Everyone keeps talking about a Simpsons movie....as a regular in alt.tv.simpsons I am REALLY starting to get sick of hearing about it. Do you know why there WON'T be a Simpsons movie?? It's because there have been too many good TV shows that have be skewered into TERRIBLE movies (think The Flintstones, The Brady Bunch---which was much more appreciated before the movie, even the JETSONS), and now the first thing that anybody thinks of when they see these shows is the movie spinoff! The writers and producers do NOT want this to happen to their show; they would only release a movie is they KNEW it would get a VERY overly positive response, and with the condition that the show has been in for the last 2.5 years (although season 11 HAS been an improvement over the last two), they aren't going to take any risks. South Park was the exception to the rule becasue the South Park movie didn't FOLLOW the rule -- the movie was what the creators intended the TV show to be, but in the land of the free(?) there's still stupid censorship on television.

Also, MOST of the many people that go into making this show are TOO busy to start a large project like that. If there ever WAS a movie, it wouldn't be until after the show got cancelled.

Oh, and before you recommend "hey, how about a live action movie?", consider that most of the actors look NOTHING like their characters, so imagine a Homer Simpson with a Dennis Franz voice! And remember that most of the actors (with an exception of Yeardly Smith, who has only played Lisa, Mrs Winfield, Maggie in "Bart vs Thanksgiving" and a couple of chorus extras) play multiple characters, so it would be IMPOSSIBLE to keep all of the voices the same.

Read http://www.snpp.com/guides/movie.html for a collection of official quotes from the Simpsons staff on the movie

oh, and if you see ANYTHING about the Simpsons Movie on imdb, remember that this is the same site that once accepted a submission about the Futurama movie, starring Mr T as Fry and French Stewart as Bender!