After coming 18 years of television, the pressure was on the filmmakers to come up with something that didn't stink, and they pulled him off. The movie is a big screen episode of the TV show, but a good one, and since the series is brilliant, that alone makes it highly entertaining.
It sags in the middle when the family go off to Alaska - there's a lot of tap dancing going on here - and one is surprised they couldn't come up with a stronger second act, something with a bit more narrative drive. They are quite mean to Homer, he's not sympathetic.
Some concessions to the big screen: Otto on a bong, hilarious nudity, the shape of the pig refuse silo, and some clever use of spectacular animation.
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