Everyone has been waiting eighteen years for this.

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2007)

But it should have been done a long time ago when The Simpsons was in its prime. I came to the cinema today expecting to see an extended version of the current runnings of the TV series and I left with the same impression.
Obviously The Simpsons is a sit-com that can entertain all ages of the audience and so it attracted a broad range of fans to the preview, spanning from eight to fifty-year old's. And I understood from that screening that the audience over reactive to the gags in the film. Although they weren't as funny as they supposed to be, the audience still laughed because of the passion of The Simpsons; during some of the jokes that were displayed in the film, immediately the audience laughed out loud over it. They all knew it wasn't a classic gag that would go down in the history books, but they laughed because it was The Simpsons and it goes to show that the series has earned such a huge portion of respect from the fans. And it makes everyone realise that it's not just one episode that makes The Simpsons great, it's the amount of episodes that defines the franchise; there's an episode for every member of the audience in terms of genre and this film basically just summed up all the aspects from the past two decades into one 90 minute viewing.
In the end, I'll have to say; it wasn't the best (feature length) episode I've ever seen from the Groening brigade, but it had some funny moments that were only suitable for the cinema experience. I would say to you all to go and watch it and find your own opinion on it. It does better than the new television episodes but it's lost the spirit of the old classic's.