"The Simpsons" is this little animated show that started 20 years ago...and will never ever be canceled even though the past decade of episodes have been varying degrees of awful...but whatever, as long as Matt Groening and FOX get tons of money. Then along came "The Simpsons Movie" in 2007. The movie is way better than the show has been in recent years. Lots of great scenes including "Spiderpig," Bart exposing himself while skateboarding, Marge using profanity, the Simpsons moving to Alaska because Homer nearly destroys Springfield (we will never find out which state they live in apparently), Arnold Schwarzenegger is now president, and Tom Hanks has a great little cameo. However, the hundreds of residents of Springfield were used far to little. There are so many characters on the TV show, but in the movie characters like Krusty the Clown, Moe, Kent Brockman, Ned Flanders etc got very little screen time. Also, the movie is awfully short and I feel like there was an opportunity for some more jokes. And Kelsey Grammer definitely should have been somewhere in the movie as Sideshow Bob. But, overall a funny movie (just don't compare it to the classic "Simpsons" episodes of the 1990s, because in that regard the movie comes up short)...
-Joseph Sbrilli
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