FUTURAMA: INTO THE WILD GREEN YONDER (Fox, 2009) D: Peter Avanzino, w / Billy West, Katey Sagal. Rating: NNN DVD package: NNN Rating: NNN
A double tragedy: this is the last Futurama movie and it isn’t very good.
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Some of the voices in the jokey group commentary gripe about the writers’ strike that hit during production. Or you can blame the pressure of producing four full-length features in two years. Either way, Into The Wild Green Yonder fails to live up to the standard of earlier entries like The Beast With A Billion Backs.
It’s still funny, but short on bizarre plot turns and inventive gags.
Amy’s dad is destroying the galaxy to build a giant miniature golf course. Leela joins the eco-feministas. Fry accidentally learns to read minds and infiltrates the baddies. Penn and Teller show up. Snoop Dogg plays a Supreme Court judge. Bender has a robot romance, and Zoidberg, Dr. Farnsworth and the rest don’t do much.
As usual, the Futurama crew is generous with the extras, delivering 11 featurettes in all, including a home movie with creator Matt Groening and developer David X. Cohen in zero gravity.
EXTRAS Group commentary, making-of docs and comic shorts. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish Portuguese, Chinese subtitles.
