# Hey, Futurama Fans! Check this out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767 "2016-12-28T12:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/1 "2016-12-28T12:31:30Z")
[Fan-O-Rama: A Futurama Fan Film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-1RMKdWz8M) is a half-hour live-action Futurama film! It totally fucking rocks! Very high production values, decent cast, and IMO the writing is exactly on par with the actual show! Huge props to everyone for pulling this off, but especially to Director Dan Lanigan! I’m gonna go watch it again! ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/2 "2016-12-28T13:33:04Z")
I’m going to make my _own_ Futurama fan film! With _Blackjack_! And _Hookers_! In fact, _FORGET_ the Futurama fan film! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/3 "2016-12-28T14:00:41Z")
The art of comic timing seems to be lost forever. Oh well. It was a brave effort. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/4 "2016-12-28T14:13:41Z")
Okay, after two viewings, I have to give this a solid B. I’d go 6/10 stars on IMDB. The look of the production is very good, faithful to the cartoon in a lot of ways. Some of the cast is good, some is mediocre. I thought Fry’s smirk was a bit too omnipresent, but I thought he was also on-target. I thought Leela’s voice was occasionally good but the actress didn’t have the right look. Professor was great; Hermes was great; Amy was so-so. Zoidberg looked okay but sounded terrible. Bender looked good but didn’t sound like Bender. Zap Branigan made a good effort but didn’t have the over-the-top-Kirk voice down at all; he did have the obliviousness to the fact that he was a man in a skirt down pretty well tho. Hypno-Toad sucked: the pupils in the eyes were to small and the loud industrial droning noise was absent. The Zod beer commercial was awesome. The nuclear cargo and the giraffe were awesome. Rich Little as Nixon was great and that whole sequence looked great. The CGI overall was good considering the budget. I guess that’s the biggest consideration: this as a very low budget fan film. Prolly high budget for a fan film, but very low budget by any other standard, and I have to give props for doing so well with so little. Oh, and the actual “episode” is only about 15 minutes long. Hypno-Toad takes up like the last 7 minutes after the credits but without the droning noise is no fun at all. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/5 "2016-12-28T15:17:32Z")
Buncha meat-bags. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/6 "2016-12-28T18:15:39Z")
So close but the look and timing of the characters were off. I did like a lot of the little stuff that they put into the scenes though, funny little things to pay attention to along the way. And of course, All Hail Hypno Toad. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/7 "2016-12-29T01:58:06Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I thought Leela’s voice was occasionally good but the actress didn’t have the right look. Forget the voice and the look, the _characterization_ was completely off! She was the one performer who made me think, “Uhhh, obviously this person didn’t watch a _single_ episode of the show to prepare for the role!” But, Nixon! Was that really Rich Little? The credits say it was Rich Little. How did a low budget fan film score Rich Little!?!?!? Way to go, fan film guys! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/8 "2016-12-29T02:12:27Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Forget the voice and the look, the _characterization_ was completely off! She was the one performer who made me think, “Uhhh, obviously this person didn’t watch a _single_ episode of the show to prepare for the role!” I agree she was mostly off. > [@bienville](#): > > But, Nixon! Was that really Rich Little? The credits say it was Rich Little. How did a low budget fan film score Rich Little!?!?!? Way to go, fan film guys! Aye; that was really him. [His IMDB page lists the film in his credits](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514648/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1). ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/9 "2016-12-29T02:17:14Z")
I had trouble trying to follow the CCs. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/10 "2016-12-29T08:14:23Z")
Visually it’s a pretty amazing achievement, but I’ll agree that the timing is off and a lot of the acting falls flat. I guess [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ) would about sum up my overall appraisal of it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/11 "2016-12-29T11:50:36Z")
Yeah, I wasn’t able to finish it. It just seemed a little bit off in every way, so all the little bits added up to a big bit off. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/12 "2016-12-31T18:00:15Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Forget the voice and the look, the _characterization_ was completely off! She was the one performer who made me think, “Uhhh, obviously this person didn’t watch a _single_ episode of the show to prepare for the role!” I admit, the Leela character completely missed the mark, personality-wise, but the makeup really made it clear how creepy and unsettling a giant-eyed cyclops would be, It would definitely take some getting used to. The Hermes character seemed too young, and the voices were obviously off, but i could see this getting time as a series. Comedy Central has put far lamer stuff on the air. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/13 "2017-01-01T03:11:49Z")
A for effort. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/14 "2017-01-01T14:43:14Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > A for effort. I agree. The look and feel were great. The acting and writing were mixed. I was shocked to see that was really Rich Little when the credits rolled. I thought it looked like him but didn’t think it could really be him. Was there really ten minutes of hypno toad at the end or did I miss something by stopping early? ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/15 "2017-01-02T15:43:25Z")
I’m verrry sloowly downloading this, and I’m going to enjoy it, because I miss _Futurama_ so much. No matter how imperfect it may be, I’m glad they made an effort. I’m just posting to share my wish with the SDMB – that some group with really good voice mimicry would redub A Prisoner of Brenda – actually giving the characters the voices their bodies should have, while mimicking the attributes of the swapped mind. It should have been easy to do when first made, there’s some overlap in voice actors. But I guess Comedy Central was busy keeping the show as dumbed down as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/16 "2017-01-06T23:46:56Z")
Hmm. I wanted to like it. Visually it was excellent. I’d give it a solid A. The acting was not terrible. Some performers were better than others, but overall a respectable B-. The script, however, was awful. It missed on every level. Not remotely funny. I just couldn’t finish it. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-futurama-fans-check-this-out/775767/17 "2017-01-06T23:48:42Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Hmm. I wanted to like it. > > Visually it was excellent. I’d give it a solid A. The acting was not terrible. Some performers were better than others, but overall a respectable B-. The script, however, was awful. It missed on every level. Not remotely funny. I just couldn’t finish it. Yeah, that’s about right. Too bad they couldn’t get some of the actual \*Futurama \*writers to help out or something.