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82
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79
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78
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73
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71
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71
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70
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65
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64
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64
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63
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61
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60
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57
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55
House Bunny, The
54
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
54
Get Smart
53
Sex and the City: The Movie
53
Longshots, The
53
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51
Mamma Mia!
51
Step Brothers
49
Hancock
47
Swing Vote
47
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43
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42
Death Race
36
Space Chimps
36
Fly Me to the Moon
35
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35
Mirrors
34
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33
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31
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27
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24
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20
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40
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66
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62
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57
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47
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80
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55
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61
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64
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61
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49
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54
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xx
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86
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66
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52
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80
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64
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86
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83
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68
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62
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73
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54
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25
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78
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50
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70
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89
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87
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74
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46
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80
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66
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72
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61
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71
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78
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51
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57
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57
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83
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56
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71
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72
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80
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83
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86
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79
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61
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54
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66
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75
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89
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87
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86
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86
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86
Flight of the Red Balloon, The
85
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83
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83
Frozen River
83
Tell No One
80
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80
Trouble the Water
80
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80
Order of Myths, The
79
Visitor, The
78
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78
Last Mistress, The
76
I Served the King of England
75
Young@Heart
75
Boy A
74
Mongol
73
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73
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72
Priceless
72
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72
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71
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71
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70
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68
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67
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66
Elegy
66
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
66
American Teen
66
When Did You Last See Your Father?
64
Brideshead Revisited
64
XXY
64
Fall, The
63
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
63
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62
Kabluey
62
Baghead
62
Girls Rock!
61
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61
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61
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61
Red
61
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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54
Hamlet 2
54
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54
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53
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52
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51
Savage Grace
50
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49
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47
Before the Rains
46
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46
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44
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40
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25
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xx
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Simpsons Movie, The
20th Century Fox
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
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Comedy
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| 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
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 18, 2007
Theatrical: July 27, 2007
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| 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.

91
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.

90
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."

90
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.

90
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.

88
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
If this is in fact merely a longer Simpsons episode, it's a damn good Simpsons episode.

88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The good news is that this is not merely a few episodes cobbled together: It's a real movie.

88
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.

83
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.

83
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.

80
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.

80
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.

80
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.

80
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.

80
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.

80
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.

80
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).

75
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).

75
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.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The Simpsons Movie is finally here. And guess what? It's funny. But not that funny.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is funny, sassy and intelligent in that moronic Simpsons' way.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Best of all, though the Simpson clan is 18 years older, they're not one bit wiser.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It's hard not to like it. And in both senses of the phrase, America keeps asking for it.

70
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.

67
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
Homer's rendition of "spider pig" is comedy gold.

63
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.

63
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.

40
Empire
Ian Nathan
The message is just as clear with Simpsonian antics -- if it ain't broke, don't make a movie…


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