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Generally favorable reviews- based on 500 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 36
  2. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. 100
    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.
  2. 80
    It’s funny, it’s smart, and it pokes fun at exactly the things it should (organized religion, big business, and audience itself).
  3. 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.
  4. Reviewed by: Ian Nathan
    40
    The message is just as clear with Simpsonian antics -- if it ain't broke, don't make a movie…

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 39 out of 214
  1. spiderpig spiderpig
    does whatever a spiderpig does
    can he swing from a web
    no he can't he's a pig
    look out he is a spiderpig
  2. Probably America's most daring movie ever made....
  3. PaulL.
    5
    This movie is a tad better than the writing that's come out of the Simpson's in the last 5 or so seasons. In other words, it just slightly better than crap. Expand
  4. MartinS.
    4
    More like 2 Episodes blown up to 90min with not-so-funny sidekicks (spider pig - wtf?) and not-so-ironic father& son stories. Too bad... and as usual - trailers took away most of the really awesome scenes (Moes Bar...) Expand

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