Worth the Wait

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2007)

There isn't much you can say about The Simpsons Movie that you can't say about the television show. Its sense of humor has a lot in common with other brutally irreverent cartoons made for older people. It has that same brilliant timing and expression of certain goofy characters' stupidity, but it never gets into as much trouble as South Park because it never gets that direct or crosses the line to the point of self-satirization, and it never gets old the way Family Guy, no matter how addictive it is, can so easily get, because it's patient and indulges in a little thing called plot. The Simpsons Movie has all of these things, and wisely, knowing that its scope must be expanded as a feature-length production, dreams up many wonderful plot ideas and infventively outlandish set pieces that if done in a live action film would be the most mind-blowing spectacles in any film for several years.