The Simpsons (TV Series) Any Given Sundance (2008) User Reviews

Enjoyable and Different Simpsons Episode,

[lesleyharris30 · 8/10 · 8 July 2014]

Any Given Sundance is a great Simpsons episode with a well written storyline and some very funny scenes.It was a very fun and different episode,I liked seeing Lisa make a documentary about her family and taking it to the Sundance Film Festival,the documentary was very funny and a lot of references to films were made at the festival as well.The highlights of the episode had to be Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers production studio,every scene with them was so funny,my favourite part of the whole episode was definitely John C. Reilly's cameo as he talks to Skinner and Chalmers about having a part in their next film,I really appreciated this part.Any Given Sundance isn't the finest episode of the nineteenth season,but it's still a very enjoyable Simpsons episode.

The Simpsons are shocked and upset with Lisa when she makes a popular independent film for the Sundance Film Festival that displays them in a negative manner.

Another above average episode

[studioAT · 6/10 · 11 January 2020]

Lisa turns to filmmaking in this fun episode from the 19th series.

The Simpsons has a rich history for mocking Hollywood, and this episode continues in that vein.

I enjoyed this episode because it was consistently funny, with a good story that didn't falter in the final act.

The 'Cheaper by the Dozen 3' joke was my favourite.

Capturing The Goodness

[e_daneva · 7/10 · 25 December 2023]

Any Given Sundance was an amazing episode. I have watched 18 other Season 19 episodes, and there was 5 bad, 7 okay, 2 good, and 5 really good. This episode falls in the good category. This episode is just really funny and cool. I liked the plot and the documentaries to. This episode was obviously worse than the classic A Star Is Burns, but it is still a great Season 19 episode. This is just a very captive too. It has some great jokes about screenplay, and it has some great celebrity cameos. This is an above average Season 19 episode. I recommend you to watch this. What a good episode. In all, I give this a 7.4.

A Chalmskinn Production

[safenoe · 10/10 · 13 November 2023]

Chalmskinn Productions is a film company run by Principal Seymour Skinner and Superintendent Gary Chalmers, and you can say it's kind of their side-gig job which we learn more about in Any Given Sundance, an episode worthy of the golden era, which in my humble opinion is the first 10 seasons.

Anyway, Nelson Muntz, who started as the typical school-yard bully and tormentor of Bart, becomes a more complex character here and somewhat empathetic. The cameos of Jim Jarmusch and John C. Reilly were very inspired and the only cameo missing was Robert Redford himself, the founder of Sundance Film Festival.

I watch all ChalmSkin movies

[ExPresidents · 10/10 · 12 March 2023]

Best production company in the history of film. I own everything they've put out on DVD and Blu-Ray, even Laserdisc.

What sets them apart is their clinging fidelity to the ratio of proportioned experience, the trauma-guilt separation from to his mother and girl to her mother, otherwise know as Oedipus and Electra. But what really defines them is the circumaural navigation among hi-fidelity audio systems blasting symphonic black metal. If you've read this far and agree with anything I say or even pretend to understand it, understand this: you are insane.

ChalmSkin does not exist.

But The Simpsons do!

As its year of airing indicates, this is just not very good. Still, it has Jim Jarmusch, John C. Reilly and Woody Allen!

[RainDogJr · 28 December 2009]

*Dec/04/09*

Yesterday I tuned the Simpsons on National TV. I saw the last part of that hilarious 1999 episode with Mel Gibson as the guest star and this one (certainly it was a film-related Simpsons night). Frankly, after I stopped to have some great laughs with the last minutes of that mentioned Mel Gibson episode I was ready to change the channel to enjoy the programmed soccer post-season game but then Homer Simpson announced the episode (here after the couch gag, when we see in the TV of the Simpsons the credit of Matt Groening we get to know the title of the episode and is the voice of Homer the one that mentions the title) that was about to begin and I was like "Sundance = the episode featuring Jim Jarmusch! I must check it out".

And it was worth watching but, and unfortunately is a big but, only because of the guest stars. Yes, the plot in this one, Any Given Sundance, is very thin: Lisa finds her passion for film-making and makes a film about her family, which is eventually submitted and accepted in the Sundance Film Festival. The promise is certainly not bad but the plot gets thin and way too conventional once everybody in Sundance sees Lisa's film (the film itself could have been funnier). There's a sort of subplot with Skinner and the Superintendent Chalmers as film producers. It begins in a cheap way: the invention that Skinner is a cinephile. But this thing delivers some good laughs (John C. Reilly tries hard to get a part in one of Skinner's scripts) so is forgivable the random thing of having Skinner as a fan of Ingmar Bergman (and yes, was funny the Oscar joke), but still is, I think, a fine example to point out why this is not a good written episode since it feels forced while we get to the part of Lisa making a film about her family.

This was the very first Season 19 episode that I saw and I get no pleasant surprise since it isn't very funny and aside of some bits (again, mostly thanks to the guest stars) there is nothing memorable here. The presence of Jim Jarmusch was the one and only reason I really wanted to check this episode and fortunately most of his bits are great (the best is the first one with Jarmusch and Homer. And boy, Jarmusch accepted to direct the new Cheaper by the Dozen film!). But for me is the bit with Woody Allen the one that takes the cake as the best joke! Also is great the reference to The 400 Blows... basically great bits like those didn't deserve to be part of a mediocre episode like this one. If you can only watch those bits you will not miss anything.

A Quite Good Episode, With One Very Irritating flaw:

[AJB2002 · 14 July 2020]

This episode is fine, it is perfectly enjoyable to a point, - however - yet again I find that a certain character gets away with acting like a scumbag without recieving any punishment, or even really feeling bad about it at all. Of course, I am talking about Lisa Simpson, just like in the episode Summer of 4"2" Lisa acts like a jerk and gets away with it. There was no apology from her at the end, she lied about her editing the film, only for the film to expose her as a liar immediately, the only tiny bit of justice she got. This is another episode I can add to the now very long list of episodes that make me dislike Lisa Simpson.