Right now there isn't a sequel announced for the Simpsons. Back in September last year, The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean said that there are no plans to make a Simpsons Movie sequel at this time, and there is no movie script at this point. However, themovieblog.com thinks that's bull. In Al Jean's quote, he said that "We wouldn’t want to do it just because the first one was successful, or because we wanted to make money off of a movie." John Campea from themovieblog.com thinks that when studios say they're not doing it for the money, they're lying.
Personally, I thought the Simpsons movie was great. I saw it twice in the movie theaters, once at the midnight launch, and again the next day. I would happily hand over another $10.50 to see a sequel, but the question is will it happen? It's no secret that the number of viewers of the show have been declining for quite some time. Season 18 was very hard for me to watch, but right now in Season 19, I've enjoyed many of the episodes. Off the top of my head I can say E Pluribus Wiggum and The Debarted were my favorite episodes this season. Some of my non-Simpsons obsessed friends agree that E Pluribus Wiggum was really an intelligent, funny episode, and having Jon Stewart as a guest star surely helped become one of my new favorites. I can't find any data about the show's current ratings, but I can say that the quality is definitely better than Season 18. Hopefully this new trend of high-quality funny episodes will make Al Jean reconsider a Simpsons Movie sequel.
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