New Futurama Movie Coming in June

walterbyrd writes "Bender's Big Score is just getting set to air on Comedy Central, but already Fox has announced that the next straight-to-DVD Futurama film/series is coming in June. The title? 'The Beast with a Billion Backs.' 'In what Fox is calling the most tentacle-packed Futurama epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. What lies beyond is a mix of horror and love as the Planet Express crew encounters a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions. The second feature-length Futurama film will be followed by at least two more movies from series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. The show's entire voice cast and most of its main writers have returned to help revive the series, which FOX cancelled in 2003.'"

Futurama

[boyko.at.netqos]

It makes you wonder why TV shows don't skip the network alltogether and go straight to DVD in the first place.

Re:Better in half-hour installments

[Rutulian]

That's funny because I thought Bender's Big Score was terrible. My roommate and I loved the old Futurama episodes and have watched them all several times over. About 30 minutes into the movie, we were looking at each other and asking, "Is this Futurama?" I had to force myself to sit through the whole thing, hoping that it would get better, but all I got was a seemingly endless stream of jokes and gags repeated over in a bad way from the series. And the fart joke level of humor was pretty excessive. I always liked Futurama because it didn't have a lot of that, and instead had a lot of subtle humor that could really be appreciated by geeks.

I'm really hoping the second movie is better....

Re:Movie good, but...

[moderatorrater]

My opinion is that they had to do some fan service for the first movie, and that these next ones should be able to get away from that.

Re:Futurama

[Higaran]

Because if you have never seen something like on the big screen or on tv, there is almost no chance of you going out any buying or renting it. Unless its christmas shopping time, and you grap like 10 dvds from the bargin bin at walmart for like $5.00 to give out as stocking stuffers. I welcome our new overload the beast with a billion backs.

Re:Better in half-hour installments

[explosivejared]

The thing about Bender's Big Score is that it wasn't made to be successful in the normal sense. It was much more an homage to the fans that have waited the series out. The plot is one essentially that would work really well as a half-hour episode, but instead it's intentionally stretched out to allow for a lot of in-jokes and nods to long time fans. They knew exactly what they were doing when they made BBS. I see the new one being a regular old movie with no ulterior motive other than to entertain. Now I know making a movie that is successful and able to stand on its own is hard, but I have faith that David X. Cohen and the rest of the lot can do it.

Re:Better in half-hour installments

[LunaticTippy]

Maybe you are used to these shows on a SD feed, which would tend to blur this. Another possibility is your TV is higher res than the dvd and the upscaling artifacts are visible.

Re:Better in half-hour installments

[CKW]

YES. That's exactly what I thought. They went out of their way to re-do gags they've done before and "show" every character ever in the series, no matter how irrelevant to the plot. Like you were watching a kitschy movie trying to remind you of how great it's past was - but DOING NOTHING NEW OR INTERESTING. HUGE disappointment.

Any two episodes from the series was better than the first movie. Any two. Many individual episodes from the series were better than the whole movie.

Re:Futurama

[Jerf]

We're getting there, incrementally. We can't jump to it all at once for the reasons cited by others.

If you want to see that world, be sure to support the Futurama movies, and pick up Stargate: The Ark of Truth, too. Right now, that's the most direct way to indicate interest in this.

Re:And the winner ...

[MightyMartian]

Well, after all, Apple is the Hypnotoad of the 21st century.

My review of Bender's Big Score

[Nova Express]

Can be found here [locusmag.com]. For those interested in such things

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

A minor correction:

[The_REAL_DZA]

"...The show's entire voice cast and most of its main writers have returned to help revive the series, which FOX cancelled in 2003.'"

Should have been "...The show's entire voice cast and most of its main writers have returned to help revive the series, which FOX stupidly cancelled in 2003.'" There, I fixed it for you.

Re:Better in half-hour installments

[bugg]

Nope, I loved it too.

I'm also a sucker for endings that pull on your heartstrings - and this movie ranked up there with Jurassic Bark for emotional response at the end.

I did apologize to those who watched it with me, however, as they weren't really futurama fans, and all of the in-jokes were a bit much for them. I found myself having to explain why santa was a robot who killed things, etc.

Does anyone know how strong the sales were? I'm trying to decide whether I should buy my own copy - I don't really ever buy DVDs, but I will to keep Futurama alive!