So after nearly twenty years on television the Simpsons are moving to the big screen. Please, keep the thunderous applause to a minimum folks.

The point here is that the trailer released on Sunday looks awful. Hell, awful is being nice. I felt ripped off watching just a minute long trailer.

I can live with one of the best animated television shows refusing to die. Fine. But does the name of 2D animation need to be dragged kicking and screaming through the mud too? Was this part of some unholy animation union pact I missed? This promo goes out of its way to say that it is 2D, only to lie in the very next scene.

- Homer drives some sort of 3D construction equipment. A fluke?
- Nope, the whole world is 3D.
- The ground, the construction ball, the trees - all 3D.
- Even the truck!
- (...)
- It may be safer to list the things that aren't 3D.

Now, the irony here is that ten years ago I may have cared about a Simpson movie. Maybe even eight years ago, but that would be sort of pushing it. Today the series' episodes appeal to the very troglodites (who dance in creepy unison) which the show once went out of of its way to scorn. The bigger issue here is that the movie has been in writing for that long as well. After all of this time in the making Time magazine's "Greatest Show of the Century" better make up for a crappy decade...and quick.