Blu-Ray – Comedy Movies

Just Isn’t Any Good – TSabonis – Sioux City, IA, USA
I was a big fan of the TV series, and enjoyed the first “film” “Benders Big Score” This is the third of four Futurama “Movies”. Sigh. There is just nothing in this film that is worth mentioning. I would love to go into a lengthy detailed dissertation on why this movie was so bad, but that would be giving this waste some level of credibility it doesn’t deserve, so I will keep it brief.

There is just nothing that is funny, unique, inventive, memorable or worthwhile on this disc. It is the story of Fry, who gains the ability to read minds, a shifty cult, and LeLa joining a Enviro-Femi-Nazi group whose goal is to stop Amy’s dad from building a mini golf course. It was just so poorly put together, with no real character, lines, dialog or plot that it was a waste of time, even worse than “Beast with a Billion Backs”

Anyway, only watch this if you are a DIE HARD Futurama fan, otherwise save your money and watch almost anything else, or read a book.

T

Sorry excuse – Janvil – Tx
This dvd sucked badly. FIVE STARS for the tv series, TWO for the first three “movies” and ONE for this final “movie” known as ‘Into the Wild Green Yonder’. Nothing was funny. As much as I love Futurama for its clever humor… this was more of hubris than humor. The makers of this disaster must have assumed if fans are dumb enough to pay over for the first three “movies” of mediocrity that they would pay the same or more for this stinker. Jokes are more “heh” than “haha” and the story was just doo doo. Stick with the original 4 seasons of comedy and abandon these sorry excuses for movies. Its just a bunch of cliches similar to what made ‘Gold Member’ bomb in the Austin Powers series. This is the biggest Futurama fan there is typing this so heed my warning if you want to preserve the dignity of the characters lol.

Folks, Futurama was hilarious – TEN YEARS AGO. Let it retire and fade away into the sunset before it becomes equally as preachy and cliche as the Simpsons and other shows that nobody watches anymore.

Not as good as past seasons, but still pretty good – ChibiNeko – Whereever I go, here I am.
As with the previous three movies, this movie is feature length but was made to be cut into about 4 episodes to be played on tv. (And there’s going to be new episodes! Yay!) The only thing about ‘Green Yonder’ is that it’s very obvious that it is a bunch of episodes strung together.

This movie has the characters watching the destruction of the Mars version of Las Vegas & seeing the Wongs build a new resort… and displacing the native wildlife & greenery in the process. Infuriated, Leela vows that she’ll stop the Wong’s latest project- a massive golf course that will destroy a planet full of life in the process. Meanwhile Fry gains telepathy via a necklace lodged in his cranium & finds that (as usual) he’s being relied on to save the universe. And of course since it’s Fry, he’ll more than likely bungle much of it in the process.

I really did like this movie, it’s just that this didn’t flow together as well as some of the previous movies did. It’s pretty easy to see where the episodes were supposed to begin & end. It doesn’t make the movie unwatchable by any means, but it does sort of interrupt the viewing flow. We all know that they’re going to be sliced up into episodes, but it just makes for a jarring watching experience. Then there’s also the humor- it was good but it just wasn’t up to par with the humor in some of the other movies. (I’m not even going to bother comparing it to the humor in the tv show- that would be like comparing dollar store chocolate to Godiva’s best.)

Now there are some bonuses to this- when the humor is good, it’s good. I do also like that this movie tries incredibly hard to move some older plot points along & resolve them so they could move into new plot territory for the upcoming season. I do like some of the stories in this movie & I think that if I’d seen them as individual episodes, they would’ve been even better. It’s just the movie’s flow just sort of pulls some of the humor apart.

This is a movie that’s going to be a definite buy for Futurama collectors. If you aren’t into buying everything Futurama, I still recommend renting this at the very least. It isn’t the strongest of the movies put out, but it’s still enjoyable.