Both hilarious and clever. This is certainly the best TV show-to-movie in recent memory, eclipsing South Park. The film's humor feels more similiar to the earlier years of the show. Loved it. A-

Ok, guys, tell me about the Marge monologue? What's it all about?


I'll be seeing this sometime next week! Can't wait!!!

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In Alaska, Marge decides to save Springfield when she finds out it is going to be destroyed, Homer wants to stay so he goes to Eski-Moes plays some Grand Theft Walrus and then comes back. He finds a video and plays it it is Marge (in an amazing job done by Julie Kavner, she hasn't ever sounded this good as Marge) and tells him that she is leaving and to prove she is serious she taped over their wedding video. When the monologue is over their wedding video plays with CLose to You being the song, it really is heart breaking

In with a bang! Out with a wimper...

As I began watching this film, something happened: I was taken back to a time when I actually enjoyed the show, and was thinking, "this ain't half bad." And it wasn't. It was actually pretty good. Well, for the first half hour...

Unfortunately, things began to go downhill quickly and progressively kept getting worse. By the time the film was over, I couldn't wait to beat the crowd to the parking lot and get the hell out of dodge. What we have here is a movie with spectacular fandom surrounding it: People love it now, but, as time goes on, I feel the film's power will greatly diminish. To quote another user: "This film is a one-trick pony."

I've seen it happen before, and I believe it will happen here. There just isn't enough substance behind it; consequently, resorting to cliched marriage breakup storylines and hackneyed hallmark moments we have all seen before. I would have rather seen more Itchy and Scratchy (or something similarly interesting) over the melodramatic moments which leads me to another point -- important characters are vastly underused. Not only are members of the family underused, but fun characters throughout the show's run are also shamefully underused.

The plot wears thin (I personally didn't enjoy the main "dome" plot) among a few moments of liveliness and creativity. The movie wants to live, but it just hasn't been fed the proper reels past reel one.

The film starts off very good, and ends just as poorly as "Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party '03."

Overall: Fun for a night out, but not very memorable.

B- (There's some fun to be had here, and I haven't been a fan in many years, so I'm accounting for this.)

Saw it again tonight, another awesome viewing. It holds up well, and there are some extra jokes in there too. I barely noticed the Fox ticker at the bottom in the beginning, this time I got to read it and its hysterical.

Both times what I found hysterical was the Spiderpig song- Lots of people started to sing it, then when the extra verse went off I was laughing really loud when everyone trailed off.

Lenny may have the best line of the film. "Oh no black, thats like the worst color of all time, no offense carl" "No worries, I get that all the time"

I think it was "that's the worst color of them all."

Being not a fan of the TV series, I stiLL enjoyed it a Lot. Its as hiLarious as The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. Best part IMO was Homer in the sandbox, I Laughed to death.

B+

Ewwww.

Also, if you laughed to death, how are you posting?

I think I will see this tomorrow, if I can drag someone to go see it with me.

I laughed so much.

I mean, it's not a Simpsons masterpiece. In terms of plot, they didn't really try for anything that was going to be the end-all of Simpsons storylines. But I didn't mind. I was laughing - constantly.

I'm pretty tough on comedies in general, I think some might have come to realize. For me, as of right now, cinematic comedy doesn't even approach the type of comedy that's being produced on TV (I look at brilliant stuff like The Office and Extras and compare it to the dreck that, oh I dunno, just this past week took the #1 slot at the box office). Luckily, the transition from TV to screen here is entirely successful; I felt like I was watching a great episode of The Simpsons, and for me, even a good episode of The Simpsons is still better than 90% of the comedies I see in theaters every year.

Like I said, it's not a Simpsons masterpiece, or even a masterpiece on its own right (a la Ratatouille), so I don't know what sort of grade I can give it, but yeah, like I said, laughed big and laughed a lot. Loved it.

Pretty good -- about the same funny/filler ratio as the show nowadays. Too long though, they coulda tightened it up by about 15 minutes and gotten rid of some of the mushy stuff. I still watch every new episode on Sunday nights, and I would say it's worth seeing for the fans...

3 out of 5.

15 minutes off and it would have been an hour long. I thought it needed 15 minutes more to feel more like a movie actually.

An hour woulda been just about right, imho -- that's three episodes long, which still woulda been a challenge for the writers to sustain -- I'm a believer in movie length suiting the material (I don't have a problem with paying full price for a 60 minute film, though I know some people would)...

I Loved the movie, and felt the "Mushy" stuff is what brought it to another level.

Yes a "oh God they have run out of idea's and are re-cycling the same repetitive nonsense" level.

That stuff doesn't work when Homer has become a stupid pastiche of himself.

Well knocking down for that only works when comparing it to the golden years of the show, and honestly that is compleatly unfair. I can judge it by current episode standards and declare it the best movie ever, but it seems no one is doing that but some seem to think the only way the movie could be good, is if it looked good against those magical seasons. Really what looks good compared to them, maybe one/two shows on TV now a handful of animated movies released in the past two decades. Judge a movie based on the movie, and honestly is this movie worse than DOA

Damnit!!

Note to self, kill Jay

Another Note to self erase DOA from viewing catalogue.

And yes DOA was more enjoyable

I honestly judged the film like a i judge every other film, I.E. was I entertained/Moved/Educated/Made to Think. This film was a complete cruise and collect job, if it was an F1 driver it would be Ralf Schumacher, so much talent but couldn't be arsed using it.

Having seen this, I can say that it lives up to the Simpsons name and was a great inclusion to one of the best TV series of all time. However, I can definetely see why some people aren't going to like it at all: It certainly wasn't the same humor or story of the "golden age", and was definetely more akin to present times. The main difference between the current shows and this film (for me at least) was that it kept me constantly laughing and feeling excited, and for that reason alone, I can't possibly feel bad about it not being the masterpiece that past epis were.

B+

I agree. Back in the best of the shows, the sentimentality that often closed each episode was honest, character-driven, and meaningful.

(But -- Hey! -- I still liked it, I laughed, I gave it 3 out of 5 for goodness sakes!)

I don't see where the raves are coming from. It's a good movie, and I'm as glad it didn't suck as everyone else, but there are hardly any belly-laughs, the supporting characters might as well not be in the movie and it still has too many of the crappy Family Guy-type jokes that have been plaguing the last several seasons. Still, there are so many jokes period that there was hardly a time I wasn't giggling, and I'm glad it was made.

If there's a sequel, they should call up Conan and kick out Maxtone-Graham and Scully.

A sequel will probably be much better. And my dream sequel would be directed by Brad Bird.

I'd love a sequel to bring back some characters from the school and of course Mr. Burns and the Power plant.

I'd love something as eventful as Who Shot Mr. Burns on the big screen. Another type of huge mystery would be awesome.

Haha...I loved that.

The movie was great, something I didn't expect even two weeks ago. It wasn't a masterpiece by any means, but it was more than I could have hoped for.

A-

This one was hilarious, but it didn't dwell on the human drama as well.

No way kick out Jean and Scully, Maxtone-Graham and Selman are the only good writers left.