You may have already seen this...

Rating: 2/10 (15 August 2007)

...if you've been a Simpsons fan for as long as I have and have seen most of the classic episodes.
Now I haven't seen the whole film but, working in a cinema, I have seen the beginning and the end, and a few bits in between. And all I saw in that time were watered down parts (no blood in Itchy and Scratchy?!) so that it could be a PG, and jokes that have been recycled from episodes.
For example:
*When Homer goes to church in the beginning he states that he wants to worship God in his own way, like praying like hell on his death bed. He's said this before in the episode "Homer the Heretic", except he used the word "recant" as opposed to "praying like hell" - obviously changed in the movie so kids could understand it.
*When Grandpa has the vision in the church, he rolls around on the floor in a circle... something Homer did in the "Last Exit To Springfield" episode where he is appointed head of the union, and negotiates with Mr Burns in an attempt to get the Dental Plan back.
*Near the end, when Homer and Bart try to make the jump and fail initially... that's been seen before.
*As has the part where Apu changes the sell-by date because the product had gone out of date.
I'm not going to watch the rest of it because I'm sure that, based on the few minutes of this I have seen, there will be more recycled jokes which made me laugh at the time, but not now.
The beauty of The Simpsons, in my opinion, is that the episodes are clever and are there to appeal to an older audience (or certainly were, before they started getting boring and unfunny).
However, the film is just for kids, or for adults to take their kids to the cinema.
It may make new fans this, but I don't think it will please the old ones. And that's why I don't like it.