Classic Simpsons! Ignore All The Hate.

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2014)

It's no secret that the 18th season was extremely poor, with just the odd good episode and many many pathetic ones. It shows that this had been in production for a long time before it was finished since this is worthy of the classic years of the show.
This just plays out like one of the regular episodes of the show only stretched out to feature film length. The same level of humour you'd expect from a standard episode is on display and the entire writing team is involved so as to hone this to its full potential.
It's a shame we don't get to see much of the regular cast outside of the main family but most characters get something to do even if they are mostly wasted. Two new characters are brought in to replace them, Russ and Colin, but neither is particularly interesting. Spiderpig however is incredible.
The obligatory celebrity cameos are here too. Tom Hanks is a bit unnecessary but he gets some great lines in his fleeting appearance and at the start we get the opening theme performed by Greenday. They had a number one with their version of it. Another piece of the soundtrack to reach number one was Homer's Spiderpig song which was the shortest song to reach number one in the charts for a few months. Speaking of the soundtrack the regular musician for the show Alf Clausen is left out entirely and the theme composer Danny Elfman is not involved either. Instead they got in Hans Zimmer and the score he wrote for this is amazing.
The Simpsons made something of a quantum leap from shorts to its own series but it doesn't do the same from TV to movie. But why should it? If it ain't broke don't fix it. This is better than a lot of Zombie Simpsons and on par with a standard Classic Simpsons. And that's all it needed to be. 8/10