ItWGY Reviews (Spoilers aplenty)

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I also pre ordered the DVD ages ago, in fact, I think I pre ordered it before Bender's Game had even come out so they're not losing out with me. I'm just impatient and wanted to see it ASAP, we'd all waited for so long anyway, it'd take a stronger will than mine to resist despite knowing that it's available to watch only a few mouse clicks away.

And it certainly was the best of the four, by a long shot. Even BBS has a couple of dull moments that seemed to drag but this one had my attention all the way through. Also the funniest by a long shot too. Did anyone else find Fry's telephone greeting hilarious?

I'll put this next bit in spoiler tags just in case. I'm not really revealing anything that hasn't been alluded to already but I don't want to spoil things for anyone so I'll put my question in tags.

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Was anyone else surprised that they tied up the Fry/Leela story so conclusively at the end? I was expecting another Devils Hands ending which leaves it up to your imagination but it came as a pleasant surprise to see them end it like they did. I just hope they steer well clear of the reset button this time because it'd be pretty dumb of them to retcon that. Lets see something new should the series come back, there must be plenty of humour that could be derived from them two being together, Fry's involved for crying out loud.

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I'm not too worried about the writers hitting the reset button; they've shown before that they can handle dynamic characters and relationships.

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Was anyone else surprised that they tied up the Fry/Leela story so conclusively at the end?

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Didn't seem all that surprising in the context of the rest of the movie.  They treated each other with genuine affection throughout most of it.  Particularly in the scene where she came back to get the leech before Zoidberg made a breakfast out of it.  "Sweet goof-bag".  That's cute.

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Well, originally I'd planned to actually wait until the release to watch the movie, since this was quite possibly the last futurama ever, but after the conveniently-timed rumors that there might be a new season in the works, I couldn't help myself.  Curse you, internets!

ITWGY was finally, and at long last, a return to form for Futurama.  Each of the previous movies had at least one large problem.  BBS had that whole dumb Leelu story and wasted a ton of time, BWABB had Fry and Leela so wildly out of character that I couldn't help but wonder who these people were (and the ending was truly just plain bad), and Bender's Game, though hysterically funny, just didn't feel like Futurama.  Not only was ITWGY funny, but the story was fantastic.

I dont want to give anything away, but I will say that the ending will leave just about any fan content if this is the last of the series that we see.  A couple of people have said the Fry/Leela romance sort of turns on and off like a lightswitch throughout the movie.  But I mean, come on,  they're either running away, being shot at, or hiding from various people for a good deal of the movie.  Things like that tend to kill the romantic mood, you know?

The plot itself was top-notch.  We're talking real hard-core, scifi stuff here.  My only gripe is that they didn't do as good a job as I would have liked trying to keep the nature of the big "mystery" a secret until the very end.  But meh.  

This movie was the best of the four by a long shot.  It may even rank as one of my favorite episodes of all time.  Any fan of the series should pick ITWGY up when they get a chance, especially those of you that hated some of the other movies because of the Reset Button.

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I'm about to ruin the ending, so don't read further if you havent watched the movie!

 I was really surprised by the ending.  It tied things up much better than I'd expected.  I mean, Leela actually told Fry that she loved him!  There's no reset button big enough to undo that.  (Remind me to go back in time and kick myself when I have to eat those words at the start of the supposed new season)  And now the entire crew is on the run from the law, potentially in an unknown part of the universe?  They're almost going to need to do a whole fifth movie just to get things back to the status quo.  

Oh, and did anyone else wonder what happened to all of feministas when they broke out of prison?  There were like twelve of them in the cell originally, but over the course of a couple of minutes, they start to dissapear one by one until only Leela, Amy, and LaBarbara are left...

 

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This movie was the best of the four by a long shot.  It may even rank as one of my favorite episodes of all time.

Whilst some quite rightly said that the first three movies weren't quite up to scratch with the Futurama episodes of old I'd agree with the above sentiment, this one certainly was up with the original series. In fact I'd say it probably will end up being my favourite episode/movie of all time. This one was just golden from start to finish. Brilliantly funny, great story and it had heart.

If this is the end then what a way to finish.

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I dont want to give anything away, but I will say that the ending will leave just about any fan content if this is the last of the series that we see.  A couple of people have said the Fry/Leela romance sort of turns on and off like a lightswitch throughout the movie.  But I mean, come on,  they're either running away, being shot at, or hiding from various people for a good deal of the movie.  Things like that tend to kill the romantic mood, you know?

I think it would be more accurate to say that their relationship is tested throughout the movie, and as you point out it happens because of some pretty powerful circumstances.

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I don't think that the romance aspect popped up randomly like some reviews suggested, it just wasn't always particularly obvious but it was always there in the background.

Some people may whine because "the other" was never obviously explained but if you think about it their relationship was key in achieving the goal so I guess Leela was "the other" after all despite it not being painted on the screen in big letters.

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I dont want to give anything away, but I will say that the ending will leave just about any fan content if this is the last of the series that we see.  A couple of people have said the Fry/Leela romance sort of turns on and off like a lightswitch throughout the movie.  But I mean, come on,  they're either running away, being shot at, or hiding from various people for a good deal of the movie.  Things like that tend to kill the romantic mood, you know?

The plot itself was top-notch.  We're talking real hard-core, scifi stuff here.  My only gripe is that they didn't do as good a job as I would have liked trying to keep the nature of the big "mystery" a secret until the very end.  But meh.  

This movie was the best of the four by a long shot.  It may even rank as one of my favorite episodes of all time.  Any fan of the series should pick ITWGY up when they get a chance, especially those of you that hated some of the other movies because of the Reset Button.

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Well, DAAAMMMNNN!  I hope you're serious about what you're saying, SO, because you're tastes are pretty similar to mine (at least in fanfiction), so this post has raised my hopes 987% regarding this movie.  In fact, my dormant futurama addiction is starting to stir.

I'm proud that I resisted looking at your spoilers, but I can tell I should bail out of this thread NOW because I can tell big spoilers are going to be posted from now on.

Adios!

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"Return to form"? What form would that be? First draft form?

What I'm hearing is people trying to CONVINCE themselves that Into the Wild Green Yonder was funny (FUNNY? What part?!)

ITWGY seemed to like they'd completely run out of ideas (and humor). As I said in my review, it make Bender's Big Score look like Casablanca in comparison.

It lacks any sort of structure. It's sloppy. It recycled old jokes. I wouldn't be surprised if they made another film, had Bender stroll out, crack a line about being a thief and a scoundrel and killing all humans, took a bow, and strolled out again. Good science fiction? As good a sci-fi as, say, the ending of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (laugh)

This reminds me of Return of the Jedi - unlike a lot of you, I was alive at the time it came out (I was 13, in fact), and I didn't like it much. People acted like I was crazy, but over time, people realized it wasn't very good.

A lot of people here say, "Well, I refuse to listen to JonahFalcon (or others) because they're wrong" - sounding a lot like Star Wars fans when Richard Schiekel's (sp?) negative review of The Phantom Menace came out - despite the fact they hadn't seen it.

I'm sure you'll convince yourself it's a good film, but it's pretty awful. After you've spent your money on the DVD, you'll find yourself watching it a second time, dutifully chuckling when you're supposed to, then fast forwarding to the end. Occasionally, you'll break it out to go to the chapter menu and just watch the final scene.

But, I'm willing to wait 2-3 years for you to regretfully admit my review was honest.

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"Return to form"? What form would that be? First draft form?

What I'm hearing is people trying to CONVINCE themselves that Into the Wild Green Yonder was funny (FUNNY? What part?!)

ITWGY seemed to like they'd completely run out of ideas (and humor). As I said in my review, it make Bender's Big Score look like Casablanca in comparison.

It lacks any sort of structure. It's sloppy. It recycled old jokes. I wouldn't be surprised if they made another film, had Bender stroll out, crack a line about being a thief and a scoundrel and killing all humans, took a bow, and strolled out again. Good science fiction? As good a sci-fi as, say, the ending of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (laugh)

This reminds me of Return of the Jedi - unlike a lot of you, I was alive at the time it came out (I was 13, in fact), and I didn't like it much. People acted like I was crazy, but over time, people realized it wasn't very good.

A lot of people here say, "Well, I refuse to listen to JonahFalcon (or others) because they're wrong" - sounding a lot like Star Wars fans when Richard Schiekel's (sp?) negative review of The Phantom Menace came out - despite the fact they hadn't seen it.

I'm sure you'll convince yourself it's a good film, but it's pretty awful. After you've spent your money on the DVD, you'll find yourself watching it a second time, dutifully chuckling when you're supposed to, then fast forwarding to the end. Occasionally, you'll break it out to go to the chapter menu and just watch the final scene.

But, I'm willing to wait 2-3 years for you to regretfully admit my review was honest.

Damned. I thought I was the obnoxious member of the board.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion.  I hated BBS with a white hot passion.  Others loved it.  More power to them.

That said, I rather enjoyed ITWGY despite being hit over the head with the PC messages.  As SO said, it finally "felt" like Futurama.

As for your age thing, I remember when the orignal Star Trek was on network TV, Watergate, the Iran Hostage Crisis and when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon.

But you're right about ROTJ and TFM - both sucked harder than a 20 dollar whore.

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Time to start picking nits.

As with any epic, mostly self-contained plot, there are going to be holes and glaring questions.

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The Dark Ones -- evolution's champions, and murderous telepaths -- are a species of muck leeches reduced to living only in a tiny mud puddle on Mars, even after the Encyclopods have been wiped out?  Really?  And given their ability to kill, how had they not found some way to coerce Leo or someone else into destroying the violet dwarf much earlier?

Apparently the Encyclopods and Dark Ones began as species who cooperated in order to survive.  At the end, there's a genuine ethical dilemma regarding the preservation of the Dark One's DNA -- are they innately evil? -- which is cheaply squashed when Zoidberg devours the Dark One's remains.  I guess the Rule of Funny wins here, but it still feels like a cop-out.

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As for your age thing, I remember when the orignal Star Trek was on network TV, Watergate, the Iran Hostage Crisis and when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon.

I'm with you on this one, Ralph.  (Not the ROTJ opinion, though.  I liked that one.)  Jonah Falcon, don't try and pull the ageist crap here.  Today happens to be my 51st birthday. 

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Great movie! but it can´t be over!!

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"Return to form"? What form would that be? First draft form?

What I'm hearing is people trying to CONVINCE themselves that Into the Wild Green Yonder was funny (FUNNY? What part?!)

ITWGY seemed to like they'd completely run out of ideas (and humor). As I said in my review, it make Bender's Big Score look like Casablanca in comparison.

It lacks any sort of structure. It's sloppy. It recycled old jokes. I wouldn't be surprised if they made another film, had Bender stroll out, crack a line about being a thief and a scoundrel and killing all humans, took a bow, and strolled out again. Good science fiction? As good a sci-fi as, say, the ending of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (laugh)

This reminds me of Return of the Jedi - unlike a lot of you, I was alive at the time it came out (I was 13, in fact), and I didn't like it much. People acted like I was crazy, but over time, people realized it wasn't very good.

A lot of people here say, "Well, I refuse to listen to JonahFalcon (or others) because they're wrong" - sounding a lot like Star Wars fans when Richard Schiekel's (sp?) negative review of The Phantom Menace came out - despite the fact they hadn't seen it.

I'm sure you'll convince yourself it's a good film, but it's pretty awful. After you've spent your money on the DVD, you'll find yourself watching it a second time, dutifully chuckling when you're supposed to, then fast forwarding to the end. Occasionally, you'll break it out to go to the chapter menu and just watch the final scene.

But, I'm willing to wait 2-3 years for you to regretfully admit my review was honest.

You hated it, I loved it, opinions are wonderful aren't they?

It's not a cause of people trying to convince themselves that it was good just for the sake of it. You didn't like it, fine, but there's little point attempting to convince other people that they should also hate it...just as it's not worth anyone trying to change your mind.

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cohen certainly wasn't lying when he said it had a great ending. 

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I watched the movie last night. When it ended I didn't have anything to say. It didn't work for me.

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The way it ended made no sense because the Fry/Leela relationship was ignored for the last two movies. It seemed like they were taking it in another direction, which felt wrong in itself. But to just pick it back up suddenly made even less sense, and the way they carried it out was disinteresting and forced. An episode of Futurama would focus on it as a main storyline but now as a movie it's just one of too many stories, meaning it was unable to be built up for that nice feeling you'd normally get had it been a single episode.

The general storyline was silly too. They've already done envrionmental issue episodes, there's nowhere to go with it. I'm really disappointed with the fact that this was the last movie. It had nothing significant about it. Sure, Fry and Leela are finally together, apparently. Fry's done much more romantic things for her in the past, why now? Bender, Fanny and the Don Bot went nowhere, what was the point? I thought it was really obvious as well that the Dark One was the leech, and it wasn't as interesting as Lars being Fry. At least with that storyline if you figured it out before the end it still had a little bit of impact. Who cares about a flipping leech? Aside from Leela of course, which was ridiculous. I seem to remember a similar incident where Leela wanted to save a much cuter and more intelligent creature who didn't even feature in this movie.

I hope they do make more episodes. It can't end this way 

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Oh, and did anyone else wonder what happened to all of feministas when they broke out of prison?  There were like twelve of them in the cell originally, but over the course of a couple of minutes, they start to dissapear one by one until only Leela, Amy, and LaBarbara are left...

 

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maybe they got gunned down from the guards...

In my opinion I think this movie could compete with SOME of the original episodes, it was so good and had an amazing story and ending.  That was more emotional than jurassic bark.

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UGH! I can't wait any longer to see this movie!
I'm very nervous to see what happens to Fry & Leela. I wish they would just give in!!!!
 I've read most spoilers, and I'm trying VERY hard not to read the really hardcore spoilers. I read one sentence of a big spoiler, then I freaked out and closed it!!! haha

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"Return to form"? What form would that be? First draft form?

What I'm hearing is people trying to CONVINCE themselves that Into the Wild Green Yonder was funny (FUNNY? What part?!)

ITWGY seemed to like they'd completely run out of ideas (and humor). As I said in my review, it make Bender's Big Score look like Casablanca in comparison.

It lacks any sort of structure. It's sloppy. It recycled old jokes. I wouldn't be surprised if they made another film, had Bender stroll out, crack a line about being a thief and a scoundrel and killing all humans, took a bow, and strolled out again. Good science fiction? As good a sci-fi as, say, the ending of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (laugh)

This reminds me of Return of the Jedi - unlike a lot of you, I was alive at the time it came out (I was 13, in fact), and I didn't like it much. People acted like I was crazy, but over time, people realized it wasn't very good.

A lot of people here say, "Well, I refuse to listen to JonahFalcon (or others) because they're wrong" - sounding a lot like Star Wars fans when Richard Schiekel's (sp?) negative review of The Phantom Menace came out - despite the fact they hadn't seen it.

I'm sure you'll convince yourself it's a good film, but it's pretty awful. After you've spent your money on the DVD, you'll find yourself watching it a second time, dutifully chuckling when you're supposed to, then fast forwarding to the end. Occasionally, you'll break it out to go to the chapter menu and just watch the final scene.

But, I'm willing to wait 2-3 years for you to regretfully admit my review was honest.

Well, I LOVED Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and I happen to be the biggest Star Wars fan ever. So, I'm assuming if you think those were terrible, then this should be the greatest Futurama movie EVER!!

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Well, I LOVED Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and I happen to be the biggest Star Wars fan ever. So, I'm assuming if you think those were terrible, then this should be the greatest Futurama movie EVER!!

I wasn't particularly fond on the new Indiana Jones, but you got the rest of it right..

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I watched the movie last night. When it ended I didn't have anything to say. It didn't work for me.

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The way it ended made no sense because the Fry/Leela relationship was ignored for the last two movies. It seemed like they were taking it in another direction, which felt wrong in itself. But to just pick it back up suddenly made even less sense, and the way they carried it out was disinteresting and forced. An episode of Futurama would focus on it as a main storyline but now as a movie it's just one of too many stories, meaning it was unable to be built up for that nice feeling you'd normally get had it been a single episode.

The general storyline was silly too. They've already done envrionmental issue episodes, there's nowhere to go with it. I'm really disappointed with the fact that this was the last movie. It had nothing significant about it. Sure, Fry and Leela are finally together, apparently. Fry's done much more romantic things for her in the past, why now? Bender, Fanny and the Don Bot went nowhere, what was the point? I thought it was really obvious as well that the Dark One was the leech, and it wasn't as interesting as Lars being Fry. At least with that storyline if you figured it out before the end it still had a little bit of impact. Who cares about a flipping leech? Aside from Leela of course, which was ridiculous. I seem to remember a similar incident where Leela wanted to save a much cuter and more intelligent creature who didn't even feature in this movie.

I hope they do make more episodes. It can't end this way 

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Having Fry and Leela on very close terms was very abrupt, but I for one didn't particularly need to see scene after scene of Fry attemping these ham-fisted romantic gestures and acting like a petulant child, Leela callously blowing him off, etc.

As for why Leela would suddenly start to appreciate Fry now...well, perhaps she discovered that what she really wants is not some romantic Casanova to sweep her off her feet, but rather someone who loves her for who she is and would freely give himself up for her.

I also agree that the ecological theme was not the strongest -- it seemed to lack much of the nuance and subtlety of the other environmentally-minded episodes of the series and was riddled with holes.  More and more seems to me that it was conceived not principally for its own merit, but to put our heroes in difficult situations and test their loyalty to each other.  For that purpose, I think it worked fine.

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I watched the movie last night. When it ended I didn't have anything to say. It didn't work for me.

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The way it ended made no sense because the Fry/Leela relationship was ignored for the last two movies. It seemed like they were taking it in another direction, which felt wrong in itself. But to just pick it back up suddenly made even less sense, and the way they carried it out was disinteresting and forced. An episode of Futurama would focus on it as a main storyline but now as a movie it's just one of too many stories, meaning it was unable to be built up for that nice feeling you'd normally get had it been a single episode.

The general storyline was silly too. They've already done envrionmental issue episodes, there's nowhere to go with it. I'm really disappointed with the fact that this was the last movie. It had nothing significant about it. Sure, Fry and Leela are finally together, apparently. Fry's done much more romantic things for her in the past, why now? Bender, Fanny and the Don Bot went nowhere, what was the point? I thought it was really obvious as well that the Dark One was the leech, and it wasn't as interesting as Lars being Fry. At least with that storyline if you figured it out before the end it still had a little bit of impact. Who cares about a flipping leech? Aside from Leela of course, which was ridiculous. I seem to remember a similar incident where Leela wanted to save a much cuter and more intelligent creature who didn't even feature in this movie.

I hope they do make more episodes. It can't end this way 

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Having Fry and Leela on very close terms was very abrupt, but I for one didn't particularly need to see scene after scene of Fry attemping these ham-fisted romantic gestures and acting like a petulant child, Leela callously blowing him off, etc.

As for why Leela would suddenly start to appreciate Fry now...well, perhaps she discovered that what she really wants is not some romantic Casanova to sweep her off her feet, but rather someone who loves her for who she is and would freely give himself up for her.

I also agree that the ecological theme was not the strongest -- it seemed to lack much of the nuance and subtlety of the other environmentally-minded episodes of the series and was riddled with holes.  More and more seems to me that it was conceived not principally for its own merit, but to put our heroes in difficult situations and test their loyalty to each other.  For that purpose, I think it worked fine.

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Leela and Fry being on close terms wasn't really that abrupt when you take into account how that storyline had been developing over the entire series. The last two movies didn't really develop it in any way but in the TV series there weren't that many episodes dealing with it meaning the vast majority of episodes didn't address it at all. Plus I suppose the "sudden" closeness only really came about because the scene in question dealt with Leela running off to be a fugitive, they didn't really know if they'd ever see each other again.

This movie seemed to be more about Leela finally seeing what she needed to in Fry, we already know what Fry thinks but I'd say that when Leela decided to trust him at the end just because of who he was, despite all of what she'd heard and seen making it seem like Fry was working against her, it was a pretty huge development and, as it turned out, it was a key one.

I think the writers handled this part of the story very well, they didn't go overboard but they didn't need to.

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After seeing all the movies here are my rankings.
1. Into the wild green yonder 9.5
2. Beast with a billion backs 9.0
3. Bender's Big Score 8.5
4. Bender's Game 7.5

I changed my mind about Bender's game because after several viewings its humor becomes boring. That was the only thing it had going for it too.

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My thoughts exactly. Hope your not reading my mind, shouldn't be since the tin foil hat is on.

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Here's my ratings out of 10, had to revise them slightly after seeing ITWGY as that put a new slant on the others.

BBS: 8.5
BWABB: 5.5
BG: 7
ITWGY: 10

So ITWGY is the clear winner for me, 10 out of 10 might seem like fanboy esque hyperbole to some (particularly those that hated it) but I really loved it. It'll almost certainly go down as my favourite episode/movie of all time as it just encapsulated everything that made Futurama so great, it had the humour, the story and the heart.

Bender's Big Score was very good too, despite some people hating it. It had the story and the heart but it did lack one very key element which was the humour. It had its moments but it didn't make me laugh that much, ITWGY had me laughing throughout.

Bender's Game was good but the last twenty minutes were pretty yawnsome and the ending was one of those godawful last minute clean up jobs which just smacked of lazy writing and no real direction. It did have a number of laugh out loud moments though so it's worth a watch now and again.

BWABB was average at the very best, good opening half an hour but after that it just tailed off into nothing and the jokes soon dried up. I doubt I'll watch this one very much in the future.

I'd say the movie idea was worth it on the whole, in fact it would be worth it just for ITWGY. The middle two seemed to suffer from the 'cut into four episodes' idea and that probably did them no favours but ITWGY proved to me that making a brilliant Futurama movie was possible.

If it's the end then they ended on a huge high.

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Oh, piccy time!
Speaking of which, after playing the slots on the site, I got all the wallpapers and the screensaver (Ask for screensaver)








To be on the safe side, All imagry on this post belongs to ilovebender.com and the whole Futurama team.

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Watched it today. Pure Futurama through and through. It took them four goes to get it right, but when they did they got it spot-on.

Now that they've got the movie-making biz down to a fine art, I hope we can look forward to a theatrical release at some point.

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finally found what the caption is,

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the humans shall not defeat us

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Most of the clips at youtube are now kaput!

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I may be sick with a nasty little cold right now, but here's my lay-down on the good, the bad, and the ugly of "Into the Wild Green Yonder" (so I guess this would be a review). Don't read on if you want this movie to be spoiled.

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I thought that the movie was excellent. The intro was amazing and catchy- Seth has a great voice and I'd like to see him in more Futurama in the future. The plotline was definitely more intriguing and complicated than what they conjured up for "Bender's Big Score", and it was by far way better than it too. Video- beautiful. The Feministas- crazy yet good. Everything, overall, pretty good.

Fry's performance in "Into the Wild Green Yonder" is one of the best I've seen of him. Great lines made him lovable. His tinfoil hat added a lot of character. I LOVED his cell phone telephone's ringtone. Perfect touch.

The grand finale was perfect. In fact, it reminds me of a pernament ending made by a fan in a post somewhere on PEEL (I'll have to dig that up later). It leaves a clear view of the future for fans- if Futurama does get renewed, then we'll see where it goes from there. If it doesn't, we can all assume- in comfort- that they died and we'll never see them again. Personally, I'd like to see it get renewed so then the Futurama crew would have an episode or four to explain where the wormhole took them and how they'll handle Zapp Brannigan on the hunt for them. Though there is some fear that the crew would pull a "Bender's Big Score" on all of us and start fresh new with no explanation of what occurred over the last few years and ignoring past events, considering that a renew of the series would have to come soon unlike how it was when it got renewed this time around, I do have faith that they'd continue from where "Into the Wild Green Yonder" left off, especially since "Into the Wild Green Yonder" was done so well. Oh and P.S.: The lines in the end were perfect- including Fry and Leela's confident kiss.

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"Into the Wild Green Yonder" had a lot of comedy to it. I love the cutscene where Fry enters the Women's Locker Room- it seemed like Fry. Also, the "Feministas Unite" thing was... well, I think both genders are speechless on that.

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I really wish there was some more time for that movie. While I've only seen the entire movie in chopped up bits and pieces on YouTube, I wish there was more to savour. For example, there should've been more scenes with Fry experimenting with his newfound ability to read minds. Also, the Fry and Leela relationship needed some more foundation in this movie- not a lot more, just a little. Though the relationship seemed to come from who knows where, it still went over well with me.

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But, I also must go on to say that the scene with the asteriod sperm and the violet dwarf egg is the most disturbing and fucked-up thing in Futurama. And then the scene went on to show a zygote developing. Other than that, I'm stumped on what my thoughts were on that.

Related to that topic, I thought the message that I think they were trying to convey was stupid. First off, whenever I watched the movie the first time, I had an impression that they were trying to convey a "pro-life" message with the entire "every life is sacred" and the "we must protect all life" and the giant egg and sperm in the sky deal. As a strong pro-choice supporter, I was seriously freaking out. I thought that they were doing an entire Monty Python on us (search song "Every Sperm is Sacred"). Then, now going back and re-watching the parts, it seems like that they were trying to be both pro-life and pro-choice, more maybe neutral with a slant to one or the other (I can't tell which way). But, still.

The entire "ressurrect all extinct species" concept didn't fly for me at all. I can't believe that they made a stupid story up about the "Dark One" killing off other species and then trying to view "natural selection" as an enemy. There is a freaking reason why they call it natural selection, and that is because it is totally natural for species to go extinct. There has to be a survival of the fittest, and if a species cannot pass that bar, then they do deserve to go extinct since that's life. Gawd, it just doesn't make any sense. I'll try to take this over to the "Re-Check/Weird Scenes" board when the movie is released.

"Into the Wild Green Yonder" will definitely place in my top episodes. And yes, I say it's better than the previous series finale, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". Matt Groening and David X. Cohen have finally proved that they can create Futurama just as good- and maybe even better- than the original. Futurama deserves to be renewed now more than ever.

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Can I get an "AWWWWWWW"?

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Gave in and watched it, rationalizing I was buying the DVD anyway.

They did it.  It's GOOD!  HUMOR!  ACTION!  ROMANCE!  And dare I say-- PLOT!  Looks like they put their effort into making a good first and last movie, and filled the other two with filler.  Loved Fry's self-soliloquy at the end, and loved the line

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"but humans aren't an endangered species."

They'll be back.  This DVD is going to have great sales.

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[...] and loved the line

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"but humans aren't an endangered species."

Sounds like they're making way for a future story...

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Sounds like they're making way for a future story...

Or just making a sly comment on us.  There were a lot of jokes like that in the movie--not laugh out loud slapstick, but satire and irony.  Fine with me.  I thought there was equal-opportunity skewing of all political viewpoints, as well. I'm also fine with how they treated the character relationships. 

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(only three F/L shipper scenes, but weren't they good? One even reminded me of Casablanca, no offense to JonahFalcon... ).

It's gonna take them at least one movie/four episodes to successfully press the reset button after this one.

Also, did anyone else think the musical score and opening was noticeably better in this movie than in the others?

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Can I get an "AWWWWWWW"?

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Yes, yes you can.

Bout damn time.

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Sounds like they're making way for a future story...

Or just making a sly comment on us.  There were a lot of jokes like that in the movie--not laugh out loud slapstick, but satire and irony.  Fine with me.  I thought there was equal-opportunity skewing of all political viewpoints, as well. I'm also fine with how they treated the character relationships. 

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(only three F/L shipper scenes, but weren't they good? One even reminded me of Casablanca, no offense to JonahFalcon... ).

It's gonna take them at least one movie/four episodes to successfully press the reset button after this one.

Did you just review my review?

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Did you just review my review?

You mean the "political viewpoints?"  I meant the movie had an environmental theme while still poking fun at environmentalists and protest politics in general.  Not pro-life/ anti-life (or is it anti-choice/pro-choice?) politics.

Oh, and Crash, will a lower case awwwwwww..... do?

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(although I never knew Leela had a neck like a giraffe...)

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Eh, I could care less about the politics in the movie right now (again, I don't think they were trying to be political). The environmental message bothered me since it doesn't really make any sense.

Oh, and aww... so sweet...

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Turns out the bad guy isn't global warming, or pollution, or evil corporations, its natural selection.

FU Darwin.

Brain was happy to filter those nasty logical thoughts that tend to ruin things seeing as the movie really was pretty good.