The Simpsons Movie

Continuing from the hilarious and zany TV series, the Simpson family takes to the big screen. All I have to say is: it's about bloody time!

During a Green Day concert on Springfield Lake the barge the band is on is eaten away by polluted water. After Lisa (Yeardley Smith) annoys enough people, Mayor Quimby (Dan Castellaneta) puts a wall around the lake to prevent dumping. Unfortunately for everyone, while Homer (Dan Castellaneta) is going to the dump to throw out a silo of pig crap (don't ask), the bakery is giving out free donuts. So he tosses the silo into the lake which turns out to be the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Springfield becomes so polluted that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) puts a giant dome around the town so the pollution can't spread.

The town finds out that it was Homer's trash that did it and a giant mobs goes and attack the Simpsons. They manage to get out through a sink hole and run to Alaska. That sentence only makes sense if you watch the movie. Anyway, they are making a new life for themselves as the EPA search for them and things turn to anarchy in the dome.  Then Marge (Julie Kavner) finds out that they are going to destroy Springfield.  So they race back to try to help. Well, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart (Nancy Cartwright) do and they get caught by the EPA and put back into the dome. With a bomb. It takes Homer a little longer and a medicine woman and an "epipha-tree" to get his ass moving. He ends up messing everything up but eventually he gets it right and saves the day! Go Homer go!

First of all I love The Simpsons. I think I've watched every episode like a billion times...all right that's not possible, but it feels like I have. Anyway I loved this movie. It had the exact same feel as the series, only longer and with things that the TV censors wouldn't have let them put in a TV show. (Like full frontal nudity.)  What I loved was the plot started with Homer and Bart fixing the roof and through a series of connected events, ended up with Homer saving Springfield from the American government. In what other movie is that going to happen? Awesome, completely awesome.

The only problem is that if you don't like the series, you aren't going to like the movie.

Grade: 8.5/10