Futurama The Beast With a Billion Backs [SPOILERS]
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I don't really get it either. It was classic Futurama. The movie was loaded with funny, quotable lines.
Maybe more people will enjoy it when it's broken down into episodes.
I preferred the first movie. It seemed more epic. I thought Yivo was lame-o.
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The movie ok. It was good and funny.... up until the joke of Yivo taking everybody out on a date and all the double-jokes about how they had to break up and commitment and all the "real dating" references... that was all incredibly lame and made no damn sense. Everybody on earth became a moron and there was no story reason why, no tentacle in their neck or anything. Basically, from the point where we found out they were "genticles" to the end, all sucked. Though Bender ruining it for everyone was funny and in character. If it was revealed Yivo had some sort of mind-control or super pheromones or something that at least would make sense, but there was no such thing.
Bender's Big Score was also sort of a disappointment, as was this one... only because the show was so damn good.
Bender's Big Score was also sort of a disappointment, as was this one... only because the show was so damn good.
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I think there's truth to this. It really doesn't fit in the format, and the writers have to struggle with coming up plot for a full 2 hours.
I think the problem is more coming up with a 88 minute story, that can be cut in to 4 22 minute episodes, and it make sense as a single episode and as a part of the whole.
But ugly naked spammers from the first movie wasn't? Right.....
And good god the most epic tentacle rape ever, did someone smoke some weird shit and spend the night watching bad hentai before sitting down to write this?
I'm impressed that they thought of something Farscape didn't. Or maybe I've forgotten the tentacle-rape episode of Farscape.
I bet Lexx did. 
Better than Big Score, or at least funnier. I was really disappointed by the humor in BBS but this delivered the goods. I kind of liked the moment where the koala passes harmlessly through the rift and out the window. Some funny callbacks as well such as Bender's quarter on a string.
Weird seeing Leela become the Family Guy's Meg for an episode but maybe the writers were venting a little after all the Leela spurnings in the series proper. And Bender was at his most extreme of Bender Bastardliness, he's not usually quite so unrepentently cruel.
The character model for Fry's girlfriend looked really familiar, didn't he see someone like that in the series?
Oh and the credits were awesome with little pictures of all the characters the cast play. They should do that on all shows.
Weird seeing Leela become the Family Guy's Meg for an episode but maybe the writers were venting a little after all the Leela spurnings in the series proper. And Bender was at his most extreme of Bender Bastardliness, he's not usually quite so unrepentently cruel.
The character model for Fry's girlfriend looked really familiar, didn't he see someone like that in the series?
Oh and the credits were awesome with little pictures of all the characters the cast play. They should do that on all shows.
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Colleen's character model was new as far as I know. Perhaps you are mistaking her for Fry's ex, Michelle. The art style doesn't lend itself well to ordinary looking young women. They tend to come out looking similar.
I don't get the reference to Leela being like Meg. Leela was removed from everybody else for most of the story by her own actions, while everybody else wanted her to join them. Meg is vindictively isolated by everybody else. The two aren't remotely similar.
I don't get the reference to Leela being like Meg. Leela was removed from everybody else for most of the story by her own actions, while everybody else wanted her to join them. Meg is vindictively isolated by everybody else. The two aren't remotely similar.
^^ She didn't have anyone in paradise, the two guys who normally obsessed with her, Fry and Zapp, didn't have any problem without her and there just weren't many "Leela moments".
I'm starting to get sick of seeing Leela and Fry date everyone else but each other. I thought the series finale ended beautifully and was eager to see the two finally together.
maybe that's what the movies are building towards...
maybe that's what the movies are building towards...
My favorite Leela moment here -- and one of my favorites in the whole movie, which didn't thrill me overall -- was early in part 3, where Fry was trying to explain his love for the tentacle, and Leela was sounding very reasonable and patient and understanding while targeting his forehead with one gun after another.
Ah yeah, that was indeed a good Leela moment.
They are, the writers even admitted they had to redo a little something for the movies.
^What do you mean?
David X. Cohen commented that they had ended "Into the Wild Green Yonder" on a sweet moment which would be a suitably good ending for Futurama if it were to never return. Fry and Leela getting together at last would be the most obvious way to read that, but I've heard any specifics.
David X. Cohen commented that they had ended "Into the Wild Green Yonder" on a sweet moment which would be a suitably good ending for Futurama if it were to never return. Fry and Leela getting together at last would be the most obvious way to read that, but I've heard any specifics.
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