Enjoyable outing on the big screen for a small screen family

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2007)

Although I enjoy the Simpsons when I watch it I don't go out of my way to see it, but I don't regret seeing this.
Everyone knows who the Simpsons are, and in this the lake has become over polluted. The town residents manage to get their habit of dumping rubbish in the lake under control. Until that is, Homer SImpson comes along. Homer saves a pig from being slaughtered and takes it home, much to Bart's disgust. Homer dared Bart to skateboard naked to the Kwik-E-Mart and when Bart was caught Homer didn't explain so Bart starts to turn towards Flanders. Not knowing what to do with his new pet's droppings, Homer keeps it in a silo which he eventually has to dump in, you guessed it, the lake. Springfield is sealed in a dome to stop the pollution spreading and the residents soon find out who is responsible. Thanks to a sink hole in Maggie's sand pit the Simpsons escape and run to Canada. But they soon discover that the plan is for Springfield to be wiped off the map so it's up to the town's most hated family to save their home.
Because the Simpsons characters are so well know there's no introduction to them, so the movie plays like a long episode of the series, but I wasn't really expecting anything different. I was pleasantly surprised that there wasn't an appearance of every character that could be fitted in, which would have made the movie too cluttered unless it had been made longer. If you know the series you'll know what kind of humour to expect. It was very funny in parts, although I wasn't rolling in the aisles myself. To be honest I was neither impressed nor disappointed in this.
All in all, a fun movie, basically a long episode on the big screen. I'd take anyone who likes the series to see this as there wasn't anything more graphic than you'd find in in series every week, except maybe one very small joke lasting a few seconds during Bart's skateboard escapade.