The Simpsons Movie

'The Simpsons Movie' was always going to be very highly-anticipated and fanatics of the famous 'The Simpsons' comedy always had great expectations. After several years of pure hype, we were given the result of those years of work: a decent film, but a bitter disappointment.

The plot is so exaggeratedly impossible it's hilarious, and as soon as it starts, 'The Simpsons Movie' has you laughing to all manner of weird and wonderful jokes and puns. However, while this humour is fresh and funny, it begins to go downhill quite steeply.

There are some very blatant hilarity attempts which don't even work in making you smile, and this frustrating schrapnel in what was initially a humour explosion are probably what you'll despise most about the film.

Unlike such licensed films as 'The Rugrats Movie', 'The Simpsons Movie' is not made more flexible than the television series, thus making it feel like three traditional 'The Simpsons' episodes stringed together one after the other. To add to this unwanted familarity, it's as if these episodes consist of one of the really brilliant, superior episodes, one of the weak, inferior episodes and one of the average good-but-not-great episodes. Not necessarily a bad thing, but definitely not a fantastic thing either.

There's not really much more to comment about 'The Simpsons Movie'. What we see of Ralph Wiggum is fun, but there is barely enough of him to warrant your purchase, and such classic legends like Mr. Burns are barely as good as they should have been, dumped for less terrific characters such as the Environmental Protection Agency. Lisa's boyfriend seems to have been thrown in just to give Lisa a more significant role in the film, but might instead dampen the thoughts of her fanbase.

'The Simpsons Movie' is a decent film with enough references and minor twists to entertain for the first time around, but it's something you won't want to come back to and simply doesn't boast the flexibility or the humour that it should.

Three Out Of Five.