Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

MY AGE RATING: 15+ for sex, drugs/alcohol/smoking, language, violence. MY MPAAA RATING: TV-RFuturama will never be as good as The Simpsons were. It is still a good show. Some episodes are plain stupid, some are good, yes, it is a hit and miss. This, can be considered an "episode". It's not really a movie, doesn't feel like one.The story is that a group of scammer aliens take over the Planet Express, and use Bender to try to take over the world. Leela falls in love with a guy, who at the end, appears to be Fry. Fry has a tattoo on his butt, which is a code for time travel, which Bender uses to travel around. Its risqué, and- kinda stupid.Yes, some good nice laughs, like when the crew comes to the nudist beach, and the sign says, "You must be this naked to enter". "How more naked can you get?", says Fry. Lol.Summary: Some screwed up plot, but laughs save it from a bad rating.

Spoilers: I recently re-watched this movie during a re-watch of the entire series. This movie is simply a travesty. I would say since episode I there has never been a bigger disappointment in scifi. I remember when this came out Futurama had been of the air 4 years, fans like myself had rallied to get the show back on the air, and then yes finally here it was. Then I watched it, then I broke the DVD in half and burned it, which I would prefer be done to all copies of this movie.But why is this movie so horrible. It is just mind boggling stupid and insipid spewing vitriol all over the fans of the show and good writing in general. So put yourself in my place when first watch this, what do you want to see for a new Futurama? I'll tell you what I don't want to see is the characters I know and love just get S*%$ on relentlessly for 90 minutes. That is really all this movie is is just the main cast getting ripped off by "Scammer aliens" (they couldn't even give these characters a name, that is how lazy the writing is in this film). And none of this makes any sense. The movie's central plot revolves around mind-control, which is the ABSOLUTE worst plot device in existence. Know any good mind control stories? No because it is just an insipid device to have a character do something with no real motivation or true inner conflict. The scammer aliens themselves don't make any sense. They are just 3 people and yet they take over an entire planet? If I'm not mistaken there are at least 5 characters that could easily kill 3 measly aliens. I wouldn't mind if they made the scammer invincible somehow, like they regenerate or have some protective shield, but no, no thought went into making this part of the plot make any sense. Simply the scammer aliens are THE WORST CHARACTERS IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.I would rather watch a Joffrey from Game of Thrones TV show 24 hours a day then watch these horrible creatures on screen for 90 minutes. This movie is the equivalent of making Star Wars VII about Han losing the Millennium Falcon to that little laughing monster that Jabba has. Then somehow Chewie is enslaved and mind controlled and proceeds to kill Han viciously, melts C-3P0 alive, Luke is sold into slavery, and Liegha is forced to do pole dances at the cantina. And just image that like 90% of the movie is just Jabba's little creature laughing at the audience. That is what this movie is.The writers of this show thankfully managed to make some decent seasons after this horrible piece of trash. Scammer aliens can burn in hell forever.

Having enjoyed the series I wasn't so sure about watching the Futurama films as frequently film spin-offs from half our shows fail to maintain their stories for the longer time. I also feared from the title that this would be overly centred on Bender, although I like the character I found that with the exception of the excellent "Godfellas" many of the episodes were he took centre stage were among the weaker ones. Thankfully when I finally got around to watching it I was not disappointed and found it to be a great addition the the franchise and despite the title wasn't overly centred on Bender or any other character.The opening wasn't too promising when characters learn that they had been cancelled by the Box Corporation, thankfully that gag was soon over and they were off to the Nude Beach Planet to make a delivery and take advantage of fact that they could show more flesh now they are on DVD. Here they are approached by the Naked Scammers who flood the Planet Express crew with dodgy email scams which they fall and end up losing the business to the scammers. Once they own the company the discover that Fry has the secret of time travel tattooed to his backside and re-program Bender and send him back in time to steal the world's treasures. Once they have all they want they send him back on one final mission... to kill Fry in the past so nobody else can get the secret. Fry tries to save himself by also going back and end up with multiple copies of Fry and Bender living at various times.The film then follows Fry in both the 31st and 21st centuries, where there are lots of sun sub-plots involving Leela falling for the mysterious Lars, Hermes losing his head and his wife after a limboing accident and teaming up with Robot Santa and his friends to fight the Naked Scammers.All the main cast appear along with a good selection of secondary characters such as Zapp, Kif and everybody's favourite president Richard Milhous Nixon. Unlike other comedy shows that have feature length spin offs this didn't feel like an episode that had been stretched to fill the time nor did it feel like a few episodes tagged together. I suspect one needs to be familiar with the characters through watching the series as little time is wasted explaining who the characters are, for example if I hadn't seen the episode "Time Keeps on Slipping" I'd have been confused about the Harlem Globetrotters appearing as experts of temporal science.I would certainly recommend this to any fans of the series and for people who haven't seen the series watch that then watch this.

The TV series was brought to an end in 2003, and there were rumours it would return, and this straight-to-DVD film is a good indication of that, the film even begins with a joke about a network cancelling them, and then reinstating them. The story sees Hermes (Phil LaMarr) decapitated and having to live in a jar while his body is fixed. Fry (Bily West) jealous because Leela (Katey Sagal) is falling for head museum worker Lars Fillmore (also West). Prof. Fansworth (West again) has accidentally sold Planet Express to some greedy conning aliens, or Scammers, led by Nudar (David Herman) and they can detect information with their Sprungers, and from a tattoo of Bender (John Di Maggio) on Fry's ass, they find the code for a time sphere, capable of time travel and paradox fixing too. So with the help of the obedience virus downloaded into Bender, he constantly speaks this code and travels back to bring back every priceless object in past history. When the aliens decide to get rid of the code from Bender, they realise Fry must also be disposed, and to escape, Fry travels back to the day he was frozen, half an hour after, and again to eat some pizza (lol), and Bender is sent back to kill him. Bender appeared to have killed Fry, after 12 years of looking in the past (2000-2012), but the real Fry managed to get back, and everyone wonders what happened to the copy of Fry. In a series of flashbacks (continuing through the story), we find out Fry lived the life he could have had if he had not been frozen, where he decides to let Leela go, and he looks after a rare female toothed narwhal named Leelo. Meanwhile in the future, Leela is about to be married to Lars, but he cancels, just after Hermes copy body, with his present head is decapitated, the Prof. mentions all copies are doomed. The alien Scammers have grown so powerful with greed they are ready to take ownership of the world, and so everyone decides to fight back against the many solid gold Death Stars, and Bender saves the day by throwing the doomsday device into their ship. Oh, in the end, it turns out that Lars was the copy of Fry that was looking after Leeloo, and Bender didn't kill him, merely lost him his hair and deepened his voice, and he refroze himself to become the head museum guy Leela fell for. Also starring Billy West as Zoidberg, Prof. Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan and President Richard Nixon's Head, John Di Maggio as Barbados Slim and Robot Santa, Tress MacNeille as Linda, Maurice LaMarche as Kif Kroker and Morbo, Phil LaMarr as Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate, Lauren Tom as Amy Wong, Frank Welker as Nibbler, Coolio as Kwanzabot, Al Gore, Mark Hamill as Chanukah Zombie and Sarah Silverman as Michelle. It might be a little complicated with the time travelling aspect, but it is a good return for a much-loved Matt Groening cartoon which is just as good, if not better than The Simpsons. The ending by the way where space is tearing continues in the next film, Beast with a Billion Backs. The TV series was number 26 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Very good!