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The Simpsons Movie (2007)

The Simpsons Movie
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Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, Julie Kavner

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome... (read more)

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PG-13, 1 hr. 27 min.
Directed by: David Silverman
Release Date: Jul 27, 2007
DVD Release Date: Dec 18, 2007

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1 day ago
I still think its funny that people watched this and said "That was noting special, just one long episode, really". But how the hell ELSE can they do it? I loved it!
1 day ago
Expected a lot more of this movie. Was more of a long episode with more opportunity for additional plot lines than anything else.
2 days ago
this could have been sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better. it was an extended episode and they could have created something far far better than this. missed a golden op... (read more)
3 days ago
Homer Simpson has never been more stupid or more evil! Overall it's an amusing movie with the typical Simpsons' stuff. But the movie feels rather short and more like an extended episode rather than a full blown movie.
5 days ago
I've been wanting to see this for a long time and I have to say I was hugely disappointed. It seemed like there weren't any jokes in the entire picture except what I had already seen in the trailers - there's the odd chuckle here and there, but why ... (read more)

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697 days ago
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Doesn't make the existential leap to the big screen, and it doesn't have the density of gags or the lunatic free-association of the best episodes.
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702 days ago
Armond White, The New York Press
The best prospect of The Simpsons Movie is that it will return communal intelligence to moviegoing.
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707 days ago
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
This one feels incomplete, an underachiever still searching for a real reason to exist beyond enriching a fat franchise.
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707 days ago
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
It's subversively hilarious as well as strangely touching, and it features a scene in which Homer is directed across the landscape by the twin shadows of a woman's mountainous chest.
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707 days ago
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
The picture works because, despite the fact that it took nearly six years for the filmmakers to bring it to the screen, it doesn't strive for greatness. It's fleet, concise and clever in a nut-ball way.
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