The Simpsons Movie

There were plenty of decent jokes, but I've already forgotten most of them; I suspect within a month's time I'll be hard pressed to recall much about the movie at all beyond a vague sense of disappointment.

The incomparable gang at full length for the first time, with enough jokes, satire, nonsense, and sentiment to justify the eighty-eight minutes.

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.

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

Definitely worth your money.

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 first place.

The big-screen Simpsons are mildly entertaining, but too much of this is as flabby as Homer's belly.

The Simpsons Movie successfully makes a big experience of one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

Why do I still feel a bit jilted? Because the premise is actually kind of promising.

Simpsons fans will love it unreservedly, I was amused and passably entertained. It's better if less daring than the South Park movie and sharper if less poignant than the first Rugrats one.

It's very well written and, as I say, it's consistently funny.