Item: 'The Simpsons Movie' is humor-packed, but not eeeeexcellent/Jake Coyle, Associated Press

In one of its greatest episodes, about Prohibition, Homer's concluding toast demonstrated how the animated series could be as damning as it was hilarious: "To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems!" "The Simpsons Movie" arrives a decade after that 1997 episode, and long after the show's glory days. Not to sound too much like the Comic Book Guy, but the Fox sitcom, which once brilliantly satirized TV's conventions, has gradually settled into its own ruts - which usually entail Homer acting silly for silliness' sake. After 18 seasons on television, the much-anticipated big-screen debut of "The Simpsons" feels purposeless - as if creator Matt Groening finally thought: "Well, we might as well."

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