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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasA 90-minute, years-in-the-making comic wind-up machine that begins by mocking its own audience for paying good money to see what it can watch at home for free and proceeds from there through the most wickedly funny arsenal of assaults on big government, organized religion and corporate America this side of "Borat."
- 88Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe result is two-tiered humor, broad enough to appeal to anybody but overlaid with jokes that will be funnier if you know the show.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe best thing about this long-awaited feature-length project, a classic Simpsonian interplay of family psychology, social commentary, and brainy visual and verbal jokes tossed off at rat-a-tat speed, is how relaxed it manages to be.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttIt's caustic, irreverent, constantly amusing and a tiny bit rude. Not a lot, though. This isn't the "Beavis and Butt-Head" or "South Park" movie. It's almost -- dare I say it -- charming.
- 80VarietyBrian LowryVarietyBrian LowryPut simply, if somebody had to make a "Simpsons" movie, this is pretty much what it should be -- clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot, capable (just barely) of sustaining a narrative roughly four times the length of a standard episode.
- 75New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThough it does have a handful of dirty jokes meant to earn the audience-pleasing PG-13 rating and features Marge swearing, it falls short of classic status.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt's hard not to like it. And in both senses of the phrase, America keeps asking for it.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is funny, sassy and intelligent in that moronic Simpsons' way.
- 63Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisIt would be a stretch to call The Simpsons Movie more than a crisper, livelier-looking episode of the series. The change in mediums changes nothing.
- 40EmpireEmpireThe message is just as clear with Simpsonian antics -- if it ain't broke, don't make a movie…