Wonderful Beyond My Wildest Imagination!!!

Rating: 9/10 (6 August 2007)

What can I say? The Simpons Movie delivered...
At a laugh out loud gag rate of about four per minute, it is easily the funniest movie since Airplane. Homer was as aggressively stupid and a man can be without being institutionalized (actually, he was once, in the series). At one time or another, every member of his family has incited the entire town to mob violence and this movie gives us that and more.
Albert Brooks (Dr. Scorpio and Fat Camp facilitator) is back as an EPA official. The character is an obvious slap at the Bush administration (a wealthy man who turns to public service and screws that up). He is intense, dishonest and brutal.
Homer is the most compelling character in this movie. Spider-pig is a hoot (wait through the credits for the choral version). There is a brief (very) moment of dark soberness, much like in A Goofy Movie. It passes quickly to a dynamite hallucination sequence.
Overall, as a lifelong fan, I give it a nine because there are few tens; but, it is well worth the five hundred or so dollars that it takes to bring the family to the movies these days...