Fun...but I didn't have to watch it on the big screen!!!

Rating: 7/10 (30 July 2007)

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE is a fun movie but nothing, I feel anyway, that has to be seen on the big screen. I could just of easily waited for it to come out on DVD and enjoyed it just the same.
Leave it to that lovable oaf, Homer, to mess things up in Springfield (It's location you may be asking? Well, you ain't gonna find out in this movie and they make a joke that has to do with this). Homer disposes of a silo, full of pig crap, into a lake which causes life in it to mutate. In comes the EPA to put a giant dome over Springfield to make sure nothing escapes from Springfield to cause a widespread epidemic. Of course, when the townsfolk discover that Homer was the cause of this, they aren't to happy. They head toward the Simpson residence, torches a blazing. The Simpsons escape the town, via a sinkhole, and make their way to Alaska, where they hide out for awhile. When Marge sees on TV that they (the EPA) now plan on blowing Springfield to smithereens, she wants to go back and stop it from happening, but Homer will have nothing of it. Why should he go back and help a town where the people wanted to off him and his family? So, needless to say, Marge takes the kids and heads back herself. Of course, Homer realizes, with the help of and old woman, that he must go back and help his family and his town.
I suppose they do put things in this film that they couldn't of got away with on network television, Homer flipping people off, A few swears here and there and, probably the most "thing" of all, Bart Simpson's genitalia. Yep. I wrote it. In a scene that recalls stuff they did in the Austin Power's movies, the filmmakers strategically place stuff in front of a nude Bart as he skateboards through Springfield, on a dare from Homer mind you. Only thing is, Bart skateboards behind a shrub, leaving his top half covered and his bottom half exposed. Funny? Yes. Something I had to see on the big screen? No.