Doesn’t make the existential leap to the big screen, and it doesn’t have the density of gags or the lunatic free-association of the best episodes.
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08/06/07
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The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:30
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: The Simpsons Movie contains the hearty laughs, biting satire, and honest portrayal of an American family that makes the show so popular. And it boasts slicker animation and polished writing that hearkens back to the show's glory days.
Theatrical Release:Jul 27, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $183,049,643
Synopsis: THE SIMPSONS MOVIE may not qualify for the honor of "Best. Movie. Ever," but even the harshest critics like Comic Book Guy will find little to dislike in this hilarious comedy. Springing from Fox's... [More]
Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Director: David Silverman
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Reviews for The Simpsons Movie
Top CriticNobody should have a cow. Bigger and longer don't always mean better, but The Simpsons Movie is still a cut above.
08/03/07
Top CriticDefinitely worth your money.
07/31/07
Top CriticSome 10 years after expected, The Simpsons Movie couldn't give a doodle in a doughnut hole about expectations anyway. It may deliver what we've already got, but it leaves no doubt why we got it in the first place.
07/27/07
Top CriticThis one feels incomplete, an underachiever still searching for a real reason to exist beyond enriching a fat franchise.
07/27/07
Top CriticA very funny, solidly entertaining movie that, despite its unshakable obsesion with undergarments, is as sweet as a Kwik-E-Mart Squishee.
07/27/07
Top CriticIt's subversively hilarious as well as strangely touching, and it features a scene in which Homer is directed across the landscape by the twin shadows of a woman's mountainous chest.
07/27/07
Top CriticThis is The Simpsons which, with its first big-screen effort, is underachieving and proud of it, man.
07/27/07
Top CriticThe Simpsons concept in feature length is just as reassuringly startling in its nonstop irreverence as the best of the weekly TV droppings.
07/27/07
Top CriticThe picture works because, despite the fact that it took nearly six years for the filmmakers to bring it to the screen, it doesn't strive for greatness. It's fleet, concise and clever in a nut-ball way.
07/27/07
Top CriticWhile nothing in this motion picture quite matches the television series at its early best, this is more of a throwback than a throw-away. It's wittier and more energetic than anything that has appeared on FOX in quite a few years.
07/27/07
Top CriticIt's a strange path for the series' star writers to have chosen -- this idea that more existential meant better.
07/26/07
Top CriticHurray for Homer. Long may he rave.
07/26/07
Top CriticThis long-awaited movie adaptation has plenty of laughs, plus an assortment of milestones for fans.
07/26/07
Top CriticThe Simpsons Movie is finally here. And guess what? It's funny. But not that funny.
07/26/07
Top CriticThe film fires on all cylinders, one-liners coming thick and fast.
07/26/07
Top CriticThe Simpsons Movie is full of the anarchic, generous, good-natured humor that is the show's enduring signature.
07/26/07
Top CriticEven casual Simpsons fans will find plenty to chortle over, right through the closing credits. There are plenty of Hollywood comedies that can't say the same.
07/26/07
Top CriticThat the show hasn't sailed off into the seas of complacency after all these years is a miracle. But the movie feels a little complacent and stuck.
07/26/07
Top CriticThere's something about the Simpsons that's radical and simple at the same time, subversive and good-hearted, offensive without really meaning to be. It's a nice balancing act.
07/26/07
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