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| Movie stardom turns everyone into monsters, it seems. |
The Simpsons go to a football game between Springfield U and Springfield A&M not to watch the game, but to enjoy the tailgating food beforehand. Lisa is initially bored with the whole thing, but with Marge's push, Lisa decides to simply film the things that occur during the tailgate, enjoying the supposed 'artistic' side of reality. She turns in the video to her AV class, but gets only a 3/5. Lisa goes to Principal Skinner to complain, but Skinner sees the video as something more than a 5/5, he believes Lisa is a natural filmmaker, and that he's more than willing to help Lisa create another film in the eventual hope that she'll win an Oscar and give it to him. Lisa agrees to make another film, and Skinner gives her the perfect thing for the film to be about: her family.
As Lisa starts filming her family, Superintendent Chalmers visits Skinner, and the two agree that Lisa's film is of utmost importance, agreeing to submit Lisa's film to the Sundance Film Festival upon its completion. The ultra-hipster film committee there loves Lisa's background, and accepts the movie on that alone without actually watching the movie. The Simpson are invited to the festival where they get to see Lisa's movie. However, the film actually paints the members in a rather negative light, yet the movie is huge hit with the audience. The family gets mad at Lisa for how the movie portrayed them (especially after the film admits Lisa did the editing as well), and they grow tired of the crowd constantly hounding and mocking them.
Lisa regrets what she's done, but she is met by another filmmaker, the notable(?) Jim Jarmusch. He takes Lisa to watch another film, also submitted by Skinner and Chalmers (who have since become big shots at Sundance). This film, which chronicles Nelson's awful life, becomes an even bigger hit, and the present-minded Sundance audience have forgotten about the Simpsons so they can praise their new lords, the Muntz family. Lisa thanks Jarmusch for his help, and the family forgives Lisa for her movie, admiring her quirky way of showing her love for them.
Quick Review
This was another mostly boring episode. To be fair, Jim Jarmusch provided a much better guest spot than what I was expecting and his presence helped boost the episode. However, the combination of Skinner and Chalmers, usually a rock-solid source of comedy, started to hinder the episode once they teamed up at Sundance, which hurt the episode. The "production company" the two create in this episode, ChalmSkin, is referenced often in later episodes, and always very poorly. In all, its another weak entry as the season falls to a disastrous close.
Final Score: 6.0
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