Simpsons creators get the big screen adaptation right

Rating: 7/10 (7 February 2008)

Matt Groening and co. waited and waited for the right time for a Simpsons movie and they deliver with this film. It's not some great Simpsons epic that people seem to expect when a TV show becomes a feature film and it shouldn't be because most of those films tank.
The premise of "The Simpsons Movie" is a long episode plot (they even throw in a "to be continued" to make fun of the TV medium.) that entails Homer screwing up against (this time majorly) and forcing Springfield to be contained in a glass dome by the EPA. Longtime writers James L. Brooks and Matt Groening do the right thing by focusing the plot on Homer, the franchise's most successful character. The film's Homer gags are fresh and true to Simspsons style. Many TV writers trying to make the movie based on their show the equivalent of its most amazing episode would try and over-incorporate the large cast of lovable characters, but "The Simpsons Movie" keeps them as mostly cameos, a decent amount of which are funny and it allows the film to stay focused.
If you watch "The Simpsons Movie" looking for that big "be-all" for the series, you'll like experience some measure of disappointment, but those people who are fans of or at least admire the series and don't want their minds to be blown away with Simpsons humor and awesomeness, you will get your laughs (some of which you don't even normally get because of strict TV ratings) and you'll have fun.