Product description Hans Zimmer - The Simpsons Movie: The Music Review To embellish The Simpsons' leap from television to cinema screen, creators Matt Groenig and Jim Brooks have taken the surprising step of bypassing Danny Elfman, who wrote the show's sublimely anthemic theme, and Alf Clausen, longtime composer of the show's incidental music, to call in Hollywood royalty in the shape of Hans Zimmer. Zimmer is as Zimmer does: a master of subtle and often deliciously sly musical references that ricochet between parody and pastiche with gleefully inventive abandon. There's colour aplenty, certainly, but nothing to quite match the peculiarly hallucinogenic palette that Springfield is bathed in. Elfman's theme is heard twice here in full - in Zimmer's souped-up orchestral version full of money-no-object bombast, and in a thumping bonus track in which it gets an acid house-crossed with-The X Files-sounding remix from Ryeland Allison. No, I don't know either.More than with most soundtrack albums, the suspicion that something is missing lurks here in nearly every track. Divorced from Groenig's iconic animation and in the absence of contributions from Homer, Bart, Marge et al - a lost opportunity if ever there was one - Zimmer's score, accomplished and polished though it is, never quite stirs the heart or quickens the pulse in quite the way you might expect it to.Soundtrack trainspotters, however, will enjoy Zimmer's freewheeling allusions to other films. Exhibits A, B and C (of many): where 'Release the Hounds' features a twanging guitar that wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino flick, and 'Spider Pig' is a glorious and all-too brief re-working of the Spiderman television theme, the marvellously titled 'You Doomed Us All! Again' echoes early John Williams and throws in a smidgeon of Aaron Copland for good measure. Committed Zimmerians or Simpsonites will undoubtedly snap this. The rest of us will probably get more satisfaction from saving our money for a bag of doughnuts (Mmm.! dough-nuts). --Michael Quinn Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window
R**E
Fun Music
Nice soundtrack album. I bought it used for almost nothing. Otherwise I wouldn't pay full price for it. It's fun!
R**N
The Simpsons.......Movie Soundtrack
All the music from the film (EXCEPT the Green Day version of "The Simpsons" Theme).
H**R
Music
Great composer and great music
V**A
Love it!
I got this as I knew how iconic 'The Simpsons' music is, and to maintain a running theme through very varied genres is a very skilled thing to achieve. Really good CD and great to listen to!
S**K
So much better than the movie it was composed for
Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Simpsons fan and someone who thinks that Homer Simpson may well be the second coming, but the movie was so broken. Hans Zimmer's wonderful score makes it just about tolerable and gives it that extra punch it needed. Avoiding his usual synthy sound and bombastics, Zimmer instead uses a large orchestra and creates new themes and melodies, playing down Danny Elfman's famous theme and giving the movie a signature of its own, and delivers a very warm and infectious score.Of particular note is Lisa's Theme, written for her by Colin in the movie. It's such a sweet melody that echoes vintage Goldsmith of the 80s. Sadly, as with most Zimmer-arranged albums, it's not complete and chronological so it is not featured as its own individual track here, but you'll find it most prominently in "Doomsday is Family Time". The album has been overshadowed by the Spider-pig theme, but don't let that distract you, there's a lot of great stuff on here, it's just a shame it wasn't arranged as featured in the movie. A brilliant remix of the main theme is featured at the end with a fun track called "Recklessly Impulsive".I wish that this score got more recognition. It never gets boring and honestly couldn't have complimented the movie better, but it seems to have been lost in the shuffle of Zimmer's more popular works.
C**E
Average, but worth it for the Spider Pig track
Hans Zimmer is certainly a good sountrack composer and he's done the job well here, but I don't feel the music on its own is anything special really. I mainly wanted to hear the Spider Pig track which always makes me laugh. So unless you really loved the music when you saw the movie, or are a very big Simpsons fan then there's not much here really. I expect when I've seen the movie a few more times it will be nice to listen to the soundtrack and be reminded of the various funny parts though.
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