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That they were trying to make a movie for a broader audience is very apparent. The intelligence of their true fanbase was disrepected and insulted with this, as Sideshow Bob would put it, "clap-trap." How so many bad ideas could have seen the big screen is what gets me. Evidently, The Simpsons writing staff are now a bunch of yes-men who think they can do no wrong. What we find is almost like a parody of the satirizing of larger issues in certain episodes. It was backbone and substance that made the show great in the first place. And that doesn't come easy. Like all good art, one has to be very self-critical to realize the true possibilities of the particular artistic vision. Over-the-top shenanigans with Homer have been the mainstay of the show for a long, long while now, but the stuff that's in this movie is so just...formulaic and unfunny. Homer and all of the characters have rarely seemed more like "cardboard cut-outs" than they do in this movie.
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