These aren't The Simpsons I know

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2008)

The transliteration of a successful TV series into a film isn't a new things, but it seems that no one learned from past mistakes. Orrible movies are the rule, and this movie is the proof.
The Simpsons Movie isn't a complete disaster, but the result is miles further from the wonderful TV series. Some scenes are hilarious, but are car lamps in a foggy morning.
I can find three major points that affected my vote:

The first part of the film is too longer than the second, they aren't well balanced. The first part seems a stretched TV episode, the second a confused collage of scenes. It seems the result of a tidy writer (or with tight deadlines) who decided to cut some scenes to finish as early as possible.

The spectator familiar to The Simpsons has a deja vu feeling through the whole movie: many scenes seems copies of TV episodes.

The greatness of The Simpsons is the ability to create a caricature of a "common" American town and generally of the USA in short episodes, little pills of wisdom. With 90 minutes the result would have been extraordinary, but the result is poor. I expected something linked to nowadays great themes (War on Terror, US elections and so on), but the lack of courage (or money matters) created a family movie without the original wit.

My vote is composed of two parts:
Vote as comic film for families and teens: 6 Vote as "The Simpsons Movie": 4
The mean is 5