You’ve got to hand it to Matt Groening, he definitely knows how to build up the hype:
LONDON (Reuters) - The upcoming Simpsons movie takes a typically irreverent dig at religion and environmentalists, and features a nude scene involving ‘toon teen Bart that had the audience at a preview show applauding.
A 10-minute clip from “The Simpsons Movie”, the first time Homer, Marge, their family and friends have made it to the big screen, was shown in London late on Wednesday ahead of its release worldwide later in July.
And, it looks like there will be enough in the movie to offend everyone:
Series creator Matt Groening, speaking to the audience after the clips were screened, said he expected complaints.
“In America there’s someone willing to pretend to be offended by everything and so we annoy people and that’s part of the appeal,” he said. “It’s to entertain people and also to annoy a certain segment of the audience as well.”
Series writer Al Jean agreed that there were big themes in the film, particularly the environment, but that the movie’s makers did not obviously take sides.
“They are big themes, especially the environmental theme, but we always like to approach it from both sides, so later in the film when Lisa’s giving a lecture about the pollution, the label of the lecture is ‘An Irritating Truth’.”
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore inspired Oscar-winning climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Sounds like fun.
