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Damn good quality compared to the mVs Release
Video I would say is 8.0 at least
Nice and colorful, like the TV Cartoon itself
Quite Impressive
Audio I would give 8.0 as well
Clean and Clear from what I heard
Movie itself was quite Hilarious
right on par with the Usual Simpsons Style Comedy.
I would give it a 9.0

Overall, Very well done Release PUKKA
Thanks CiNTAX for Video
Look forward to more from You guys

Beautiful, well we can really thank CiNTAX for this release. The MVS one would of been perfect, but too much croping.


Great video and great audio on this release.

8/8/X

from sample will edit when watched
v 7.5 bit of blur
a 8
m 10

[From sample: 8/7/? - after watching the whole release: 6/8/7]

Finally, a watchable version of this movie.

From Sample: Video looks good, but a little washed out. Much like Pukka's Ratatouille release. Audio sounds good, too, seems to be direct, but overall little bit tinny. Nothing to write home about, but still above average.

[UPDATE]
After watching the complete release:

I've compared the Video to Pukka's Ratatouille release before, but it definitely doesn't have its reddish tint. Unfortunately the camera wasn't in synch with the picture or something, as there seems to be some kind of.... transparent bar... scrolling through the picture. Ghosting makes picture blurry in scenes with a lot of movement. Both issues are slightly annoying, while the movie is still very watchable they only justify a slightly above average rating IMHO. So Video gets a 6.

Forget about the tinny audio issues I've mentioned previously, sound is fine. No noticeable errors, sounds full, but not DVD/DTS-quality-clean. Audio rated 8 by me.

Movie itself was fine. Not a masterpiece, but entertaining. 7 for movie.

Just finished downloading this version and it's what you'd expect from cartoons. The picture is cleaner, brighter and more defined. Sound is direct and has some life to it. Overall this is a great release from what I've seen. I've just started to skim through it and I'm very happy. Pukka has been around for years, but this summer they've left their imprint on their abilities and dedication to the scene, thanks guys. My rating is based on a TS only so don't try to act like I'm comparing it to a DVD or something.

V-8.5
A-8
M-9

Very nice! Just checked out the sample and it appears to be the best one so far!

Video 8
Audio 9

It's not PUKKA's video source. It's from CINTAX with an English audio track.

V: 7
A: 7
M: 7

Best Simpsons so far.

V: 7.5

Shame none of the releases to date have the subbed scene in english (so you can get the joke) and all have credits missing which again contain jokes. hard to get credits on a TS because of all the audience getting up i guess.
Best to date tho.
Audio is nice and better than all b4 it.
V: 7 (would be 8 if it was english source for caption reasons)
A: 8
M: ? Not watching it yet in full till there is a complete and english version.

The best version to grab if you really need to see this now.

glad they got around to doing this one
cintax video quality was/is great
way better than the other one :]
sound is okay
8/7/10(it's the simpsons!!)

It's nuked for Ghosting

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Good quality other than the German subtitles in certain sections. Video from the German Cintax cam and audio from the MVS RLS im guessing, this is the best out so far.

If you cant wait for a DVD/R5 copy, this ones for you.

Video 7/10
Audio 8/10
Movie 7/10

V: 7
A: 7
M: 7

Just another perfect example of PUKKA doing what they do best and copying some elses hard work and releasing it under their own name and trying to take all the praise,
all the young ones will think its pukkas hard work and praise them Ive no doubt, but those who have being around more than 5 mins know the differance.

Be original for once Pukka and release some of your own work, shame...

Does the Cintax one have the ghosting as well? Hopefully they can fix it.

I still rate this one better. Cropping too much on other one.

V: 6
A: 7
M: ?

another nuke? wow

I finished watching this about 2 1/2 hrs ago... It does indeed have minor ghosting, but its not apparent on most parts, The colors seem pretty good, but there are darker and lighter areas of the screen

The audio was good too, I dont have any huge system though.

7/8/7

movie is ok, havent watched simpsons in forever, I just expected funnier...

Okay after viewing this one, mVs and NoFear, can quite honestly say without a doubt that PUKKA's release is by far the best out so far.

Using the German video source with clean lively English audio is the perfect combo.

NoFears audio was hollow and most likely taken from one of the early CAM's, whereas this one is direct and full.

People who are praising mVs' release are having an absolute joke, the cropping is hideous, colour is horrendous but the audio is okay.

As afore mentioned there are SCRshots that show the differences between the two and if you're still not convinced after those then just grab the samples from all 3 and you'll soon see the difference.

Video - 7
Audio - 9
Simpsons Movie - 7

The 'pickle' shot was hilarious, after all they went through to conceal it and then that... Too funny

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nice to see about full screen footage, still with some minor crop. Image is imho worse than mVs's, but that had some special defected twat/crop factorzz.
Took them long enough to sync Cintax to DA, and still nuked. Even some p2p/usenet uploads were a day earlier. That must hurt, hehe.

nice proper pukka.
it's less crop as the other vid, but not better

V:7
A:8
M:10

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i shall burn it...(onto a dvd :P )

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Originally posted by Anno
Shame none of the releases to date have the subbed scene in english (so you can get the joke)

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side by side

im watching the pukka release and the mvs(or whatever one its cloned from) side by side and the pukka version has a worse flicker, and the contrast is a little high, but the mvs has that guys head in it and is slightly cropped, and the sound isnt as good.

so really its up to you to decide whether you want... great sound and flicker/high contrast (pukka), or good video and cropped, ok sound, and a fat guys head(mvs)

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pukka rls

v - 8
a - 7
m - 9

im watching the pukka release and the mvs(or whatever one its cloned from) side by side and the pukka version has a worse flicker, and the contrast is a little high, but the mvs has that guys head in it and is slightly cropped, and the sound isnt as good.

so really its up to you to decide whether you want... great sound and flicker/high contrast (pukka), or good video and cropped, ok sound, and a fat guys head(mvs)

Just watched it on a normal tv - hardly noticed the ghosting.

for a TS:
v=7.5
A=8
M=7

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This rating is based on a TS

V-7
A-7
M-10

IMO, nuking this rls based on a few minor ghosting scenes is unnecessary.

The video is pretty good for a telesync... THANKS CiNTAX!

The audio is much better than any other release out there... THANKS PUKKA!

The movie... well, what else is there to say... it's The Simpsons, of course the movie is great!

blah, blah, scene, release group discussions removed...

m7
a7
m???love homer so prolly a 10

If this release didn't have the German subtitles it would be alot better. Used Virtualdub to clean up the video a lil bit and removed a lil bit of the scratchiness in the sound and my copy looks pretty damn good!


V- 8 (9 after i fixed it)
A- 8 (10 after a few tweaks)
M- ?? Ain't had a chance to watch it yet. Been trying to fix it

Now that there's a thousand different releases out, I just wanna say that this is the best one. Video is fine, noone stands up during the movie. The German subs that explain what signs and shit say arent too annoying. Audio is also fine and in sync. get this copy.

V: 8.5 didnt see any ghosting
A: 8
M: 8 Really funny, most definately not disappointing

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please,please no more versions of this movie.
V-8
A-8
M-4

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The Brits can dish it out but they sure as hell can't take it.
something they just can't do, sort of like brushing their teeth.
The few crooked ones they have that is.
good by you pricks.

heaps better quality than mvs release. At least you can see the whole thing and itsa not over cropped
V:8.5
A:9
M:9

I don't care about the politics of release groups and who does what or doesn't.
This is a watchable version, and except for the German subs, its good. If its missing something (end credits) cut a point.
No crop, no heads, acceptable color, good sound. Thats all that matters.

7/8/7

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V: 8
A: 9
M: 7

Much better than all those other nasty TS's out there. This is the one to DL.

V: 8
A: 8
M: N/A

Great vid/audio for a TS, one doesn't really need a better quality for a cartoon..
The nuke for ghosting is ridiculous, it's a very minor problem..
Props to PUKKA!

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Originally posted by ol_perfesser
I don't care about the politics of release groups and who does what or doesn't.
This is a watchable version, and except for the German subs, its good. If its missing something (end credits) cut a point.
No crop, no heads, acceptable color, good sound. Thats all that matters.

7/8/7

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8/8/6

Pic - 8 - Great quality. Foreign sub titles only bad part, but who needs them in english anyway? Not even important.

Sound - direct. No complaints. Heard everything clearly

Movie - 6. Disappointed

Well, after watching this movie, I must say it barely kept me entertained. Alot of parts where I was not even paying attention or could care less about. This movie reflects the TV Show - average at best. I have stopped watching the simpsons for about last 5 years because of this. Writing has gone down hill. Jokes, storyline are all sub par.

Family Guy owns the simpsons. Watch the family guy and see how a many more jokes are made which are actually funny.

I do not recommend seeing this movie in the theater. Save it for a rental or cable or download show at best.

I haven't seen the other versions so I can't compare Pukka to the others. But I think this is a nice TS and it's nice to have it at the same time the movie is released. The German subtitles get into the way some but they aren't a major pain.

V: 7.5 - The color isn't great but definitely watchable.

A: 8 - Sounded pretty good to me for a TS.

M: 8 - I enjoyed it but it's just an extended Simpson's episode. I guess in a way this is good because there's no reason to turn it into a big extravaganza.

Anyway this version is fine until a TS with an English source or a screener comes along.

Edit: I just watched it again with the English subtitles. It **IS**
better getting those few jokes. I also raise my V grade to 8 and M grade to 9.

the simpsons

great release too bad the film was crap . thanks pukka nice job

Best version yet 7/8/8 nice one pukka.

Well, i watched the mVs, then NO Fear, then iND, then this one. *If* only the mVs wouldn't have had the video cropped so bad, and all the heads in the way. The mVs would blow this away on sharpness, and overall quality. But thats what we got, so now Pukka brings us a proper. This video is still slightly cropped, but nothing major. You can still see the German subtitles at some places. The brightness is overpowering! Some scenes have parts that are completely washed out. Aside from being so bright, the color red permeates everything. Things that aren't supposed to be red have a red cast to them. (If encoding with TMPGEnc, turn the red way down people.) Besides those two big flaws, the ghosting is very bad. It ruinied any scene that had fast motion. I'm still hoping for a real proper because Pukka's release adds more problems than it fixes.

V - 5
A - 8
M - 7

CATBOX

As usual, I'm late to the party

Okay, so I took my time to watch this release, but I'm very informed now. Hooray.


Video - 8: Highly watchable, though not perfect by any stretch. I suspect if this wasn't an animated film the clarity would be much, much worse. Fortunately for us the cammer managed to pick up the action fairly well, though we're missing the opening bit with Ralph Wiggum singing the Fox theme. There's some minor image distortion in the video; hard to notice as it may be, some things like the scrolling notice about 10 minutes in show the problem perfectly. There's also the aforementioned brightness issue, which seems to vary depending on the area of the screen. My guess is the above two issues are due to the cammer sitting too close to the screen. There's also a noticable "scroll" to the image (someone described it as an invisible bar); this is due to the shutter speed of the cammer's rig not being adjusted properly, though to be fair very few small digicams have adequate shutter speed settings. Also, the "motion blur" on this movie is remarkably high, but I suspect it's simply more noticable due to it being an animated film, rather than there being something wrong with the capture setup.


Audio - 9: Really quite good. There's an incredibly light hiss to it in a few places, but everything comes through loud and clear. There's even some decent bass to it, and while the sound isn't really stereo, it isn't precisely mono either. Certain effects like crowd noises will often have different left and right channel elements, though most of it is mono audio. The only other issue is that the audio has been lightly stretched in a few places to match up with the video, resulting in a sort of "quickly repeated" or "skipping" effect when this happens. All of these generally occur maybe a few seconds from what would have been a silent or mostly silent section of audio that would have been a better place to stretch the track. I suspect though that Pukka's syncer had to rush to get this thing out before the rest, hence the less-than-perfect job. Oh well, quite listenable all the same. Much better than what I expected for a TS.


Movie - 8: It wasn't the funniest thing I'd ever seen, but it was pretty entertaining. A lot of really good jokes, particularly some that just couldn't be made on broadcast TV. Unfortunately the absolutely hilarious bits have large chunks of just "normal funny" in between them. Still, I think it was a worthwhile film and I hope to see more Simpsons movies in the future. Oh yeah, the subtitle file mentioned earlier does add enough to the film to make it worth it, especially since it's all of 500 bytes in size.


Bottom Line: As best I can tell this is THE release to get at the moment. Certainly the audio is better than anything else out there right now, and will probably remain so even after the R5 inevitably comes out. (Actually, I suspect Pukka will just use the same source for their R5 Line release of the film) The video seems to be about as good as it gets at the moment; I've seen the iND release and it honestly looks the same to me. (Of course, iND is the release group equivalent of Alan Smithee, so who knows if I got the right iND version) Regardless, make sure to download the subtitles for this so you get the captioned jokes. It's only 500 bytes, has been linked to on page two, and has been uploaded to OpenSubtitles as well. No excuse not to pick it up.

dont know what you others guys are looking at but my copy had crap picture and wasnt even the simpsons movie just a couple of episodes stuck together badly

:MOD EDIT: ..not sure if you're serious or just slating the film for being a patchwork of previous episodes. If it's the former, your sources suck. If it's the latter, keep these discussions to the movie discussion (shocker ) thread. -V

V: 8
A: 8
M: 7

Glad to see Matt Groening's original humor shine through again. Very reminisciant of the early seasons. Not as funny but it got the job done!

Good job Pukka.

7/8/6

Awesome Job on this one for sure.

A: 9
V: 9
M: 7.5

5/7/9