January 27, 2008
The Simpsons Movie
Big hearty helping of MEH. It’s basically an episode of the Simpsons from a middling year — season eight or nine, say — when they were good but not super-awesomely brilliant, except then they take advantage of their PG-13 to make jokes that are funny only to small children (e.g., someone saying “penis” and yes that’s pretty much the whole joke). Not horrible or anything, but people who said it was as funny as the Simpsons at their prime don’t remember their prime.