]] has become the self-proclaimed "Emperor of Springfield", although his leadership was unsuccessfully challenged by Barney. Cargill soon appears on a giant screen on the dome and tells the townspeople that Springfield is to be destroyed.  
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The mob prepares a noose for each member of the Simpson family, including Maggie (whose noose has a red pacifier attached). The family escapes onto the treehouse by climbing the nooses, but Homer gets stuck on one. He attempts to apologize to the crowd but gets hit in the face with the non-blade side of a power saw thrown by a mob member. Lenny and [[Carl]] chain [[Otto Mann]]'s school bus to the treehouse, and Otto attempts to pull it down while Grampa points and cocks a shotgun at them.  
  
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In order to save his family, Homer disguises himself as General Mariott Suites, gets some supplies, and Homer ultimately climbs the dome and descends down the helicopter rope, ironically knocking the escaping town people and bomb off the rope. Homer is upset when Bart disowns him for this and accidentally kicks down the bomb, halving its time limit, resulting in him being chased out of town again. The Comic Book Guy, discovers that he's been doing nothing in his life by collecting comic books. Bart is with Ned and his sons, [[Rod and Todd Flanders]] Bart wants to be part of Ned's Family, due to Homer's negligence towards him. Soon Homer notices a motorbike and tries to reconcile with sad/depressed Bart who had just declared to be with the Flanders family, and they cycle up the side of the dome. First, Homer grabs the abandoned bike from the open, then he borrows a hat from [[Rich Texan]], and finally Bart, who eventually listens to his father's words and confesses that, "[He] wasn't much of a father anyway, because of the way my [[Grampa Simpson|father]] raises [him]." He then reaches another epiphany about a cycle only to be interrupted by Marge to "just throw the goddamn bomb!". Meanwhile, [[Martin Prince]] slugs 3 bullies [[Jimbo Jones]], [[Dolph Starbeam]], &amp; [[Kearney Zzyzwicz]] for picking on him at school and life. Bart throws the bomb through the hole, detonating it and shattering the dome to pieces. Afterwards, when they make a safe landing by Springfield Gorge, Cargill appears, deciding to cope with defeat and handle a shotgun by killing Homer, only to be knocked out by Maggie.
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The family barely escapes when Maggie shows them an escape route through the sinkhole in the sandbox. Homer, due to his size, gets trapped in the sinkhole but eventually slips through, though not before his head gets clawed by the mob. Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie shoot at the sandbox, but in the process, cause the sinkhole to grow larger. The townspeople flee as the sinkhole devours the Simpson house, including the car, the treehouse, and even Santa's Little Helper's doghouse.
  
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Everyone is safe except [[Dr Nick]] who is injured and/or killed when he is impaled by a large piece of dome glass. Lisa is told by [[Milhouse]] that Colin died when they were away only for him to appear afterwards. The town praises Homer, who rides off with Marge on the motorbike into the sunset. The film ends with everyone rebuilding the Simpsons house and restoring things back to the way they were.
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As the Simpsons look solemnly at the remains of their house, Lisa sees Colin next to the dome. He tries to play her a song on his guitar, but she cannot hear him, so he writes the notes on the dome instead. Lisa shares a moment with Colin, but Bart interrupts, ranting, "Lisa has a boyfriend that she'll never see again!" She punches him in the face before the family is forced to flee as Cargill and his men arrive. Cargill, now mad with power, is determined to keep anyone from escaping the dome and to capture the Simpsons.
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[[File:simpsons angry mob.png|right|thumb|300px|An angry mob of Springfieldians hunting for Homer Simpson.]]
  
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The credits come to a pause, where we see Smithers with Mr. Burns in his looted manor, and the depressed millionaire suggests that suicide for [[Waylon Smithers]] might cheer him up sometime. The credits briefly pause again, when we see Tom Hanks asking the audience that if they see him in real life, to leave him be.
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==== On the Run ====
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While hiding from the EPA in Red Rash Inn (and having a very close call with two gay policemen, who actually arrive at the Inn to make out), Marge catches Bart drinking whiskey to "drown his sorrows." He announces that he misses Ned before passing out. The family later confronts Homer, demanding to know why he dumped the silo into the lake. Homer admits that he never thought about his decision and apologizes to the family. To make it up to them, he presents a solution he had prepared for if he ever screwed up so badly: he proposes that the entire family move to Alaska. While Marge is hesitant at first, Homer eventually convinces her to follow him.
  
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While the credits roll, the Simpsons are (still) watching the movie in a theater, and Lisa wants to see that no animals were harmed during filming, which she does. Before they leave, Maggie says "sequel". During the credits, the Springfield National Anthem was based on the French National anthem, La Marseillaise, due to Springfield admitting that they don't have their own anthem, and therefore they stole their tune by paying a short guy to write it, but vanished, because the French does outstanding things like making love, wine and Roquefort, Camembert and Brie cheese. At the very end of the credits, the [[Squeaky Voiced Teen]] cleans up the floor, not thinking four years in film school was really worth it.
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The next day, the family is at a carnival, where a carny offers his truck to anyone who can ride a motorcycle in the [[Ball of Death]] within three tries. However, Homer fails three times, so the carny gives him another try just to see him get hurt. Lisa advises her father not to stop when he reaches the top, enabling him to win. As the Simpsons drive off in their new truck, the carny's Siamese wives are not happy because the carny had forgotten that he was supposed to take them on vacation.  
  
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== Trivia ==
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While stopping for gas, Marge expresses pride in Bart for staying sober. Bart proves it by using his slingshot to knock a hot dog out of Homer's hand, but Homer immediately pulls another hot dog out of his pocket. Marge tries to tell Bart to give Homer another chance, but she is cut off when she sees a wanted poster showing their family. She distracts the clerk while Bart draws over the poster to match the appearance of a similar-looking family who has just walked in.
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=== General ===
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[[File:Simpson family look-alikes.png|thumb|The similar-looking family.]]
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*[[Moe's Tavern]] is named "Moe's Bar".
 
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*The ambulance wreckage from "[[Bart the Daredevil]]" remains at the side of [[Springfield Gorge]].
 
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*[[Snowball II]], doesn't appear during the movie.
 
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*The film's color &amp; shading was brighter then color &amp; shading used on the show since the film is made in a 16:3 aspect then 2 years later the same style of color &amp; shading was used from the middle of season 20.
 
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*[[Dr. Nick Riviera]] is killed by a giant piece of the dome's glass yet in the season 20 episode "[[Lost Verizon]]" he is seen alive.
 
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*Bart's penis is briefly shown to the viewers during his nude ride to Krusty Burger, but up till then and after that it is blocked out.
 
  
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=== Production ===
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Meanwhile, back in Springfield, power outages plague the surviving populace. In [[Burns' manor]], Apu, Wiggum, and [[Dr. Hibbert]] ask Burns for electricity. Burns demands good reasons to comply, warning that he will [[Release the Hounds!|release the hounds]] otherwise. Hibbert states he needs power to help patients at the hospital, and Wiggum says he needs it to fry a convict in the morning. Apu tries reasoning with Burns but realizes he has said the wrong thing. Burns releases the hounds, forcing them to flee from the manor.
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*The season 4 episode "[[Kamp Krusty]]" was originally going to be a film, but difficulties were encountered in writing a movie length script, at which point the movie plans were dropped in favor of a season premiere.
 
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*Before his death, [[Phil Hartman]] had always wanted to create a live action [[Troy McClure]] film, with several of the staff saying that they would have loved to help create it.
 
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*[[Matt Groening]] expressed a wish to make ''Simpstasia'', a parody of the Disney film ''Fantasia''.
 
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*Production began in 2001.
 
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*Numerous plots were considered: [[Al Jean]] suggested the family saving manatees, which became the 2005 episode "[[Bonfire of the Manatees]]", and there was a ''The Truman Show''-style notion of the characters discovering their lives were a TV show, which Groening rejected due to his rule "that the Simpsons never become aware of themselves as celebrities", however this idea was later put in as the plot in [[The Simpsons Game]] where the family discover that their lives are a video game.
 
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*94 characters have speaking parts.  
 
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*Series regulars [[Dan Castellaneta]], [[Julie Kavner]], [[Nancy Cartwright]], [[Yeardley Smith]], [[Hank Azaria]], [[Harry Shearer]], [[Marcia Wallace]], [[Pamela Hayden]], [[Russi Taylor]], [[Tress MacNeille]] and [[Maggie Roswell]] reprised their roles for the film, as did [[Joe Mantegna]] for [[Fat Tony]]. [[Albert Brooks]] plays [[Russ Cargill]], [[Green Day]] and [[Tom Hanks]] play themselves.
 
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*[[Minnie Driver]] recorded the part of a patronizing grievance counselor in a scene that was cut, as were [[Edward Norton]], [[Isla Fisher]] and [[Erin Brockovich]]'s scenes, and [[Kelsey Grammer]]'s as [[Sideshow Bob]].
 
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*[[Hans Zimmer]] provided the score, ahead of regular composer [[Alf Clausen]].
 
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*Although credited, Patty, Selma, Edna Krabappel and Kang did not have speaking parts in the final cut, the first three had parts in the DVD's deleted scenes. Kodos was also in one version of the movie; he and Kang slated the film over the end credits, however this was cut after the test screening.
 
  
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=== Marketing and release ===
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The Simpson family reaches Alaska and gets a new house, deciding to rebuild their lives there. Homer and Marge share a private moment of intimacy while getting snowed in—thanks to Bart, who causes an avalanche by clapping repeatedly outside.
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[[File:Simpsons teaser trailer.png|right|thumb|240px|[[Homer Simpson]] sitting on his couch in a Superman t-shirt and briefs in the teaser trailer that debuted on March 31 2006.]]
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*In 'Treehouse of Horror XVII', first shown on November 05,2006, in the credits executive producer Al Jean's name had the date of the release as a middle name.
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In Springfield, the situation deteriorates even further. The townspeople are about to reach the breaking point after 93 days without supplies, electricity, or outside air. The Springfield Book Club, consisting of [[Helen Lovejoy]], [[Cookie Kwan]], [[Lindsey Naegle]], [[Bernice Hibbert]], [[Luann Van Houten]], and [[Agnes Skinner]], meets up. Helen suggests discussing "Tuesdays with Morrie," but Cookie complains that if they do not get a new book, she will puke. The meeting ends with Lindsey angrily throwing her book at Helen. The book flies out the window and knocks over the coffee machine inside the church during an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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*A teaser trailer for the film was attached to the film ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' from March 31 2006 onwards; the same trailer was then broadcast during the April 2 episode of ''The Simpsons'', "[[Million Dollar Abie]]".  
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*In July 2006, two clips of early, black and white, unfinished animatic footage from the film were shown to audiences during a ''Simpsons'' panel at Comic-Con 2006, with a third animatic clip being released on the ''The Simpsons The Complete Ninth Season'' DVD boxset.  
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[[Barney Gumble]] finally snaps and makes a futile attempt to crack the dome, followed by the rest of the Springfieldians. They use everything from battering rams and jackhammers to shovels and boxing gloves. Cargill observes this from a security camera and tells the President that they cannot keep Springfield in this state forever. He warns that if the townspeople escape, the world will find out, leading to bureaucratic investigations. Cargill then asks the President to choose another plan from five options but manipulates him into choosing Option 4: Blow Up Springfield.
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*A 1½-minute-long trailer was then shown on November 12, 2006, immediately after the second act of ''The Simpsons'' episode "[[G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)]]".  
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*Another 1½-minute trailer appeared on ''The Sun'' newspaper's website on December 11, 2006.  
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==== Saving Springfield ====
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*On the February 14 2007, episode of ''American Idol'', footage was shown of the contestants attending a private screening where they were shown an early preview of the first theatrical trailer. The same trailer was then shown during ''The Simpsons'' episode "[[Springfield Up]]" on February 18, 2007, and was made available online shortly afterwards.  
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In Alaska, the family is peacefully rebuilding their lives until one night they see a commercial featuring Tom Hanks about the "New Grand Canyon" being built, located east of [[Shelbyville]] and south of [[Capital City]]. This happens to be where Springfield is located. Marge and the kids decide that they must save Springfield, but Homer refuses to help the town that tried to kill them. Even after Marge repeats the same line he used to convince her to move to Alaska and Bart calls him a bad father—wishing that Ned were his dad—Homer responds by angrily strangling him. He declares that he is staying in Alaska and storms out of the house to go to [[Eski-Moe's]] Bar to drink and play a "[[Grand Theft Walrus]]" arcade game.
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The next day, he returns home only to discover that Marge has left a videotape. She and the kids have gone to save Springfield, and to prove she has ended their marriage, she has taped over their wedding video. Heartbroken, Homer runs out to find his family but is nearly mauled by a polar bear. He is saved by an [[Medicine Woman|Inuit shaman]], who drags him to her hut and tells him he must have an epiphany. She begins the art of throat singing, sending Homer into a dreamworld where he tries to find enlightenment. He is slapped, punched, and kicked by "epiphitrees" before they pull his body apart, leading him to realize that he cannot survive without others and must save Springfield and his family. He begins his journey back, using a sled dog team that quickly turns on him and runs off when they stop to rest. Left to walk, he starts to lose hope until the northern lights transform into the shaman, who points the direction of Springfield with her breasts.
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Meanwhile, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart arrive at a Seattle train station to inform the world of the EPA's plot. Unbeknownst to them, a robotic drone from the National Security Agency overhears their conversation, and they are immediately arrested by Cargill upon arrival.
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Homer gets closer to Springfield and is able to see the dome. While observing it (using imaginary binoculars that somehow work), he hears saxophone music coming from an armored van and realizes that his family is inside. He attempts to rescue them by knocking over the truck with a wrecking ball, but the plan backfires, and he is painfully hit by the wrecking ball instead. Bart tries to break his handcuffs, but the truck drivers fill the compartment with tranquilizer gas, knocking the family out.
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Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie wake up to find themselves back in Springfield, now in ruins. They encounter [[Moe Szyslak]], who is dressed in a bathrobe, a traffic cone, and bullets, having proclaimed himself Emperor of Springfield (though his leadership was unsuccessfully challenged by Barney). Just then, Cargill reappears on the giant screen, announcing that placing the dome over Springfield was a mistake and revealing that the government has commenced Operation Soaring Eagle—an ill-named plan that involves killing them all.
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[[File:Emperor Moe.png|250px|thumb|right|"Emperor" Moe]]
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A helicopter arrives and opens a hole at the top of the dome, lowering a small but powerful bomb timed at 15 minutes. As the Springfieldians panic and seek cover, the family realizes that they still miss Homer.
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Determined to save his family, Homer disguises himself as General Mariott Suites and knocks out a guard at the site. He grabs a tube of superglue, applies it to each hand, and climbs the dome himself. Carl tells everyone to climb the rope to safety while Cletus distracts Cargill with a thumb trick. Unfortunately, Homer descends the helicopter rope, knocking the escaping townspeople and the bomb off the rope. The bomb's fall freezes its timer in the process. When Bart disowns him, an upset Homer accidentally kicks the bomb, reactivating it and halving the time limit. The townspeople berate him again and proceed to throw objects at him as he runs off, crying.
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Bart finds Ned and his sons, [[Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders]], inside the Church. Bart wants to be part of Ned's family due to Homer's negligence towards him, and Ned decides to accept him, though Rod and Todd try to warn him not to. Homer sees Marge behind the ruins of a building and tries to get to her but accidentally hits a tree. One of the tree's leaves points towards a motorbike. Knowing what he has to do, he rides the motorbike and grabs the bomb, determined to save Springfield. Before he does so, he finds Bart and the Flanders at the Church. Bart reconciles with Homer after he offers to let Bart hold the bomb, and they cycle up the side of the dome. While cycling around the dome the same way he does at the carnival weeks ago, Homer is about to realize his family's cycle of negligence between the relationship of father and son, only to be interrupted by Marge to "just throw the goddamn bomb." When Homer reaches the top, Bart throws the bomb through the hole mere seconds before it detonates. The explosion cracks the dome, and Homer manages to ride down from the falling pieces of the dome to the slope of Springfield Gorge, managing to make it over. The dome shatters completely into tiny, harmless pieces, and everyone is saved except [[Dr. Nick]], who is crushed by an exceptionally large piece of glass.
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While looking at the now-domeless Springfield, Cargill appears, deciding to learn the two things that Harvard doesn't teach: how to cope with defeat and how to handle a shotgun, by killing Homer and Bart, only to be knocked out by Maggie.
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Lisa is told by [[Milhouse]] that Colin died when they were away, only for him to appear afterward. Lisa suggests going to clean the lake up, but Colin suggests getting some ice cream, which Lisa agrees to. As the defeated Cargill is fired from his job and arrested for his crimes, the town forgives and praises Homer, who rides off with Marge on the motorbike into the sunset and intimately kisses her. The movie ends with the people of Springfield rebuilding the Simpsons' house and restoring things back to the way they were, as Homer and Bart fix the roof like earlier in the film, and Homer accidentally gets the needle in his leg and screams as Bart laughs, ending the movie.
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=== Credits ===
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The credits pause, showing Smithers comforting Burns in his looted manor. The depressed millionaire tells Smithers that, even though he doesn't believe in suicide, if he would like to try it, it might cheer him up to watch. The credits briefly pause again, showing Tom Hanks asking the audience that if they see him in real life, to leave him be.
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While the credits roll, the Simpsons are (still) watching the movie in a theater, and Lisa wants to see that no animals are harmed during filming, which she does. Before they leave, Maggie says "sequel." Near the end of the credits, the townspeople are heard singing the Springfield National Anthem, which is based on the French National Anthem, *La Marseillaise*, due to Springfield admitting that they don't have their own anthem. Therefore, they stole the tune by paying a short guy to write it, but they never see him again. They note that the French do outstanding things like making love, wine, and Roquefort, Camembert, and Brie cheese. At the very end of the credits, the [[Squeaky-Voiced Teen]] cleans up the theater floor, not thinking four years in film school is really worth it.
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== Opening Sequence ==
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The sequence was completely remade for ''The Simpsons Movie'' and features the orchestrated version of "The Simpsons Theme" as adapted by Hans Zimmer, which is slightly different from the first track of ''[[The Simpsons Movie: The Music]]'' CD. The pre-sequence scene is displayed in a 16:9 television aspect ratio, with black matte bars at either end of the screen. As the sequence begins with the "The Simpsons" logo appearing out of the clouds, [[Professor Frink]] flies past in one of his inventions carrying a banner marked "MOVIE" and saying "Moo-vie! On the big screen!!". When he hits the bar on the left side, both it and the one on the right nudge out of view so that the image fills the entire screen.
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Instead of going through the P of "SIMPSONS," the camera goes through the O of "MOVIE" as the banner falls loose. The camera zooms in on the town, with several major landmarks popping-up. The camera then zooms in to [[Mr. Burns]], who is holding a toothbrush in his bathroom with [[Smithers]] who gives him toothpaste, the extra weight of the toothpaste causes frail Mr. Burns to collapse. The camera then zooms past [[Moe's Tavern]] into the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] where Apu is secretly changing the expiration date on one of his products from 2006 to 2008. Next the camera cuts to Springfield Elementary where [[Jimbo]], [[Dolph]] and Kearney are hoisting [[Martin Prince]] up a flagpole by his underwear and saluting it as if it were a flag. The camera then zooms through the window where [[Bart]] is writing lines for detention ("I will not illegally download this movie") before finishing with [[Green Day]] who are hosting a concert at [[Lake Springfield]], playing their version of the [[Theme Song|theme song]] and using a {{W|teleprompter}} to get its "lyrics" right.
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== Production ==
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[[File:Marge freaks out Simpsons Movie.jpg|thumb|Marge freaks out in church]]
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*Previous ''The Simpsons'' film projects failed to develop:
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**[[Matt Groening]] mentioned in an interview published in the Summer 1993 issue of {{ap|Simpsons Illustrated|Welsh Publishing Group, Inc.}} that "maybe someday we'll do a Simpsons movie".
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**The season four episode "[[Kamp Krusty]]" was originally going to be a film, but difficulties were encountered in writing a movie length script, at which point the movie plans were dropped in favor of a season premiere.
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**Before his death, [[Phil Hartman]] had always wanted to create a live action [[Troy McClure]] film, with several of the staff saying that they would have loved to help create it.
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**[[Matt Groening]] expressed a wish to make ''Simpstasia'', a parody of the Disney film ''Fantasia''.
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*Production for the movie began in 2001.
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*Numerous plots were considered for this movie: [[Al Jean]] suggested the family saving manatees, which became the 2005 episode "[[The Bonfire of the Manatees]]", and there was a ''The Truman Show''-style notion of the characters discovering their lives were a TV show, which Groening rejected due to his rule "that the Simpsons never become aware of themselves as celebrities", however this idea was later put in as the plot in ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' where the family discover that their lives are a video game.
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*94 characters have speaking parts.
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*Series regulars [[Dan Castellaneta]], [[Julie Kavner]], [[Nancy Cartwright]], [[Yeardley Smith]], [[Hank Azaria]], [[Harry Shearer]], [[Marcia Wallace]], [[Pamela Hayden]], [[Russi Taylor]], [[Tress MacNeille]], [[Joe Mantegna]], and [[Maggie Roswell]] reprised their roles for the film. [[Albert Brooks]] plays [[Russ Cargill]], [[Green Day]] and [[Tom Hanks]] play themselves.
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*Minnie Driver recorded the part of a patronizing grievance counselor in a scene that was cut, as were Edward Norton, Isla Fisher and Erin Brockovich's scenes, and [[Kelsey Grammer]]'s as [[Sideshow Bob]].
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*[[Hans Zimmer]] provided the score, rather than regular composer [[Alf Clausen]].
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*Originally, Marge was supposed to freak out in church. This was later changed to Grampa.
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*It had a secret code name "Yellow Harvest".<ref name="AlJeanTwitter">Al Jean's Twitter (account closed)</ref>
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*A scene with Homer and Plopper was scrapped.<ref name="AlJeanTwitter"/>
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*Although credited, Patty, Selma, Edna Krabappel, Groundskeeper Willie, Jimbo Jones and Kang did not have speaking parts in the final cut, the first three had parts in the DVD's deleted scenes, Jimbo is heard grunting when Martin hits him with a plank of wood, and Willie is heard cheering with the other Springfieldians. Kodos was also in one version of the movie; he and Kang slated the film over the end credits, however this was cut after a test screening.<ref>''[[Springfield Confidential]]'' Chapter 6</ref>
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**'''Kang:''' At least the pig was cute.
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**'''Kodos:''' Yeah, until he vanished halfway through the picture!
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File:Movie Deleted Scene Script 1.jpg
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File:Movie Deleted Scene Script 2.jpg
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*There is an unused scene with Russ Cargill, Mr. Burns and Smithers.<ref>[https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1236400831840358406 That Guy's Twitter]</ref>
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File:Movie Deleted Scene Script 3.jpg
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</gallery>
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== Marketing and release ==
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[[File:Simpsons teaser trailer.png|right|thumb|240px|[[Homer Simpson]] sitting on his couch in a Superman t-shirt and briefs in the teaser trailer that debuted on March 31, 2006.]]
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*In 'Treehouse of Horror XVII', first shown on November 5, 2006, in the credits executive producer Al Jean's name had the date of the release as a middle name.
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*A teaser trailer for the film was attached to the film ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' from March 31, 2006 onwards; the same trailer was then broadcast during the April 2 episode of ''The Simpsons'', "[[Million-Dollar Abie]]".
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*In July 2006, two clips of early, black and white, unfinished animatic footage from the film were shown to audiences during a ''Simpsons'' panel at Comic-Con 2006, with a third animatic clip being released on the ''The Simpsons The Complete Ninth Season'' DVD boxset.
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*A 1½-minute-long trailer was then shown on November 12, 2006, immediately after the second act of ''The Simpsons'' episode "[[G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)]]".
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*Another 1½-minute trailer appeared on ''The Sun'' newspaper's website on December 11, 2006.
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*On the February 14, 2007, episode of ''[[American Idol]]'', footage was shown of the contestants attending a private screening where they were shown an early preview of the first theatrical trailer. The same trailer was then shown during ''The Simpsons'' episode "[[Springfield Up]]" on February 18, 2007, and was made available online shortly afterwards.
 
*A short TV spot was then aired during the episode "[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]".
 
*A short TV spot was then aired during the episode "[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]".
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[[File:Simpsons movie animatic 3.png|right|250px|thumb|[[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] look at the silo in their back yard in the animatic included on the season 9 DVD set.]]
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[[File:Simpsons movie animatic 3.png|right|250px|thumb|[[Marge]] and [[Homer]] look at the silo in their back yard in the animatic included on the season 9 DVD set.]]
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*McFarlane Toys will released a line of action figures based on the film, these include Ned Flanders and Bart looking over a rock at a character that is covered by a "Top Secret Character" logo. Others include Bart skateboarding naked having been dared by Sherri and Terri, Homer and his pet pig, and Itchy &amp; Scratchy in "Presidential Politics". Also a series of "movie mayhem" figures, depicting the family in a cinema, were released.  
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*[[McFarlane Toys]] released a line of action figures based on the film, these include Ned Flanders and Bart looking over a rock at a character that is covered by a "Top Secret Character" logo. Others include Bart skateboarding naked having been dared by Sherri and Terri (changed to Homer in the actual film), Homer and Plopper, and Itchy & Scratchy in "Presidential Politics". Also a series of "movie mayhem" figures, depicting the family in a cinema, were released.
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*''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' was released to coincide with the film's DVD release.  
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*''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' was released to coincide with the film's DVD release.
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*Samsung released a special ''Simpsons Movie'' phone, and Microsoft will released a limited edition ''Simpsons Movie'' Xbox 360.  
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*Samsung released a special ''Simpsons Movie'' phone, and Microsoft released a limited edition Simpsons Xbox 360.
 
*Other merchandise that was released includes a ''The Simpsons Movie'' donut-shaped stress reliever, as well as a badge pack.
 
*Other merchandise that was released includes a ''The Simpsons Movie'' donut-shaped stress reliever, as well as a badge pack.
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*As a promotion for the film, eleven 7-Eleven stores across America will be transformed into [[Kwik-E-Mart]]s, and sell Squishees, Buzz Cola and Krusty-O's Cereal.
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*As a promotion for the film, [[7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart Promotion|twelve 7-Eleven stores across the United States and Canada were transformed into Kwik-E-Marts]], and sell [[Squishee]]s, [[Buzz Cola]] and Krusty-O's Cereal.
 
*The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "irreverent humor throughout". The rating had been expected by the production staff.
 
*The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "irreverent humor throughout". The rating had been expected by the production staff.
 
*Fox held a competition between sixteen Springfields across the United States to host the American premiere, with Springfield, Vermont being selected as the winner.
 
*Fox held a competition between sixteen Springfields across the United States to host the American premiere, with Springfield, Vermont being selected as the winner.
 
*Test screenings were held in Portland, Oregon and Tempe, Arizona.
 
*Test screenings were held in Portland, Oregon and Tempe, Arizona.
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*The film made a total of $526,417,972 at the box-office.  
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*The film made a total of $526,417,972 worldwide at the box-office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3195110913|title=The Simpsons Movie|author=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>
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*The film garnered an 90% freshness rating on critical site Rotten Tomatoes.
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**It was the highest-grossing adult-animated film (rated PG-13 or higher) worldwide, until 2025, being defeated by the anime film {{W|Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle}}, and Chinese film {{W|Ne Zha 2}} (by an approximately 4x margin, although grossing almost entirely in China). <!-- Could be 2019, but Wikipedia's "List of highest-grossing adult animated films" lists the first Ne Zha as PG-13 and IMDB as PG under American ratings -->
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*The film garnered an 90% freshness rating on critical site {{W|Rotten Tomatoes}}.
 
*At the 2007 MLB Allstar game, Homer announced the starting lineups and saying something funny about each player: "Chase Utley, wait why would I want to do that?"
 
*At the 2007 MLB Allstar game, Homer announced the starting lineups and saying something funny about each player: "Chase Utley, wait why would I want to do that?"
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*'''''[[wikipedia:An Inconvenient Truth|An Inconvenient Truth]]''''': The name of Lisa's lecture, An Irritating Truth, is a play on Al Gore's documentary.
 
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*'''''[[wikipedia:Full Metal Jacket|Full Metal Jacket]]''''': The bomb disposal robot was based on Vincent D'Onofrio's character Leonard "Pyle" Lawrence, who commits suicide in a similar way.
 
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*'''''[[wikipedia:Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi|Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]]''''': At the end of the film, the crowd's celebration is similar to the conclusion of the final ''Star Wars'' film, with Carl performing the exact same hand gestures as Lando Calrissian.
 
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*Independence Day: The scene where the EPA Dome is delivered to Springfield (notably the immense shadow covering Springfield and the People's reactions) resembles the Alien Destroyers positioning themselves over Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles scenes in the movie.
 
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In the 35th Annual Annie Awards, ''The Simpsons Movie'' was nominated for Best Animated Feature, Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Writing in an Animated Feature Production and Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production, but lost all four to ''{{W2|Ratatouille|film}}''.<ref name="Annie2007">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120208102916/http://annieawards.org/35thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>
  
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Movie Information
Directed by: David Silverman
Produced by: James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Al Jean
Mike Scully
Richard Sakai
Written by: James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Al Jean
Ian Maxtone-Graham
George Meyer
David Mirkin
Mike Reiss
Mike Scully
Matt Selman
John Swartzwelder
Jon Vitti
Starring: Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer
Albert Brooks
Tress MacNeille
Music by: Hans Zimmer
Danny Elfman
Editing by: John Carnochan
Studio: Gracie Films
Film Roman
Rough Draft Feature Animation
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release dates: July 26, 2007 (UK and Australia)
July 27, 2007 (United States)
Running time: 87 minutes
Blackboard text: "I will not illegally download this movie."
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $75-million
DVD features

The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 feature-length film based on The Simpsons. It is produced by Gracie Films for 20th Century Fox with animation produced by Film Roman and Rough Draft Studios and was released worldwide July 27, 2007. Individual producers of the film include James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, and Richard Sakai and was written by eleven of the television series' most prolific writers: Scully, Jean, Brooks, Groening, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder, and Jon Vitti. The film was directed by David Silverman, a former supervising director of The Simpsons TV series. The film stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden and Tress MacNeille.

Synopsis

"A dome is put over Springfield after Lake Springfield is heavily polluted by Homer. An angry mob chase the Simpson family out of town. Soon afterwards, the family find Springfield is going to be blown up..."


Plot

Intro

The movie starts with the usual 20th Century Fox intro, with Ralph humming the tune, then echoed with instruments. A screen purposely smaller than the viewers' screen appears, and an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon plays. Itchy and Scratchy land on the moon. Itchy stabs Scratchy with a flagpole and abandons him. Back on Earth, Itchy becomes a hero by lying about Scratchy's death and is seen campaigning for president, with Hillary Clinton as his vice president.

In his office, he sees Scratchy is still alive and holding up a sign that says "I'm telling." Itchy ponders what to do and eventually decides to commence an "accidental" nuclear launch, sending hundreds of nuclear missiles to the moon. Scratchy screams, swallowing the missiles. After his stomach is full, the last missile stops at the stomach, takes a boot out of the tip, and kicks Scratchy, who then explodes. His brain, head, heart, and gullet can be seen. The entire scene is revealed to be a movie that the Simpsons and most of Springfield are watching in a theater. Homer stands up and calls the movie boring. He announces that he could have watched the TV show at home for free rather than paying for tickets and then calls everyone in the theater a giant sucker for doing so, before pointing at the viewer in a fourth-wall break, yelling, "Especially YOU!"

The Simpsons opening intro then begins, except that instead of just the usual title floating toward the viewer through the clouds, Professor Frink flies by on a flying bike with a banner attached that reads "MOVIE," forming the movie title. The screen then expands after Frink says, "Movie...on the big screen." The camera then flies through Springfield, showing Smithers putting toothpaste on Mr. Burns' toothbrush, causing Burns to collapse, Apu changing the expiration date on a milk carton from 2006 to 2008, Martin Prince getting flagpoled by Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney at the school, Bart's Chalkboard Gag, which reads "I Will Not Illegally Download This Movie," and finally a cut to that night where Green Day is holding a concert at Lake Springfield. As they finish their song (The Simpsons Theme with a rock twist), they try to talk about the environment, which angers the audience into throwing trash at the band. Moe talks to Lisa and then throws a rock at the stage. The pollution in the water dissolves the barge floating on the lake on which Green Day is playing, causing it to sink and killing the band.

Main Story

A naked Bart hits the window of Krusty Burger, where Ned, Rod and Todd Flanders sit eating.

At the church service the next day, there is a tribute to the passing of Green Day, which the Simpsons are late for. Reverend Lovejoy calls upon one of the churchgoers to do the prayer, but not before Ned tells Lovejoy that he has to confess to a "modest sense of pride to our community". Lovejoy then amends his statement to exclude Flanders this time around. Grampa is suddenly possessed and begins to scream of a coming disaster, foreshadowing the events in the film, involving a twisted tail, a thousand eyes, trapped forever and "Eeeepa". This leads Marge to believe that God is sending them a message warning them about a future catastrophe (and is ultimately correct).

The Clogger

Later that day, Homer is doing several chores, including removing a hornets' nest (which he places inside the mailbox of the Flanders) and fixing a sinkhole in the backyard (which he covers with a sandbox). After an unsuccessful attempt to fix the roof, Homer and Bart play a game of dare. Homer dares Bart to climb the TV antenna, and he nearly falls off the house, though he has fun doing so. After Bart shoots at Homer with a BB gun while Homer carries a load of bricks, Homer dares Bart to skateboard to Krusty Burger and back naked. Bart refuses at first but then does so after Homer calls him a "chicken for life", and many people see him do so.

Chief Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie chase him in their patrol car before Lou disables his skateboard by shooting one of the tires, which sends Bart crashing into Krusty Burger's window, in front of Ned and his kids. Lou and Eddie get Bart from the window and leave him handcuffed to a pole, then the police walk into Krusty Burger to get lunch. Nelson, also there, begins laughing at Bart until sundown. Homer then arrives but blames everything on Bart after hearing that he would have to take a parenting course if he admitted that he dared Bart. He gives Bart new clothes but forgets to bring his pants. Walking into Krusty Burger, Ned shows fatherly compassion toward Bart by providing him pants. Before Bart can yell at Homer, Homer adopts a pig as a pet when Krusty the Clown orders it to be killed shortly after taping a commercial nearby.

Meanwhile, Lisa tries to get signatures for a petition to clean up Lake Springfield (unsuccessfully). She meets an Irish boy named Colin, who is doing exactly the same thing as Lisa. Colin just moved in, and his father is a musician (Lisa thinks it is Bono, but Colin refutes her). Lisa starts to develop a crush on Colin after finding out that he can play five different instruments.

Marge obtains cell phone footage of Grampa's outburst at church recorded by Comic Book Guy. She becomes confused at the meaning of "Eeepa", to which Comic Book Guy responds, "I believe that's the sound the Green Lantern made when Sinestro threw him into a vat of acid". When Homer shows Marge his new pig, Marge remembers what Grampa said about a "twisted tail" and pleads for Homer to get rid of it. However, Homer wins her over by showing her that the pig can imitate her squeal and his belching.

Bart is outside feeling alone, while Homer ignores him over Spider-Pig. This prompts Bart to angrily aim his slingshot at Homer, but Ned calms him down, offering Bart to go fishing with him. Bart feels after some thought that it is probably a good idea, especially as the only time he went fishing with his dad, Homer ended up using a bug zapper to cheat, which also resulted in him being electrified. While fishing, Bart accidentally lets go of Ned's best rod. To his surprise, however, Ned does not react violently as Homer would, and Bart starts to develop a father-son bond with him.

Lisa and Colin combine their efforts to give a presentation called "An Irritating Truth" at Town Hall. But because the average Springfielder could care less about the environment, she reveals that she put the lake water in their drinking glasses, causing everyone to spit out the water they just drank. The tactic is successful, Mayor Quimby declares a state of emergency, and the entire townspeople tidy Lake Springfield. Mayor Quimby proves the effectiveness of their "idiot-proof" barrier by telling Cletus to try dumping a dead possum in the lake, only for him to walk into the concrete barricade.

"I've invented a machine that can dig through anything and here it is... just outside of the dome"

Marge realizes Homer keeps the pig's waste in a silo (including his own), which horrifies her. She tells Homer to dispose of it safely and encourages him to take Spider-Pig with him, but he states that he has renamed him "Harry Plopper". While waiting in a queue at the waste disposal plant, Homer gets a phone call from Lenny, who says that Lard Lad Donuts has been shut down by the health inspector and that they are giving away all their donuts for free. In a rush to get to the giveaway, Homer drives to the lake, ignoring the no-dumping signs and smashing through the concrete barrier with no damage to his car, and dumps the silo into the now wonderfully clean lake, causing it to become heavily re-polluted almost instantly. Shortly after, a squirrel falls in and becomes severely mutated, giving it "a thousand eyes"—another part of Grampa's prophetical vision.

Nearby, Ned and Bart bond during a hike and discover the mutated squirrel, which is then captured by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Russ Cargill, head of the EPA, tells President Schwarzenegger that Springfield is so polluted that the government must take drastic action. He provides Schwarzenegger with five options, and the president picks option 3 at random without looking, saying he was elected to "lead, not to read".

Option 3 traps the entire town of Springfield under a gigantic dome. A hundred helicopters hoist the dome over the town and place it upon Springfield (flattening a man in the process), horrifying the inhabitants. Marge sees the letters "EPA" on the side of the helicopter and realizes that Grampa's prophecy has come true. After several futile attempts to crack the dome by the police and Sideshow Mel, Cargill appears on a gigantic television screen and explains to the citizens of Springfield that their lake has become extremely polluted and, to prevent the pollution from spreading, they trapped them under the dome, removing Springfield from the state map in the process.

Lisa states that they've cleaned up the lake, but Cargill responds by saying that someone did not get the message—implying Homer, who tells Plopper to act natural. Kent Brockman reports the incident, which he calls "Trappuccino", and mentions a shortage of supplies like gasoline and Botox. He also reports on swallows being devoured by cats after crashing against the dome upon their return to Springfield and advertises "Dome Depot". Marge claims to see Maggie on the other side of the dome, but when she brings Homer to look, Maggie is inside. When they are not looking, Maggie goes through the sinkhole that Homer covered with the sandbox, ending up on the other side, and then returns back inside.

Homer eating a shrimp with his tongue

The police soon discover the silo in the lake with the words "Please return to Homer Simpson, No Reward" written on the side. Homer and Marge see a live news broadcast of the discovery, and Marge yells at Homer for not listening to her warning, but Homer simply says, "Nobody watches the channel anyway." Contrary to his belief, within seconds, a massive angry mob of Springfield's citizens (except for the Flanders family) approaches the Simpson home intending to kill him. Homer fears the mob will go after his family, but they interject that they just want him—even Grampa joins the mob.

Ned tells Bart and his family to crawl on a plank to his house, but the children, led by Principal Skinner, prepare to fire arrows at them. Plopper pushes the plank off the windowsill, causing the family to fall and narrowly miss the arrows. Homer lands on a barbecue grill and, despite the situation, eats a shrimp, commenting that his luck is beginning to turn. The family runs to their car, but Marge runs back into the flaming house to get their wedding video (and wash a dish) before escaping to the car. However, their escape is futile as the mob picks up the car and moves it toward the backyard.

The mob prepares a noose for each member of the Simpson family, including Maggie (whose noose has a red pacifier attached). The family escapes onto the treehouse by climbing the nooses, but Homer gets stuck on one. He attempts to apologize to the crowd but gets hit in the face with the non-blade side of a power saw thrown by a mob member. Lenny and Carl chain Otto Mann's school bus to the treehouse, and Otto attempts to pull it down while Grampa points and cocks a shotgun at them.

The family barely escapes when Maggie shows them an escape route through the sinkhole in the sandbox. Homer, due to his size, gets trapped in the sinkhole but eventually slips through, though not before his head gets clawed by the mob. Wiggum, Lou, and Eddie shoot at the sandbox, but in the process, cause the sinkhole to grow larger. The townspeople flee as the sinkhole devours the Simpson house, including the car, the treehouse, and even Santa's Little Helper's doghouse.

As the Simpsons look solemnly at the remains of their house, Lisa sees Colin next to the dome. He tries to play her a song on his guitar, but she cannot hear him, so he writes the notes on the dome instead. Lisa shares a moment with Colin, but Bart interrupts, ranting, "Lisa has a boyfriend that she'll never see again!" She punches him in the face before the family is forced to flee as Cargill and his men arrive. Cargill, now mad with power, is determined to keep anyone from escaping the dome and to capture the Simpsons.

An angry mob of Springfieldians hunting for Homer Simpson.

On the Run

While hiding from the EPA in Red Rash Inn (and having a very close call with two gay policemen, who actually arrive at the Inn to make out), Marge catches Bart drinking whiskey to "drown his sorrows." He announces that he misses Ned before passing out. The family later confronts Homer, demanding to know why he dumped the silo into the lake. Homer admits that he never thought about his decision and apologizes to the family. To make it up to them, he presents a solution he had prepared for if he ever screwed up so badly: he proposes that the entire family move to Alaska. While Marge is hesitant at first, Homer eventually convinces her to follow him.

The next day, the family is at a carnival, where a carny offers his truck to anyone who can ride a motorcycle in the Ball of Death within three tries. However, Homer fails three times, so the carny gives him another try just to see him get hurt. Lisa advises her father not to stop when he reaches the top, enabling him to win. As the Simpsons drive off in their new truck, the carny's Siamese wives are not happy because the carny had forgotten that he was supposed to take them on vacation.

While stopping for gas, Marge expresses pride in Bart for staying sober. Bart proves it by using his slingshot to knock a hot dog out of Homer's hand, but Homer immediately pulls another hot dog out of his pocket. Marge tries to tell Bart to give Homer another chance, but she is cut off when she sees a wanted poster showing their family. She distracts the clerk while Bart draws over the poster to match the appearance of a similar-looking family who has just walked in.

The similar-looking family.

Meanwhile, back in Springfield, power outages plague the surviving populace. In Burns' manor, Apu, Wiggum, and Dr. Hibbert ask Burns for electricity. Burns demands good reasons to comply, warning that he will release the hounds otherwise. Hibbert states he needs power to help patients at the hospital, and Wiggum says he needs it to fry a convict in the morning. Apu tries reasoning with Burns but realizes he has said the wrong thing. Burns releases the hounds, forcing them to flee from the manor.

The Simpson family reaches Alaska and gets a new house, deciding to rebuild their lives there. Homer and Marge share a private moment of intimacy while getting snowed in—thanks to Bart, who causes an avalanche by clapping repeatedly outside.

In Springfield, the situation deteriorates even further. The townspeople are about to reach the breaking point after 93 days without supplies, electricity, or outside air. The Springfield Book Club, consisting of Helen Lovejoy, Cookie Kwan, Lindsey Naegle, Bernice Hibbert, Luann Van Houten, and Agnes Skinner, meets up. Helen suggests discussing "Tuesdays with Morrie," but Cookie complains that if they do not get a new book, she will puke. The meeting ends with Lindsey angrily throwing her book at Helen. The book flies out the window and knocks over the coffee machine inside the church during an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

Barney Gumble finally snaps and makes a futile attempt to crack the dome, followed by the rest of the Springfieldians. They use everything from battering rams and jackhammers to shovels and boxing gloves. Cargill observes this from a security camera and tells the President that they cannot keep Springfield in this state forever. He warns that if the townspeople escape, the world will find out, leading to bureaucratic investigations. Cargill then asks the President to choose another plan from five options but manipulates him into choosing Option 4: Blow Up Springfield.

Saving Springfield

In Alaska, the family is peacefully rebuilding their lives until one night they see a commercial featuring Tom Hanks about the "New Grand Canyon" being built, located east of Shelbyville and south of Capital City. This happens to be where Springfield is located. Marge and the kids decide that they must save Springfield, but Homer refuses to help the town that tried to kill them. Even after Marge repeats the same line he used to convince her to move to Alaska and Bart calls him a bad father—wishing that Ned were his dad—Homer responds by angrily strangling him. He declares that he is staying in Alaska and storms out of the house to go to Eski-Moe's Bar to drink and play a "Grand Theft Walrus" arcade game.

The next day, he returns home only to discover that Marge has left a videotape. She and the kids have gone to save Springfield, and to prove she has ended their marriage, she has taped over their wedding video. Heartbroken, Homer runs out to find his family but is nearly mauled by a polar bear. He is saved by an Inuit shaman, who drags him to her hut and tells him he must have an epiphany. She begins the art of throat singing, sending Homer into a dreamworld where he tries to find enlightenment. He is slapped, punched, and kicked by "epiphitrees" before they pull his body apart, leading him to realize that he cannot survive without others and must save Springfield and his family. He begins his journey back, using a sled dog team that quickly turns on him and runs off when they stop to rest. Left to walk, he starts to lose hope until the northern lights transform into the shaman, who points the direction of Springfield with her breasts.

Meanwhile, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart arrive at a Seattle train station to inform the world of the EPA's plot. Unbeknownst to them, a robotic drone from the National Security Agency overhears their conversation, and they are immediately arrested by Cargill upon arrival.

Homer gets closer to Springfield and is able to see the dome. While observing it (using imaginary binoculars that somehow work), he hears saxophone music coming from an armored van and realizes that his family is inside. He attempts to rescue them by knocking over the truck with a wrecking ball, but the plan backfires, and he is painfully hit by the wrecking ball instead. Bart tries to break his handcuffs, but the truck drivers fill the compartment with tranquilizer gas, knocking the family out.

Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie wake up to find themselves back in Springfield, now in ruins. They encounter Moe Szyslak, who is dressed in a bathrobe, a traffic cone, and bullets, having proclaimed himself Emperor of Springfield (though his leadership was unsuccessfully challenged by Barney). Just then, Cargill reappears on the giant screen, announcing that placing the dome over Springfield was a mistake and revealing that the government has commenced Operation Soaring Eagle—an ill-named plan that involves killing them all.

"Emperor" Moe

A helicopter arrives and opens a hole at the top of the dome, lowering a small but powerful bomb timed at 15 minutes. As the Springfieldians panic and seek cover, the family realizes that they still miss Homer.

Determined to save his family, Homer disguises himself as General Mariott Suites and knocks out a guard at the site. He grabs a tube of superglue, applies it to each hand, and climbs the dome himself. Carl tells everyone to climb the rope to safety while Cletus distracts Cargill with a thumb trick. Unfortunately, Homer descends the helicopter rope, knocking the escaping townspeople and the bomb off the rope. The bomb's fall freezes its timer in the process. When Bart disowns him, an upset Homer accidentally kicks the bomb, reactivating it and halving the time limit. The townspeople berate him again and proceed to throw objects at him as he runs off, crying.

Bart finds Ned and his sons, Rod and Todd Flanders, inside the Church. Bart wants to be part of Ned's family due to Homer's negligence towards him, and Ned decides to accept him, though Rod and Todd try to warn him not to. Homer sees Marge behind the ruins of a building and tries to get to her but accidentally hits a tree. One of the tree's leaves points towards a motorbike. Knowing what he has to do, he rides the motorbike and grabs the bomb, determined to save Springfield. Before he does so, he finds Bart and the Flanders at the Church. Bart reconciles with Homer after he offers to let Bart hold the bomb, and they cycle up the side of the dome. While cycling around the dome the same way he does at the carnival weeks ago, Homer is about to realize his family's cycle of negligence between the relationship of father and son, only to be interrupted by Marge to "just throw the goddamn bomb." When Homer reaches the top, Bart throws the bomb through the hole mere seconds before it detonates. The explosion cracks the dome, and Homer manages to ride down from the falling pieces of the dome to the slope of Springfield Gorge, managing to make it over. The dome shatters completely into tiny, harmless pieces, and everyone is saved except Dr. Nick, who is crushed by an exceptionally large piece of glass.

While looking at the now-domeless Springfield, Cargill appears, deciding to learn the two things that Harvard doesn't teach: how to cope with defeat and how to handle a shotgun, by killing Homer and Bart, only to be knocked out by Maggie.

Lisa is told by Milhouse that Colin died when they were away, only for him to appear afterward. Lisa suggests going to clean the lake up, but Colin suggests getting some ice cream, which Lisa agrees to. As the defeated Cargill is fired from his job and arrested for his crimes, the town forgives and praises Homer, who rides off with Marge on the motorbike into the sunset and intimately kisses her. The movie ends with the people of Springfield rebuilding the Simpsons' house and restoring things back to the way they were, as Homer and Bart fix the roof like earlier in the film, and Homer accidentally gets the needle in his leg and screams as Bart laughs, ending the movie.

Credits

The credits pause, showing Smithers comforting Burns in his looted manor. The depressed millionaire tells Smithers that, even though he doesn't believe in suicide, if he would like to try it, it might cheer him up to watch. The credits briefly pause again, showing Tom Hanks asking the audience that if they see him in real life, to leave him be.

While the credits roll, the Simpsons are (still) watching the movie in a theater, and Lisa wants to see that no animals are harmed during filming, which she does. Before they leave, Maggie says "sequel." Near the end of the credits, the townspeople are heard singing the Springfield National Anthem, which is based on the French National Anthem, *La Marseillaise*, due to Springfield admitting that they don't have their own anthem. Therefore, they stole the tune by paying a short guy to write it, but they never see him again. They note that the French do outstanding things like making love, wine, and Roquefort, Camembert, and Brie cheese. At the very end of the credits, the Squeaky-Voiced Teen cleans up the theater floor, not thinking four years in film school is really worth it.

Opening Sequence

The sequence was completely remade for The Simpsons Movie and features the orchestrated version of "The Simpsons Theme" as adapted by Hans Zimmer, which is slightly different from the first track of The Simpsons Movie: The Music CD. The pre-sequence scene is displayed in a 16:9 television aspect ratio, with black matte bars at either end of the screen. As the sequence begins with the "The Simpsons" logo appearing out of the clouds, Professor Frink flies past in one of his inventions carrying a banner marked "MOVIE" and saying "Moo-vie! On the big screen!!". When he hits the bar on the left side, both it and the one on the right nudge out of view so that the image fills the entire screen.

Instead of going through the P of "SIMPSONS," the camera goes through the O of "MOVIE" as the banner falls loose. The camera zooms in on the town, with several major landmarks popping-up. The camera then zooms in to Mr. Burns, who is holding a toothbrush in his bathroom with Smithers who gives him toothpaste, the extra weight of the toothpaste causes frail Mr. Burns to collapse. The camera then zooms past Moe's Tavern into the Kwik-E-Mart where Apu is secretly changing the expiration date on one of his products from 2006 to 2008. Next the camera cuts to Springfield Elementary where Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney are hoisting Martin Prince up a flagpole by his underwear and saluting it as if it were a flag. The camera then zooms through the window where Bart is writing lines for detention ("I will not illegally download this movie") before finishing with Green Day who are hosting a concert at Lake Springfield, playing their version of the theme song and using a teleprompter to get its "lyrics" right.

Production

Marge freaks out in church
  • Previous The Simpsons film projects failed to develop:
    • Matt Groening mentioned in an interview published in the Summer 1993 issue of Simpsons Illustrated that "maybe someday we'll do a Simpsons movie".
    • The season four episode "Kamp Krusty" was originally going to be a film, but difficulties were encountered in writing a movie length script, at which point the movie plans were dropped in favor of a season premiere.
    • Before his death, Phil Hartman had always wanted to create a live action Troy McClure film, with several of the staff saying that they would have loved to help create it.
    • Matt Groening expressed a wish to make Simpstasia, a parody of the Disney film Fantasia.
  • Production for the movie began in 2001.
  • Numerous plots were considered for this movie: Al Jean suggested the family saving manatees, which became the 2005 episode "The Bonfire of the Manatees", and there was a The Truman Show-style notion of the characters discovering their lives were a TV show, which Groening rejected due to his rule "that the Simpsons never become aware of themselves as celebrities", however this idea was later put in as the plot in The Simpsons Game where the family discover that their lives are a video game.
  • 94 characters have speaking parts.
  • Series regulars Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Joe Mantegna, and Maggie Roswell reprised their roles for the film. Albert Brooks plays Russ Cargill, Green Day and Tom Hanks play themselves.
  • Minnie Driver recorded the part of a patronizing grievance counselor in a scene that was cut, as were Edward Norton, Isla Fisher and Erin Brockovich's scenes, and Kelsey Grammer's as Sideshow Bob.
  • Hans Zimmer provided the score, rather than regular composer Alf Clausen.
  • Originally, Marge was supposed to freak out in church. This was later changed to Grampa.
  • It had a secret code name "Yellow Harvest".[1]
  • A scene with Homer and Plopper was scrapped.[1]
  • Although credited, Patty, Selma, Edna Krabappel, Groundskeeper Willie, Jimbo Jones and Kang did not have speaking parts in the final cut, the first three had parts in the DVD's deleted scenes, Jimbo is heard grunting when Martin hits him with a plank of wood, and Willie is heard cheering with the other Springfieldians. Kodos was also in one version of the movie; he and Kang slated the film over the end credits, however this was cut after a test screening.[2]
    • Kang: At least the pig was cute.
    • Kodos: Yeah, until he vanished halfway through the picture!
  • Movie Deleted Scene Script 1.jpg
  • Movie Deleted Scene Script 2.jpg
  • There is an unused scene with Russ Cargill, Mr. Burns and Smithers.[3]
  • Movie Deleted Scene Script 3.jpg

Marketing and release

Homer Simpson sitting on his couch in a Superman t-shirt and briefs in the teaser trailer that debuted on March 31, 2006.
  • In 'Treehouse of Horror XVII', first shown on November 5, 2006, in the credits executive producer Al Jean's name had the date of the release as a middle name.
  • A teaser trailer for the film was attached to the film Ice Age: The Meltdown from March 31, 2006 onwards; the same trailer was then broadcast during the April 2 episode of The Simpsons, "Million-Dollar Abie".
  • In July 2006, two clips of early, black and white, unfinished animatic footage from the film were shown to audiences during a Simpsons panel at Comic-Con 2006, with a third animatic clip being released on the The Simpsons The Complete Ninth Season DVD boxset.
  • A 1½-minute-long trailer was then shown on November 12, 2006, immediately after the second act of The Simpsons episode "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)".
  • Another 1½-minute trailer appeared on The Sun newspaper's website on December 11, 2006.
  • On the February 14, 2007, episode of American Idol, footage was shown of the contestants attending a private screening where they were shown an early preview of the first theatrical trailer. The same trailer was then shown during The Simpsons episode "Springfield Up" on February 18, 2007, and was made available online shortly afterwards.
  • A short TV spot was then aired during the episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want".
Marge and Homer look at the silo in their back yard in the animatic included on the season 9 DVD set.
  • McFarlane Toys released a line of action figures based on the film, these include Ned Flanders and Bart looking over a rock at a character that is covered by a "Top Secret Character" logo. Others include Bart skateboarding naked having been dared by Sherri and Terri (changed to Homer in the actual film), Homer and Plopper, and Itchy & Scratchy in "Presidential Politics". Also a series of "movie mayhem" figures, depicting the family in a cinema, were released.
  • The Simpsons Game was released to coincide with the film's DVD release.
  • Samsung released a special Simpsons Movie phone, and Microsoft released a limited edition Simpsons Xbox 360.
  • Other merchandise that was released includes a The Simpsons Movie donut-shaped stress reliever, as well as a badge pack.
  • As a promotion for the film, twelve 7-Eleven stores across the United States and Canada were transformed into Kwik-E-Marts, and sell Squishees, Buzz Cola and Krusty-O's Cereal.
  • The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "irreverent humor throughout". The rating had been expected by the production staff.
  • Fox held a competition between sixteen Springfields across the United States to host the American premiere, with Springfield, Vermont being selected as the winner.
  • Test screenings were held in Portland, Oregon and Tempe, Arizona.
  • The film made a total of $526,417,972 worldwide at the box-office.[4]
  • The film garnered an 90% freshness rating on critical site Rotten Tomatoes.
  • At the 2007 MLB Allstar game, Homer announced the starting lineups and saying something funny about each player: "Chase Utley, wait why would I want to do that?"
  • The film was the most watched film of summer 2007 in Europe and many states.
  • Various toys based off characters were included in Big Kids Meals at Burger Kings.

Awards

The Simpsons Movie was nominated for and won several awards.

In the 35th Annual Annie Awards, The Simpsons Movie was nominated for Best Animated Feature, Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Writing in an Animated Feature Production and Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production, but lost all four to Ratatouille.[5]

Promo Video

In other languages

Language Name Translation
Germany.png Deutsch "Die Simpsons – Der Film" The Simpsons Movie
Spain flag.png Español "Los Simpson: la película" The Simpsons Movie
Hispanic America.gif Español "Los Simpson: la película" The Simpsons Movie
France.png Français "Les Simpson, le film" The Simpsons Movie
Flag of Quebec.svg.png Français "Les Simpson, le film" The Simpsons Movie
Italy Flag.png Italiano "I Simpson - Il film" The Simpsons Movie
Brasil Flag.png Português "Os Simpsons - o Filme" The Simpsons Movie
Flag of Japan.png 日本語 "ザ・シンプソンズ MOVIE" The Simpsons Movie

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Al Jean's Twitter (account closed)
  2. ↑ Springfield Confidential Chapter 6
  3. ↑ That Guy's Twitter
  4. ↑ Box Office Mojo. The Simpsons Movie.
  5. ↑ The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 35th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2007)" (archived on Wayback Machine)


External links


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