Futurama Movie Out November 27 on DVD

[Sava]

lol... the trailer was hilarious

 

[JP]

Trailer was amazing. :heart:

 

[DocHoliday]

I cannot wait for new Futurama! I have watched reruns for years and Is till hold onto a little hope that the show will come back just like Family Guy (which I actually do not care for). Oh and JP glad to see a fellow Conchords fan!

 

[tzarinna]

This will be fun to have.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Hopefully it'll be good or they can bite my shiny metal a**!




Yeeeeeeeeah, bad pun.

 

[War Party]

Next Tuesday

The future is now, even though the future was put on hold for a bit.

Futurama, the Matt Groening-created animated series that mixed sci-fi and humor in liberal doses, ran on Fox TV for four seasons before being relegated to the dustbin of cancellation and reruns in 2003. But a new future is on the horizon.

Futurama: Bender’s Big Score is the first of four new feature-length DVD releases coming from Fox Home Entertainment. The new Futurama flick hits stores on November 27, but Fox took time to launch its new future Hollywood-style, with a massive red carpet premiere party last week in Los Angeles at the famed Arclight Cinerama Dome theater on Sunset Boulevard. The entire cast and crew showed up, including Matt Groening, who made special mention of the show’s fans.

“I worked with [Head Writer and Executive Producer] David Cohen on Futurama right for the very beginning, and we never really quit. We were always throwing around story ideas,” Groening said. “We would go to the San Diego Comic-Con every year and that coterie of rabid fans just never went away. We kept promising we’d come back, and finally we did. Finally we’re not lying anymore.”

As much as it was a night for cast and crew to take a bow, so too it was for its fans. To Fox’ credit, a large section of the premiere screening was reserved for hardcore Futurama fans, culled from various fansites. And probably needless to say, most of the loudest laughs were heard from that section during the premiere.

Cohen echoed Groening’s sentiments as well. “We were gone for 3-4 years, but people kept watching on TV and buying DVDs and Fox finally realized they were still making good money on a show they canceled years ago,” the writer/producer said. “So they decided to resuscitate the show.”

All the Futurama hallmarks are still in place in Bender’s Big Score. Fry is still a bungling delivery boy, accidentally cryogenically frozen in our time and thawed out 1000 years later. He works at Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth’s Planet Express where he remains…a bungling delivery boy even 1000 years later. Bender is Fry’s best friend and Planet Express’ resident alcohol-fueled robot; while Leela is the one-eyed bombshell Planet Express pilot, and Fry’s unrequited love.

Just like on the show, crazy situations and dark humor play a large part in Bender’s Big Score. Nudist alien Internet scammers (you read that right) find the secret of time travel tattooed on Fry’s ass (you read that right, too). Taking control of Bender with virus software, they send the robot back in time again and again to loot Earth of all its treasures until they own the planet. Doing the flick was a bit of fun for David Herman, who voiced the evil nudist alien leader. “I have a passive adhesion to evil nudity in real life, so it’s not really a stretch for me,” he laughed. “But the best part of animation, especially when you’re doing something satirical, is that you can go so much farther. If you’re gonna beat someone up, you can really smack ’em up and it’s still ‘just a cartoon.’ You can really push the envelope.”

The film does have several cringe-worthy humor moments, and yes, time paradoxes are part of the plot, where they are confusingly—yet funnily—addressed. That’s just the way Futurama fans like it, according to Cohen. “The fans are smart. They’re detail-oriented,” he said. “The show is really packed with jokes in the background. If you can translate the alien languages, they really mean things. If you see graffiti in the background of a scene, it can be decoded.”

Guest voice aplenty also Pepper Bender’s Big Score, including Sarah Silverman, Coolio, and a very big name in the film world.

“It’s got Al Gore attached to it, so it has to be good, right?” said Lauren Tom, who plays Planet Express intern Amy Wong. “He won an Academy Award!”

Tom used the occasion of the premiere to tell her secret origin in landing the Amy Wong role back in 1999. “The wanted an Asian woman, but I wasn’t right for the part,” she revealed. “But Matt loved my insane laugh.” Groening loved it so much, the character was re-styled to match Tom’s personality…and stature. She stands maybe all of 4-foot-10. “The character was originally tough, and a little Butch. He tailored it more to me. She’s now more girly, more ditzy. Though I’m not sure ‘ditzy’ is a compliment.”

For his part, Groening is happy simply to see new Futurama back in front of the fans. He’s also happy for his dueling day jobs. “I run back and forth,” he said. “Here’s the greatest thing about having two animated projects: I can tell the Simpsons people I’m working on Futurama, and the Futurama people I’m working on Simpsons. Then I just go home and take a nap.”

Groening is also happy for the culmination of a lifelong dream. “When I was a kid, I knew I’d be drawing cartoons for the rest of my life,” he said. “I just didn’t know I’d be doing it for a living. I thought I’d be a shoe salesman or something—you know, something terrible. This is much better.”

 

[tzarinna]

Nice reminder.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Hmm... Any news on when Comedy Central will air these?

 

[War Party]

Hmm... Any news on when Comedy Central will air these?

Sometime in 2008

 

[Spider-Vader]

Months?

 

[War Party]

Months?

I don't know

 

[Theweepeople]

I only saw a handful of Futurama episodes in the past. Did this series ever have a big fanbase? I know many people personally who like the simpsons, family guy, king of the hill, and south park. I don't know anyone who liked Futurama. Some of my friends hadn't even heard of it until it aired on the cartoon network.

 

[War Party]

I only saw a handful of Futurama episodes in the past. Did this series ever have a big fanbase? I know many people personally who like the simpsons, family guy, king of the hill, and south park. I don't know anyone who liked Futurama. Some of my friends hadn't even heard of it until it aired on the cartoon network.

DVD sales tell the whole story on the fanbase. It's a very large fanbase

 

[AhabTheArab]

Futurama will stand the test of time, unlike Family Guy. and yes you may quote me.

very excited for the new dvd.

 

[Masamune]

This is like my favorite show, I gotta pick this up.

 

[War Party]

 

[Theweepeople]

DVD sales tell the whole story on the fanbase. It's a very large fanbase

This is what I find to be very bizzare. If the fanbase is big then the ratings must have been great. Why did it only last a few seasons?

 

[Flexo]

This is what I find to be very bizzare. If the fanbase is big then the ratings must have been great. Why did it only last a few seasons?

The show started finding its audience after it was already cancelled and Adult Swim began to air it.

 

[Addendum]

I still need to pick up the DVDs. I'll keep an eye out for the movies also.

Futurama is still a damn good show

 

[Steyin]

I'll have a "copy" of this tomorrow >_>

 

[War Party]

I'll have a "copy" of this tomorrow >_>

Yeah, it's already been leaked and it was really funny. I still plan on buying it on tues. I'm supporting this show.

 

[AhabTheArab]

really it leaked online? pm...?

 

[black_dust]

Well i just watched it, it was pretty good some funny moments in it, but kinda guessed what would happen from the start.... oh well

7/10

 

[Roughneck]

I'm about to watch it....I'll review it later.

Wether I like it or not I am still buying it on Tuesday.


For the Record, I work in a video Store that's how I got it, I do not support internet piracy

 

[Rac]

This is what I find to be very bizzare. If the fanbase is big then the ratings must have been great. Why did it only last a few seasons?

Fox.