I noticed the same thing, no Kang even though he’s in the credits. And I stayed around for all the credits. After the last ~5 minute stretch of Korean animator names (not that there’s anything wrong with that), the ending bit was not worth sitting through all the credits for.
The movie itself was great, it wasn’t a whole lot different that the TV show (in fact Homer makes a joke about that at the beginning of the movie), but it was interesting seeing The Simpsons with a big audience, a lot of gags got bigger laughs than I would have expected. Everything looked different and more vibrant too with the extra shadowing and shading. Widescreen was nice as well, there are a couple of scenes that I’m looking forward to slow-motioning on DVD.
Oh, and seeing Bart’s wang was very disturbing, although the way they showed it was surprising and hilarious.
As to the general level of quality, I would say that its laughs-per-minute was maybe 5% lower than the very best normal episodes. But that’s still darn good on any absolute scale, and (given that it’s much longer than a normal episode) a much higher number of total laughs.
I just thought of something: Given that the family was at The Itchy and Scratchy Movie does this mean that Bart won’t grow up to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
When the dome is placed on Springfield, Marge is seen knitting a sign reading “Dome Sweet Dome.” Later, when they move to Alaska, she’s knitting a sign reading “Nome Sweet Nome.”
You’ve touched on the two reasons to see it in the theater, rather than wait until it comes out on DVD: seeing it with a crowd, and the improvement over the TV show in the way everything looked. For example, we’ve seen angry mobs before, but the one in the movie was bigger and fierier and I’m glad I got to see it on the big screen.
A nerdy complaint now: why do Marge and Homer have a wedding video? They got married at Shotgun Pete’s Wedding Chapel with Marge five or six months pregnant with Bart. The video isn’t from their second wedding because Homer still has hair and Marge has the shorter hairdo.
Lame, soulless, slick garbage. Regurgitated jokes, pointless characters and subplots. Lisa’s love interest? WTF? How long did it take to write this piece of crap?
Eskie Moe’s? Come on! And this is one of the most popular films ever. I suppose I should just post this in the Pit but I thought it was a terrible, unfunny, barely entertaining mess and I want my money and my time back!