Customer Reviews

love 31st century style - By: Paul Tapner, 02 Sep 2008
futurama, the science fiction cartoon brought to you by those who made the simpsons, returns for another tv movie. like the first onein this range, bender's big score, it's actually four episodes that form one long story joined togetherin one long 85 minute movie.

and anyone who says it's not funny is absolutely right. because it's not funny. It's absolutely hilarious!

slightly better paced as a movie than bender's big score, the jokes just keep coming & the pace never lets up for eighty five minutes as a result. & very very funny these jokes are. the film follows on directly from the cliffhanger ending of bender's big score, but you don't need to have watched thatin order to get into this.

the story involves several of the characters falling into relationships, whilst others go on an expedition to a spatial anomaly that leads through to another universe. & what lies beyond will have an effect on the entire human race...

the disc allows you direct scene access, & subtitlesin danish finnish norwegian swedish & english. english is the only language track available.

extras wise this isn't quite as good as bender's big score, the vast majority of them being features about the animation. & whether you'll enjoy those depends on how interested you arein such things.

you see the entire first quarter of the filmin storyboard form, running twenty two minutes.

there are also short features on the 3d models usedin the animation, & the design of the deathball stadium seenin it.

there's a short feature on the character of yivo & the voiceover artist who does his voice, which is quite fun.

a handful of deleted scenes, donein storyboard form, all of which are very funny.

a trailer for bender's game, the nextin the series which is outin november.

and one absolute gem: futurama, the lost adventure. a few years back there was a futurama computer game, & this is all the linked scenes from the game that form a story on their own, with occasional shots of the gamein the middle. running the length of a usual episode it's very funny, & contains a killer final twist. the animation style is rather different to the tv show & is, as they say on it, 3D. SORT OF. but it's quite nice to look at.

commentaries for this & the main film from the cast & crew are also on the disc.

and for an easter egg go to the special features menu & click on where it says globo scope & you'll see an image of a certain item that appearsin the movie. there's nothing more to it than that, though.

but allin all, a great futurama movie & not a bad package for it. can't wait for the next one.

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Not perfect but definitely good fun! - By: N. Preskey, 25 Aug 2008
The plot of this feature length Futurama episode is no where near as intelligent as "Bender's Big Score" but it is just as enjoyable & possibly slightly more humourous ("Bender's Big Score" wasn't big on laughs). The funniest part for me was Destructor's line "MY LEG FEELS FUNNY!" this was back to the old almost unexplained hilarity of Futurama.

However, the storyline is generally quite gross, which wouldn't bother everyone, but if you only like Futurama's really intelligent brand of humour, this is not for you.

The special features are brilliant, particularly the animated trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth" & the epidode comprised of all the cut scenes from the old Futurama videogame, a real must have for any Futurama collection.

Overall, I would say that this is brilliant for Futurama fans, it may not be as good as the series, but this is only because of the nature of the format.

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WATCH IT AGAIN - By: Matt9537, 24 Aug 2008
I made the same mistake with this one as I did the last. I watched it the whole way through & came away thinking it was dreadful. Now, after watching itin 20 mins clips (as 4 episodes rather than a movie) I must confess....it is as good as the TV shows.

With Bender taking over Earth, Fry becoming pope of a new religion....this cannot be missed for a futurama fan...

gotta wait till Nov now for the next 1

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So weak! No comparison to the TV series. - By: Mr. Chris Theodosiou, 09 Aug 2008
This & "Benders Big Score" where such a let down for me. I'm a huge fan of the TV series & was looking forward to these feature length films. But all the writers have managed to do is mess up the characters & storylines created by the excellent TV series. All the jokes have been taken from the series. The storylines are weak & they just drag on & on.

I wish they never bothered

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Solid Futurama stuff... - By: Mr. A. M. HOGG, 07 Aug 2008
I must be one of the very few people that prefered Bender's Big Score to this effort, which I gave 4 stars.

Don't get me wrong, this is funny & average for Futurama, which for a fan still makes it better than alternatives! There were funny things going on, but the whole tentacle thing ended up being tedious for me as did the colleen poly-relationship "joke". Could see where that was going pretty quick.

Some people said Big Score was too confusing.... Well, it's a sad fact that some things do need an IQin double figures to follow. Hardly fair for all animated fun to be simplistic! For me, this was also too repetitive. A recycled swamp side-story is a prime example of this.

But.... As is sometimes the case with Futurama, the odd flashes of genius burst so brightly that their after image puts other more mediocre contentin a better light, rather than just blowing it away. Bender's comments on love/lealousy are excellent observational type comedy, & the thing with the bricks... VERY funny. Almost made 3 stars into 4in it's own right!