It’s remarkable that it took so long to develop a Simpsons movie. On the other hand, they did it right, by keeping their own writing staff on the project instead of spinning it off to another group. What’s interesting about this is that it doesn’t feel like an extended episode. It probably would be much more exhausting if it was.
The movie is paced correctly, but when you think back on it, it’s far less dense than a Simpsons episode usually is. There are jokes, and most of them are good. But there aren’t as many brief gags being packed in. They spend more time focusing on developing the story and keeping the plot moving along. This is good - the episodic approach only makes for a nice movie for fans of the series. This works out much better.
There’s one thing that bugs me about the movie, and it’s a fanboy kind of issue. I wish they had done it sooner. One of the core elements of the plot is the threat to Homer and Marge’s relationship. This has been done over and over in the show, and it feels like a generic go-to plot device.
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