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Simpsons Movie, The
20th Century Fox


7.3

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for irreverent humor throughout

Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, and Kelsey Grammer

It takes a wide screen to fully capture Homer Simpson's stupidity, and The Simpsons Movie does it. In the eagerly-awaited animated feature film based on the hit TV series, Homer must save the world from a catastrophe he himself created. (20th Century Fox)

GENRE(S):	Animation \| Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Matt Groening (& also creator: television series "The Simpsons"), Sam Simon (creator: television series "The Simpsons") James L. Brooks (& also creator: television series "The Simpsons") Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti
DIRECTED BY:	David Silverman
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 18, 2007 Theatrical: July 27, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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100

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The show has been the gold standard for satirical TV ever since it debuted in 1989. This long-awaited movie adaptation has plenty of laughs, plus an assortment of milestones for fans.

100

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Like "Hairspray," it's not just a spinoff but a wised-up family comedy that's spirited and inventive. It retains the farcical belligerence of the TV comedy but also heightens the series' oddball warmth and expands on its Hellzapoppin' slapstick.

100

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

The genius is in the writing and in keeping all gambits created by the individual writers in sync, so the piece has a tonal consistency and a narrative flow. A lost art in Hollywood? It's really one of the best movies of the year.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

The movie is best when it just riffs on our compacted memories of the past 18 years of episodes. Fortunately, that's most of the time.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

A 90-minute, years-in-the-making comic wind-up machine that begins by mocking its own audience for paying good money to see what it can watch at home for free and proceeds from there through the most wickedly funny arsenal of assaults on big government, organized religion and corporate America this side of "Borat."

The New York Times A.O. Scott

The Simpsons Movie, in the end, is as good as an average episode of "The Simpsons." In other words, I’d be willing to watch it only -- excuse me while I crunch some numbers here -- 20 or 30 more times.

Time Richard Corliss

So, for those of you who were wondering if a great TV show could top itself at feature-film length, the good news is that The Simpsons did it! But "South Park" did it first.

Premiere Glenn Kenny

If this is in fact merely a longer Simpsons episode, it's a damn good Simpsons episode.

USA Today Claudia Puig

The good news is that this is not merely a few episodes cobbled together: It's a real movie.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

The result is two-tiered humor, broad enough to appeal to anybody but overlaid with jokes that will be funnier if you know the show.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The best thing about this long-awaited feature-length project, a classic Simpsonian interplay of family psychology, social commentary, and brainy visual and verbal jokes tossed off at rat-a-tat speed, is how relaxed it manages to be.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Though it never regains the inspiration or comic density of its brilliant first 20 minutes, The Simpsons Movie keeps the laughs coming from start to finish, a feat as rare and wonderful in film as it has been through 18 years of television.

Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman

After 18 seasons and some 400 episodes of their Fox TV series, the family created by Matt Groening, the family that put the dys in dysfunctional, makes a seamless transition from the shag carpet to the red carpet in the long-awaited Simpsons Movie.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

In some ways, it reminded me of the final "Seinfeld" episode. As much as I laughed throughout, I kept wondering what was with all the emotional lessons.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

It's caustic, irreverent, constantly amusing and a tiny bit rude. Not a lot, though. This isn't the "Beavis and Butt-Head" or "South Park" movie. It's almost -- dare I say it -- charming.

Variety Brian Lowry

Put simply, if somebody had to make a "Simpsons" movie, this is pretty much what it should be -- clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot, capable (just barely) of sustaining a narrative roughly four times the length of a standard episode.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

The 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.

Slate Dana Stevens

Nearly all of the show's minor supporting characters--Moe Szyslak, Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, Hans Moleman--get to make at least an appearance, though it would have been nice to see larger speaking roles for favorites like Apu and Mr. Smithers.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

It’s funny, it’s smart, and it pokes fun at exactly the things it should (organized religion, big business, and audience itself).

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The most ingenious thing about the movie is how it plays to diehards and neophytes alike. Every Simpsons character gets at least a fleeting appearance (and occasionally, director David Silverstein uses the widescreen format to cram in as many of them into one shot as he can).

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A very funny, solidly entertaining movie that, despite its unshakable obsesion with undergarments, is as sweet as a Kwik-E-Mart Squishee.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

The Simpsons Movie is finally here. And guess what? It's funny. But not that funny.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It's amusing enough and breezy enough not to disappoint. But it never dazzles or challenges or truly delights. And that leaves me fairly certain that whatever Bart Simpson would say about it probably couldn't be printed in a family newspaper.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

On the positive side, it's still four back-to-back Simpsons episodes, which is still better than most of what either television or the movies have to offer.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Though it does have a handful of dirty jokes meant to earn the audience-pleasing PG-13 rating and features Marge swearing, it falls short of classic status.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie is funny, sassy and intelligent in that moronic Simpsons' way.

San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand

No one will be bored with the feature film... but everyone who knows the show well will have a nagging feeling that something is missing.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

As much as I enjoyed the movie -- and I laughed all the way through it -- the truth is that the big screen adds nothing special to the "Simpsons" experience.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The Simpsons is interested in being a family film, although this is one of those rare animated occasions when adults are the primary audience. I, for one, couldn't be happier.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Best of all, though the Simpson clan is 18 years older, they're not one bit wiser.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

It's hard not to like it. And in both senses of the phrase, America keeps asking for it.

New York Magazine David Edelstein

It’s intermittently very funny. But it 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.

Austin Chronicle Toddy Burton

Homer's rendition of "spider pig" is comedy gold.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Homer even jokes that it takes a sucker to pay for a show you can get for free on TV. D'oh! That hurts.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

It would be a stretch to call The Simpsons Movie more than a crisper, livelier-looking episode of the series. The change in mediums changes nothing.

Empire Ian Nathan

The message is just as clear with Simpsonian antics -- if it ain't broke, don't make a movie…

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 366 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

sufi H gave it a9:
I loved this movie!I am a huge fan of the simpsons and i didnt think there was something to make me like it even more but I was WRONG! It still isnt perfect and i know that they could have made it much better but this is also good.

Mark K gave it a5:
The Simpsons are dead. It went stale after season ten and they haven't made a decent episode since then. If this film was the best they could do then why not just make it into a two part episode? It feels a little draged out with a lot of filler lines and jokes (only a few which are funny). Family Guy and South Park are the way to go.

Andrew N gave it a7:
Brilliant for the first 30 minutes but slid into relative mediocrity after that.

Harlen M gave it an8:
Like watching a ninety minute-long episode of the Simpsons, but a bit funnier.

Gary H. gave it an8:
Fresh and entertainingly hilarious but limited with its run time.

Julian C. gave it a4:
It's only 83 minutes, but still feels too long. I think it would have made a brilliant two-part episode on TV. There are several very funny parts, but nothing very sustained. It felt like there was a lot of padding added to make it up to feature length. It was reasonably entertaining on the whole. Probably worth renting. Not terrible, but not especially good either.

Alex G. gave it a10:
I am very annoyed with people who say that Th Simpsons are staling, ok a couple of the recent episodes haven't been up to the usual standards but they are still going strong this superb film is evident proof that the Simpson are better than ever before, pure brilliance right down to the last detail.

Simpsons Movie, The 20th Century Fox

Simpsons Movie, The
20th Century Fox