The fourth and (hopefully not) final Futurama Movie is available in the US today! WOOooo!
The plot is based on Environmentalism and Miniature Golf, with a touch of Feminism thrown in for good measure. Their are lots of classic “Futurama” moments, in-jokes, and running gags to keep you occupied while you watch the story unfold.
Out of the four movies, I’d rate this as number 2. I think it has the closest “feel” to the original series of all four movies.
Free Shovels!
If this is number 2, where do the rest fall? While I haven’t seen Green Yonder yet, I’d rate them like this…
My ranking is close to yours…
… Not that I didn’t like BwaBB, I just liked the others more.
Mine is still on order–no spoilers, please!
I’m still not done watching it, but this one may be my favorite.
I didn’t find it very funny. There was too much that was just in there for the sake of the story. The bender sub story wasn’t funny at all. Too much stuff involving cheating death. The poker was stupid. Why does Fry need to know bender’s hand in order to decide whether to call preflop with aces?
Written by Ken Keeler (after whom apparently everything in the universe is named) and David X. Cohen
Special appearances by Snoop Dogg, Penn Gillette, Phil Hendrie, and a special musical performance by Seth McFarlane
This one was probably my second favorite Futurama movie after Bender’s Big Score. Some parts of the plot (Bender’s affair with the Donbot’s wife, and maybe a few others) seemed like obvious padding to have a self-contained episode plotline for each “episode” when it becomes episodes, but the main plot was very clever, and even the message was done in a non-heavy-handed way. And the ending, without giving anything away, was a very clever way of commenting on the “is this the end…again?” thing.
Maybe I’m still buzzing, but I thought this was terrific and the best of the four. The last half of so was excellent- I laughed very hard at “World Class A-Hole” and there was a long string of good jokes after that. Loved the ending.
My ranking would go like this:
Into the Wild Green Yonder
Beast with a Billion Backs
Bender’s Game
Bender’s Big Score
I’m surprised by Seth MacFarlane’s involvement, I thought Groening hated him.
I guess my hopes were too high for this. I was expecting it to be heavier on the Fry/Leela storyline.
A lot of the humor worked, but unfortunately, a lot of it didn’t work, and a failed joke is worse than an absent joke. Some of the stuff with Snoop Dogg was borderline cringeworthy (“if it would pizzle the cizzle,” and “throw your hands in the air!” “should we wave them like we just don’t care?” come on guys. You’re more original than that.)
As of now, I would rank them like this:
HOWEVER . . . I didn’t like Bender’s Big Score the first time I saw it, and absolutely fell in love with it on subsequent viewings. I’m going to watch this again sometime in the next couple days and it won’t surprise me if my feelings change.
As always, the best line went to Zapp Brannigan.
Zapp: “How many men did we lose?”
Kiff: “All of them”
Zapp: “Well at least they won’t have to mourn each other”
Yeah, that definitely didn’t work for me either.
Personally, I thought it was the best of the four. My favorite bit has to be when the Professor is proud of his 301-inch TV, until suddenly, upon hearing of a 302-incher, decides it’s junk and destroys it. And then a succession of inch-larger TV sets appear throughout the rest of the movie.
The blonde and the black woman with the double ponytail were driving me nuts until I remembered they were Slurms Mackenzie’s party girls.
This is going to be a close tie for my favorite, along with Bender’s Game. I’ll have to wait a few days and watch it again to see how it holds up.
I’m sad this was the last of the scheduled 4 movies though. I still want more 
Not so much, says Groening in this interview that, by some weird coincidence, is running just after the release of the movie. Contains some interesting non-Futurama stuff, too.
Totally horrible and a disappointment. Did the Fanny/Poker subplot serve ANY purpose? It was also cheap to go back to the Delta Wave excuse yet AGAIN…
It’s especially sad when you consider that right now there’s nothing else even in PRE-production, so this might be the very final Futurama episode.
I would rank them:
Bender’s Game
Beast With a Billion Backs
Bender’s Big Score
Into the Wild Green Yonder. It needed a B title…
I did not know there were movies.
Not that I’m cheap (well, maybe a little), can I find them online, like Hulu or something?
I rented them. Apart from Big Score which I watched 4 times in as many days (a total anomaly for me), and Beast which I watched like one and a half times, I didn’t re-watch Bender’s Game, and I’ll probably only watch Yonder one more time before I return it. There are too many movies to watch, games to play, and books to read in the world for me to keep revisiting the same ones over and over, and I don’t have that need to see a possession sitting on my shelf like a lot of people do. I haven’t bought a DVD that I can recall in about 7 or 8 years-- though I amassed a fairly huge collection of them in the couple years before that, which is how I learned the lesson I just shared with you.
Got it yesterday, watched it today.
Good, but a plot that was all over the place.
Lots of open plot threads, if they wanna try for more DVDs.
Overall, A-.