More Simpsons!

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2007)

Simpsons the Movie could not have been named any better than this, because it is exactly like the Simpsons we all know and love from the legendary cartoon show on TV, only longer. While this is a great thing and will surely please fans of the series -as one should not tinker with a successful formula- longer is not always better. I am not saying that the movie is bad, not at all, as I enjoyed watching it very much. However, as it is a movie in the theater I somehow expected it to be at least slightly better than the TV-show, which it is not. There are some great jokes in this movie, brought to you with the typical wittiness and silliness we know from the TV-series, but the actual story-line could not really hold my attention throughout the movie's entire 90 minutes. The Simpsons has never been big on storyline, which is perfectly fine for a TV-episode, but here the attempt to create a storyline was not that successful. Nevertheless this is the Simpsons and if you expected it to have an Oscar-winning storyline you did not pay enough attention watching the show on television.