Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)

The Planet Express crew is on Mars where Amy's parents are paving over to build a new bigger casino. Eco-feministas are protesting. Fry is injured and starts hearing other people's thoughts. Leela saves a Martian leech that gets attached to her. Fry meets homeless Hutch who warns him about the Dark Ones. Leo next wants to destroy large parts of the galaxy to build his miniature golf course. Farnsworth is his rubber stamp but the crew finds primordial life on an asteroid. Leela joins the eco-feminists to sabotage the project. Zapp Brannigan is tasked with hunting down the eco-feminists. Fry learns the asteroid is an Encyclopods egg which is storage of endangered species and the mortal enemy of The Dark Ones.I like some parts but there is too much story. It's a bit too disjointed. It feels like the characters are going every which way. I usually like Futurama more when the crew is together. This is the fourth and last Futurama movie before it got renewed by Comedy Central. Sometimes the movie is shown in four half-hour episodes. The movie is already disjointed and watching the four parts separately doesn't help. I love Futurama and this is solid fan service. It's unlikely to be good for newbies.

I really like when cartoon TV Show's do movie length episodes. It's so interesting. Actually, the only other TV Show that I can think of that does it is Family Guy. Anyway, this movie is funny, just like most of the episodes from the series.In this movie, Fry is the last hope for the universe's survival. A dark force comes strolling in, planning on attacking and killing everyone. It's older than time itself, so it seems like a hard thing to beat. But some even more shocking things that happen. Leela is on the run from Zapp Brannigan. Bender is in love with a married fembot. And other crazy stuff happens. It's up to the Planet Express crew to save the universe. Will they stop the green monster?Overall, I give this movie an 8 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Awesome.

Ya ever notice how most people who take the effort to log are the ones who want to criticize or even hate on something?People who laughed wildly and were genuinely happy with the product seem much less likely to worry about it afterwards.For the record, my family and I have every Futurama episode and movie on DVD. We like them a lot. We've been looking forward to this movie a long time and in general weren't disappointed (it wasn't the best of the movies but that's just IMHO). These shows have NEVER been about internal consistency, btw.Bring back the freaking series. If I was Bill Gates I'd just write a check to bring it (and Firefly too, what the hey?) back in a heartbeat. Creating a pleasurable experience for people should count as a humanitarian act.If you want to hate on something, go watch The English Patient. Your reviews might help spare some innocent people in the future from being subjected to three hours of terminal boredom and depression.

Let's remember that, for some reason, the movie futuramas just aren't as good as the show. So keep those expectations realistic.That said, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the fourth (and last?) movie. The first one is unarguably the best, but this one is a close second in my opinion. I think one thing the movie really has going for it is how much better it is than the last one. My expectations were low...fearful, in fact. Probably two minutes into the movie I knew this one would be different, and it was. It felt more like futurama again. Of course, this movie has some flaws. Some plots are painfully undeveloped, and there seem to be many glossed over characters and situations. Still, on a joke by joke basis, it works. It still just makes me miss the show, but at least I'll look forward to watching this movie again.