i didnt know about this. just saw it on amazon.
i know some of you like futurama as much as i do.
wanted to make sure the rest of you knew about it too.

Futurama Movie




from the top review on amazon:
Yes! The Year 3000 is back!! This is all-new material, NOT RECYCLED or from 4 seasons offered in volumes 1-4 or Monster Fun. All new from the Simpson's creator Matt Groening and the Futurama team.

It's here the first of the 4 "NEW" FUTURAMA direct-to-DVD videos, 3 of which will be released throughout 2008. Following "BENDER'S BIG SCORE" will be, "INTO THE WILD GREEN YONDER" then, "BENDER'S GAME" and THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS." The features will be cut into an episode format to air eventually on Comedy Central, not Cartoon Network.

Each of these feature the brilliant original voice talent, from the short-lived fox series: John Di Maggio (as Bender and others), Dave Herman (as the Honorable Mayor C. Randall Poopenmayer and more ) Katey Sagal (Leela), Phil LaMarr (Hermes), Lauren Tom (Amy Wong), Billy West (Fry, Zoidberg, Farnsworth, an other Futurama, but known as Stimpy and from the Howard Stern Show, West does the best LARRY FINE in the business), old school veterans like Frank Welker (here for Nibbler but he's the original Fred Jones, if you saw Saturday morning, you can bet he was in it) and Maurice LaMarche (as Morbo, but LaMarche was on the original Transformers, amoung other projects) and Tress a.k.a. "Skinner's Mom" MacNeille (most recently played the "Spider-Pig" in Simpson's Movie). This time around Sarah Silverman is a guest along with others, like Star War's Mark Hamill.

sweetness. i loved this show and can't wait for it's return.

yea you and me both! :thumbsup
will it be on tv as new episodes? will it be on fox again?
or will it just be these movies cut into episodes for a while?

any idea?

i had thought these "movies" were being cut into episodes but who knows. i haven't been following it too closely.

the new eps are supposed to be on the cartoon network.

futurama is a great show, it cracks me up.

i love it. it's one of my all time fav's. can't wait for the new stuff. they've have plenty of time to build up some jokes. :)

of my favs, you know the kind you just love forever, i think futurama is the top!
(like simpsons, and family guy, and south park, and robot chicken...)

I'm a big fan of this show a well. I was super psyched to hear it was coming back. Can't wait to get this DVD!

:lol that show is so friggin awesome!

I heard that the episodes coming in the fall season 2008 on Comedy Central (not Cartoon Network, vix) were going to be the 4 movies chopped into 12 episodes. That's still possible, though, as I haven't heard of the Comedy Central deal falling through yet.

I have this movie on my Christmas list, so I should probably get it then.

There coming out with a Futurama Movie? OMG!! I love Futurama, I like the episodes with The What If Machine, very funny.

4 of them.

I like the one where Fry asks "What if life were more like a video game" and when Bender asks "What I were a Human". Cousin :nickel kinda reminds me of Bender.

i just recently saw that ep and i love the space invaders part...

down to one! i never could get the last one my brother always did it for me. :doh you have been defeated because you shouldn't have aimed where i was, but where i was going to be. :lol

I finally got around to watching this movie (I got it on Christmas). It's pretty good, and it has a lot of layers of jokes. I'll probably have to watch it a few times to get them all. They did try to jam too much into it. You'd think with four confirmed movies to space it out, they could avoid trying to jam in as many cameos as they could (I'm looking at you, Family Guy "movie"). Also, they left a lot of things presented by the movie itself unanswered, which I guess will come up in the next three.

This one is four episodes stuck together (the storyboard has act 1, 2 and 3 for four different sections). I don't really see how they could possibly segment this off into those episodes, though. The parts are so dependent on each other that it looks to be impossible to make discrete, coherent episodes from it.

Oh, yeah! I saw this movie. It gets so confusing with all of the time travel! I don't want to spoil anything though. :P

i was extremely confused the first time through and i can't see how this would make four coherent eps.

i almost bought the movie yesterday but i didn't feel like spending $20 for it.

i will have to get it soon. kinda forgot about it.
been watching lots of the comdey central marathons ths week!

Well, they refused to have "normalized" time travel in the series for this very reason. It's too hard to follow, and there are always threads that don't make sense or have to be forced into a set of rules governing them. That's why they didn't make time travel a staple of the show, rather an improbable occurrence that happened once (the other time that put Fry at his own freezing was actually just a travel between dimensions, not really time travel contained in one universe).

Also, I have serious gripes about the DVD "case" the movie comes in. It did not survive even the trip from Amazon, and it won't hold up to the test of time. Seriously, a little cardboard and plastic flap doesn't make any sense. They must have been trying to save money on the packaging.

yeah, i don't like the non-plastic cases.

and the whole going back in time in three or so versions to the cryo lab made it so confusing.

Guess the packaging got pretty messed up. It says right on there that they used that packaging to make it "carbon neutral" in no small part because of the involvement of Al Gore in the movie.

For those who don't know, the Kristen Gore who shows up regularly as a writer in the Futurama credits is his daughter, which is essentially why he has done the show so many times.

As for the movie, I loved it, but the movie was really a love letter to me, the obsessed fan who memorized massive amounts of dialogue and bought the Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection, featuring only episodes I already owned on DVD, just for the new commentary track on a single episode.

The time travel thing didn't bother me too much because they used the classic Futurama gag: When there's a giant hole in the plot, point it out yourself. That's why they called it "paradox free" time travel, with the universe itself solving all duplicate issues in the most violent way possible.

As for the transition to half hour episodes, I'm fairly sure they said that when they chopped up the movies, they would rewrite sections and add new scenes to make them more self-contained.

okay where are you people finding this movie!? i looked in many stores and no one has it! :(

amazon has it and i saw it at moviestop, but there's not many of those around.

yea, i was looking IN stores. is that how everyone is getting it then? online only?
not one brick store carrys it that i tried.

i don't know, i hate wal-mart so i'm not stepping foot in there unless i have to. did you check target or best buy? they usually have quite a few movies. in fact, i just checked, they have it at the best buys near me. go on their site and find your store to see if it's in stock.

yea i tried best buy and target as walk ins.
i knew about online statis checks, but didnt do it.
with lots of best buy stuff it doesnt matter because of the way they receive (batch receive). so it is logged as in stock but can remain in boxes or the back room for a couple days...
why i usually dont buy day one game releases from them unless it is a high profile game.

i will just grab it whenever i see it. no rush. i want the family guy star wars movies thing also!

thanks sonya sista!

that's weird that they haven't had it on the shelves. i'm sure they would have it if you asked while you were there. i was going to get it at moviestop (which is like gamestop, but with movies :P) but they only had it new, and i wasn't going to spend $25 for it. call me cheap, but that seems like a lot of money to me. i mean, blu-ray movies cost that much.

25 for one cartoon does sound expensive miss cheap. i agree... i might not buy it then.

a moviestop sounds cool. where is it down there? midlothian (sp)? broad st?

actually there's one on hull st. and one on midlothian now. there's only a few over the east coast. it's owned by the same people, i think i can even use my discount card there, but i'm not entirely sure since i usually forget to try.

this movie was brilliant, far better than the simpsons movie.
what speed internet do you have waxc? i could pm you if you want ;)

That's weird that you can't find it at Best Buy. You're checking the new release section AND the section where they'd keep the other Futurama season box sets? Because they should have it.

The key is to keep up on DVD release dates and hit Best Buy the day it comes out, or at least sometime that week before the weekend. That way you get it at a discount price. Heck, I bought the whole Rambo trilogy a couple days ago for $15 thanks to that.

stu, at home it is dial up. and a slow one at that.

marty rain, yea best buy totally didnt have it! i am going today to get the star wars Family Guy!!!!! and will look again!

"I am a tool. Stewie is better than me at everything, including arts and crafts and guitar..." OMG that line on family guy last night had melaughing for several minutes. then when i woke up i laughed more, and just driving to school i was cracking up everytime i said it! (a robot brian says it in the episode where they go to san fran to see stewies future self).

the star wars thing was just ok for me, i'm not really into star wars. i still do want to get futurama though.

you saw it!?
was it ever on tv before i have been wondering?

i always liked star wars. saw it in the theatre in 77 and it really grabbed me. i enjoyed all 6 movies unlike lots of people my age.
plus i love me the family guy!

i think it was the first episode of the season or something. maybe i'm thinking of something else. was chris supposed to be luke, peter/han solo, stewie/darth vader?

yea. but it was longer than 30 minutes.... i hope!

i think it was an hour. maybe longer, but at least an hour.

48 minutes!
i bought the super deluxe mega pack of the blue harvest family guy dvd yesterday.
i LOVED it! i love family guy and always like star wars so i was just in heaven!
i laughed so many times! :smirk

i am glad i never saw it on tv. that worked out well seeing it for the first time with all of the curse words intact (a lot of them too!)

well worth 29.99!