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They've kept television viewers laughing for nearly 20 years, and now the most popular animated family on the small screen makes the leap into theaters as Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, ad Maggie embark on... read more read more... their first-ever feature-length adventure. Directed by David Silverman and written by a whole host of Simpsons veterans including Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, The Simpsons Movie also features special guest appearances by Albert Brooks among others. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: David Silverman

Release Date: July 27, 2007

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DVD Release Date: December 18, 2007

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  • January 18, 2008
    God bless the Simpsons even if this is not their shiniest moment.

    If we're talking spin-offs, I have to give the nod to the the Hit & Run video game.
  • March 7, 2012
    The Simpsons Movie is an extended unrated version of one of the older episodes, which to be honest were the best episodes of the show.
  • February 4, 2012
    D'oh! Start with the movie. If you like it, move on to the show.
  • December 15, 2011
    What I originally expected from The Simpsons Movie was that it would be a 90 minute advertisement for the show, there would be catchphrases or quotes and that they would have to save the town from something. I was right about the latter two story aspects. I remember seeing this i... read moren theatres and enjoying it, but I never revisited it until just recently. That says something to me: that it wasn't great enough that I wanted to see it again immediately. It's not that it's overly bad or anything, but it just feels very mediocre - much like the series for the last several years. There are some geniune laughs in there, and Matt Groening and Co. manage to weave some Simpsons' magic on us, but it just feels tired and ready to hang up. So yes, see it, but you probably won't want to see it more than once - unless you're a Spider Pig freak, then that's different.
  • December 11, 2011
    For years, lines have been drawn...and then colored in yellow.

    Saw it again! Great funny movie just like the cartoons. Could watch it a million times again, I love the Simpsons!

    Homer adopts a pig who's run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, nam... read moreing the pig "Spider Pig." At the same time, the lake is protected after the audience sink the barge Green Day are on with garbage after they mention the environment. Meanwhile, Spider Pig's waste has filled up a silo in just 2 days, apparently with Homer's help. Homer can't get to the dump quickly so dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. Russ Cargill, the villainous boss of the EPA, gives Arnold Schwarzenegger 5 options, forcing him to choose 4 (which is, unfortunately, to destroy Springfield) and putting a dome over Springfield to prevent evacuation. Homer, however, has escaped, along with his family. Can he stop the evil Cargill from annihilating his home town, and his family, who have been forced to return to Springfield?
  • October 30, 2011
    A silly, laugh out loud film with a strong structure of respect already built behind the TV show, it wasn't a surprise that this film got all the recognition it deserved.
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    October 2, 2011
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    We all love The Simpsons, but this is something like you've never seen and is a huge upgrade from the show! Better writing (if it wasn't good already) and better animation. Bravo.
  • September 24, 2011
    The Simpsons Movie is one of the best, funniest, and coolest animated films ever made. I am a huge TV buff and The Simpsons may be the lord of all television, because never before has a TV show been on this long and still feel original and funny, and making an incredible film on... read more the lord of television is only natural, and the creators really make it work. The storyline is one long Simpsons episode, but that is not a bad thing, it is a tribute to all people who have lived their lives with this yellow family. The jokes are great, this experience was the first time I had cried of laughter at the movie theatre, but one problem is that after multiple viewings it loses its hilarious feel, but the first or second viewing will feel so hilarious that you will pee of laughter. The voice acting is as great as its ever been, and I loved them. The Simpsons Movie is a tribute to the one television show that will live on forever.
  • August 25, 2011
    Again another movie that was hyped to the max and delivered very little. It had the laughs and the cheap satirical humour that we all love about the franchise, but I felt it got lost looking for itself. Definitley could have been made better, but did have some golden moments.
  • July 26, 2011
    This is, by far, the funniest movie I have ever seen. Funnier than Dumb & Dumber. Funnier than Bean. Funnier than anything I have ever seen. The Simpsons Movie is probably the first movie to have a laugh-out-loud funny joke pretty much every minute... I meant that LITERALLY. This... read more is just as funny (if not, funnier) than the TV show (Which I do really like), and is just... funny. I'm finding it pretty hard to write this comment for the fact that the more I type, the more I remember from the movie... so I keep stopping to mentally laugh and embrace how well the creators did in making this movie. The story is also excellent. There are many references to popular culture items. Harry Potter, Spider-man, Green Day, and even Grand Theft Auto make there appearances, as well as many, many others. There are even some famous actors that make there display, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hanks. Please, they worked hard on this movie, so please, buy it, 5 stars... if I could add it, 5.1 stars...

Critic Reviews


David Edelstein
August 6, 2007
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. Full Review

(CNN.com) Paul Clinton
August 3, 2007
(CNN.com) Paul Clinton, CNN.com

Nobody should have a cow. Bigger and longer don't always mean better, but The Simpsons Movie is still a cut above. Full Review

Richard Roeper
July 31, 2007
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Definitely worth your money.

Geoff Pevere
July 27, 2007
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

Some 10 years after expected, The Simpsons Movie couldn't give a doodle in a doughnut hole about expectations anyway. It may deliver what we've already got, but it leaves no doubt why we got it in the... Full Review

Dana Stevens
July 27, 2007
Dana Stevens, Slate

The Simpsons Movie is as hard to critique as it is to resist. Full Review

Peter Travers
July 27, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

This one feels incomplete, an underachiever still searching for a real reason to exist beyond enriching a fat franchise.

Elizabeth Weitzman
July 27, 2007
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

A very funny, solidly entertaining movie that, despite its unshakable obsesion with undergarments, is as sweet as a Kwik-E-Mart Squishee. Full Review

Amy Biancolli
July 27, 2007
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. Full Review

Liam Lacey
July 27, 2007
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

This is The Simpsons which, with its first big-screen effort, is underachieving and proud of it, man. Full Review

Michael Booth
July 27, 2007
Michael Booth, Denver Post

The Simpsons concept in feature length is just as reassuringly startling in its nonstop irreverence as the best of the weekly TV droppings. Full Review

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    • Ralph: I like men now.
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