Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall anybody begging for The Simpsons to return to the big screen. After nearly two decades of fans begging for it, they finally got what they wanted when The Simpsons Movie opened in 2007. How'd that work out for you all, eh? Not so well, I imagine, as the film was bad even by latter season Simpsons standards, and was generally laugh-free. Maybe the second time's the charm, though, as we learned awhile back that they'd be making their return to theaters in The Longest Daycare, a short-film to premier ahead of Fox's Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Hilariously hyping itself as the "summer's shortest trailer", the film centers on baby Maggie Simpson, who somehow ends up back in the Ayn Rand Daycare(hilarious in and of itself) we first visited in season four, and from the very brief footage it looks like all Hell is going to break loose. Marge will make an appearance in the film, and it looks like Maggie's uni-browed nemesis, Baby Gerald, will be back as well.
There's a better chance of The Simpsons finding big screen success in small doses like this than trying to fill 90 minutes. Plus, we'll get to see them in 3D, a rare treat. I'm heading out the door to see Ice Age: Continental Drift right now, so hopefully we get The Longest Daycare before it....
