I laughed twice, that's it

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2007)

I'm about as avid a simpsons fan as one could be, I own every season on DVD and have been watching the show since I was 15. So when I went into the movie version I was expecting something spectacular, something with a level of hilarity on par with the south park movie (in that movie there were 5 minutes out of 2 hours where I *didn't* laugh). I mean, after all, this is a two hour movie that the writers had years to come up with as opposed to the usual 24 minute episode that gets written in a few weeks.
About halfway through this thing I realized that I had only laughed once, smirked maybe 5 or 6 times and was losing hope that the movie would ever get any better. The usual simpson's episode delivers a joke about once every 10-15 seconds outside of the plot-development material, this movie was delivering jokes about once a minute and none were new or interesting in any way. It was as if they took the worst simpsons episode in the life of the series, and just dragged it out to 2 hours with some better 3D drawing added in.
This movie will be the first piece of simpsons media that I won't buy. I just can't believe how badly the writers did on this, you'd think they would have worked a little harder for the movie version.