The Simpsons (2007)

K: Usually, bad previews are kind of an early warning system for sucky movies--especially in big, multiplex theaters like Quality 16. So although we'd heard great things about the Simpsons movie (good enough to make us actually go to a theater other than the Michigan), we were pretty nervous by the end of the coming features. The worst was for this movie about a guy who gets laid a lot because every woman he sleeps with finds her true love immediately afterwards.

Yeah. I think I'll skip that one.

Fortunately, the badness of the previews only reflected the badness of the summer film season (Fred Claus, anyone?) rather than the quality of the feature presentation.

There were several times that I thought I might die from the laughing. Oh the pain.

But the Simpsons are funny, so that's not really impressive in itself. What *is* impressive is that they managed to do just enough with their wide screen format and R-rating to make me feel like it was worth paying for (this didn't show at the Michigan, so we had to pay to see it), without screwing up the things that make the Simpsons so successful on tv.

But the most amazing part of the movie hit us as we were driving home afterwards--the income freshman class has never known a world without the Simpsons. Crazy man.