A Good Time, but Not a Great Time

Rating: 6/10 (12 August 2007)

You've read all the comments--for example, in a 90 minute film, you'd expect more of the minor characters to make an appearance-- we get Flanders, Moe, Mr. Burns, Chief Wiggins, etc., but where were so many others? For a major production in old fashioned 2-D animation, I would have liked to have seen more fantasmagorical sequences like 'Homer's Epiphany.' At least we got that! There were other 'spectacular' wide screen vistas such as the dropping of the dome. And finally, in such an extended episode, seeing so much of Homer's poor parenting got a little tiring. On the good side-- it was THE SIMPSONS! Everything we love about the TV show was there in terms of humor, attitude, sarcasm and subtlety. Good. So it gets a strong B. (That's a B+).