Review – The Simpsons Movie

I liked this better than I thought I was going to. Of course if the writers had five years to work on every episode of the show, it would be good like this rather than sucking the way it has for more than a decade. The animation was good, perhaps too much so. In particular, some of the computer-aided stuff was unnecessary and intrusive. The real draws here are the plot and characters. Bart isn’t really himself, which couldn’t possibly be a bad thing. And Homer’s perpetual mookishness seems to earn him a greater-than-usual amount of punishment (though still short of what he’s got coming). The story makes some clever moves, and some of the jokes actually seem well planned. I’m not sorry I waited for the DVD, but likewise I’m not sorry I saw it. Mildly amusing