Just what I expected

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2009)

It came as no surprise to me that I was bored through almost all of this movie. The pacing was slow and thick as molasses in February, the jokes were old, and in one case a gag was actually stolen from the Leslie Nielsen classic, Wrongfully Accused! As is often the case with TV to film adaptations, the plot chosen was too epic to be taken seriously, but too serious to be funny. The movie's plot could honestly just have been about the loser patriarch who gets a pet pig, which ends up dirtying the house, etc. That gag, however, the only funny part of the movie, was abandoned by the picture about half way through! My advice to people who like "The Simpsons" is to stick to the TV. To the rest of us, just watch Family Guy!