More of the same and as bad as the TV show

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2008)

The Simpsons Movie..after waiting for the particularly-restrictive non-forwardable FBI warnings, and the cutesy animations, I finally got to watch the movie.
Unfortunately, the movie is just as bad as the TV series, post 1998/1999, when the Simpsons resorted to physical slapstick humor and lost its edge.
Gone are the cunning, razor-sharp scripts that Simpsons had in the olden days of the 1990s. What remains is humor that has been dulled down to a blunt instrument, and a lot more lame physical comedy.
Is the Simpsons movie any different than the TV show? I could only watch about 20 minutes of it before deciding it sucked as bad as the latest TV show and returned the DVD.
I love the earlier Simpsons, up until about 1998 or so. After that, they lost their edge. The movie is an extended, sad commentary on the decline of one of the best cartoons of all time.