alexkk-29712 MY AGE RATING: 15+ for sex, drugs/alcohol/smoking, language, violence. MY MPAAA RATING: TV-RFuturama will never be as good as The Simpsons were. It is still a good show. Some episodes are plain stupid, some are good, yes, it is a hit and miss. This, can be considered an "episode". It's not really a movie, doesn't feel like one.The story is that a group of scammer aliens take over the Planet Express, and use Bender to try to take over the world. Leela falls in love with a guy, who at the end, appears to be Fry. Fry has a tattoo on his butt, which is a code for time travel, which Bender uses to travel around. Its risqué, and- kinda stupid.Yes, some good nice laughs, like when the crew comes to the nudist beach, and the sign says, "You must be this naked to enter". "How more naked can you get?", says Fry. Lol.Summary: Some screwed up plot, but laughs save it from a bad rating.

James Owen Casual fan of the original series here, always respected the ingenuity and wit of Futurama enough to sit down and give it a spare half hour, so to be blunt, I'm not the breed of obsessive fan you'll find at the conventions.And yet, I too feel disappointed after watching this feature length outing. Like all good science fiction the brilliance of Futurama (the series) was in how the other worldly setting gave enormous capacity to say things about our modern world, funny things and sometimes touching things in the case of the series. That's all gone with the film, instead we're heavily into self-reference territory - making poor jokes about New New York in 3007 rather than funny ones about New York 2007, so one of Futurama's enormous strengths is gone. It's the major gaping hole in this picture.It's variously bad for other reasons, not the least the over-use of the time travel mechanism to tell the story - which is bad news whatever the story. The songs are nowhere near the regular standard of the Simpsons/Futurama stable and cemented with nerry a care for the dialogue surrounding them. The cameos fail too - if Al Gore isn't going to have any funny lines, why not just have an impersonator read them?To sum up, let me explain the shallow depth of the humour we have here. It doesn't spoil too much to inform that in the denouement our villains employ a field of golden death stars. That's a 12-year-old's idea of funny/cool. For the rest of us, it's a cheap, tacky, sloppy solution from the writers to the problem of how to stage a final battle scene.Stick the TV re-runs instead folks.

Jeff Stone (straker-1) Terrible, TERRIBLE songs. Not a solitary laugh out loud moment. Series continuity is thrown out the window. A dull "story" that was just a grand tour of the show's best moments - bolted on to a supposedly clever and confusing time travel plot that was in fact neither. Racism everywhere, primarily anti-Semitism (the Scammers are obvious Jewish stereotypes) and the usual 'laugh at the darkies' rubbish you always get with Hermes and his family. Cruelty, disloyalty, mean-spiritedness and arrogant misanthropy masquerading as 'satire'. Which wasn't ever funny or thought-provoking. This travesty only gets 2/10 from me because it was well-animated. The almost universal acclaim this *extremely* poor movie gets just confirms for me that with fans you can put any old rubbish on screen with the Futurama logo attached, and they'll think it's the Dark Knight of animated comedy. And I kinda liked the series, too. Awful, just really awful. Did I mention the songs were terrible?

Enchorde Recap: It has been a couple of bad years for Planer Express, their deliveries cancelled for two years. But now they're back! But as usual something with the mission goes awry. This time the crew gives their e-mail addresses to a couple of strangers and subsequently everyone is scammed out of all their belongings. What is worse, Bender is uploaded with a virus forcing him to obey every command from the scammers. And with a time machine he is forced to steal every known treasure from Earths past. But more than one can play the time game, and soon everything is a mess that threatens to destroy the universe...Comments: This is a splendid comeback. At least for us Futurama-fans out there that were devastated when the show was cancelled. And Fox, sorry the Box-company, is given a kick in the beginning.Then there is a typical, but longer, Futurama-adventure with all the typical jokes, the special Futurama-humor, twists and turns. Everything that makes each and every episode great is there. Bender is as evil as ever, Fry ignorant and lovesick for Leela, Zoidberg as incompetent as only he can be, Professor Farnsworth a couple of years older still. But added to this are also a lot of flashbacks, references and pointers to a lot of earlier episodes. Most, if not all, of the notable characters make appearances. So, for you to enjoy this movie to its fullest you need to know your Futurama, and know it well.Fortunately I do know my Futurama, so I thought it was great. And I have high expectations on future Futurama-videos when they can develop a story much more than the ordinary 25 minutes.And oh, if you have the DVD, do watch the Extras. They're great.All glory to the Hypnotoad! 10/10