As much as I love Futurama, the new DVD movies always leave me thinking about what could have been. Not that there is anything wrong with them, just how much better it would be if the show had received a Family Guy like reprieve and went back to full series form. Alas, it wasn't meant to be, yet. I still hold out hope that if the DVDs do well enough, that door could open up again. Fry and the gang are aging remarkably well, after all.Enough about what could have been though, let's talk about what will be. That, of course, is The Beast With A Billion Backs. The next installment in the Futurama DVD line will be available at hundreds of fine retail establishments, and three shady ones, on June 24th. There's a planet-sized alien, a league of robots, and one of the Planet Express crew will head up a brand new religion. If that's not enough to capture your interest, have a look at the trailer after the jump and learn a wondrous new word. Gentacles.
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5-29-2008 @ 12:26PM
keithnl said...
I just about found Benders Big Score to be too much of a good thing. I couldn't help thinking I'd rather watch this play out over a couple of half hour episodes, rather than main lining the straight dope.
Anywho can't wait to check out the new one.
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5-29-2008 @ 12:37PM
Oreo said...
I'm one of the few that thought Bender's Big Score was bad Futurama.
However I enjoyed it more after listening to the commentary, it's even better than the movie.
New Futurama is always better than most everything else.
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5-29-2008 @ 11:50PM
Peter said...
I didn't think Bender's Big Score was funny enough either. Particularly since the time traveling messed with the continuity in The Luck of the Fryish. But the commentary was awesome. Love me some Futurama commentary. And Bender. I'm always up for more Bender.
5-29-2008 @ 12:38PM
Edd said...
Love this show! Fantastic to be getting new material. As long as they make them, I'll watch them and buy them.
Only South Park tops it for animated comedy, in my view, and that's only because I have 13 seasons to dip into, rather than 5/6.
Fox you r-tards!
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5-29-2008 @ 1:01PM
Elf said...
The problem with Bender's Big Score is that they had to format it perfectly so that the complex story could be broken up in to four separate free-standing episodes. The new DVD and the two scheduled to follow will likely suffer from similar pacing flaws.
However, I actually preferred BBS as a single feature-length movie precisely because of the complexity of the story, particularly with all of the forward and backward jumps through time. It would have been harder to follow the threads if I'd only been able to see one half episode per week for four weeks.
But more importantly, I'm looknig forward (hopefully) to another exciting episode of "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad."
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5-29-2008 @ 4:54PM
bd said...
They "always"? There has been one so far.
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