I saw The Simpsons Movie last wednesday. It was great but what I noticed at the end credits is that Hans Zimmer did the music and not Alf Clausen. What's with that? Was Alf Clausen unavailable for some reason? He did almost every episode of the series so why not the movie? Was he scoring episodes and did not had time for the movie? If he was unavailable why not Danny Elfman who did the theme? Or maybe he was unavailable himself. If both men where unavailable, than I can see why they used Zimmer. Sure would like to know what the story is behind this.

Not that Zimmer was bad. He has his share of animation and knows his way around it and I didn't recognise different styles, though.

Zimmer got the job simply because he is good friend with James L. Brooks who is the executive producer of the movie. Zimmer also worked together on several of Brooks' own movies and he is the most popular composer out there right now, much more popular than someone like Alf Clausen who never really scored big productions.

Too bad though, because Zimmers score is clearly lacking the self irony and parody that was ever present in clausens episode scores.