I enjoyed The Simpsons movie (See my review here) but I wasn’t thrilled with it… and it certainly wasn’t worth waiting nearly 20 years for. Still, it was pretty entertaining for what it was and it gets full marks for that. However, you can’t deny that the marketing for the movie was pretty good.
Now, with the Simpsons DVD set to be released on December 10th, they’ve got another interesting little marketing ploy. On the website, you can create a Simpsons Avatar of yourself (yes yes… we’ve seen them before) and you can print out an alternate DVD cover for the film with YOU on the cover. It’s such a simple idea… yet very clever.
Some of the other Simpsons DVD details:
Special Features include:
Homer’s Monologue On The Tonight Show
The Simpsons Judge American Idol
Homer Introduces American Idol
Let’s All Go To The Lobby
Alternate Character Designs by the Directors and Matt Groening.
Commentary by, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, David Silverman, Dan Castellaneta, and joined by Yeardley Smith
· Directors Commentary by David Silverman, Mike B. Anderson, Steven Dean Moore and Rich Moore
· Deleted scenes
o Russ Cargill – “Levels”
o Springfield News
o DMV
o Sausage Truck
o Emperor Moe
o Alternate Ending
· Special Stuff
The Simpsons Movie DVD Details
Release date: Monday 10th December 2007
Running time: 83 minutes
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Price: £19.99
Aspect ratio: 16×9, 2.40LBX
Certificate: PG
Blu-Ray Disc Specs:
The Simpsons Movie BD release will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4 compression) on a dual-layer 50 GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio plus English, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The disc will feature all of the above special features in high-def.
