Product Details

• Actors: Futurama: Bender's Game, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, Futurama - Bender's Big Score, Futurama - Into the Wild Green Yonder
• Format: NTSC
• Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001M5U7ZU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,255 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Futurama Movies Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good effort by the Futurama crew, but the slower, more grandiose plots take some getting used to, April 18, 2009

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speedracer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Futurama Movies Collection (DVD)

When Fox commissioned a new series of Futurama episodes after Futurama's initial cancellation, it was decided that four feature-length episodes would be produced, and this is the result. In general, the plots are slower to develop and more sweeping in scope than the plot of a typical Futurama episode.

In Bender's Big Score, nudist alien scammers use a time code tattooed on Fry's buttocks to go back in time, steal all of Earth's treasures from the past and rule the world. Meanwhile, Leela meets the man of her dreams, and a frustrated Fry wonders if his life would have been better off back in the 21st century.

In The Beast With A Billion Backs, a tentacled, amorous monster from another realm invades the universe and promises the lovelorn, heartbroken citizens of the universe (including our heroes at Planet Express) a life in paradise.

In Bender's Game, the Planet Express crew seek to uncover the mysteries behind the ruthless Mom's dark matter mine, but Bender's overactive imagination catapults everyone into an alternate D&D-themed medieval universe.

In Into The Wild Green Yonder, Leela becomes an eco-terrorist outlaw when she seeks to save a small planet from being destroyed by Leo Wong's entertainment empire. Our heroes end up pitted against each other when Fry lears that the planet is a key element in a cosmic struggle for the fate of all biological life in the universe.

It is clear that the Futurama crew conceived of these movies as epic adventures instead of merely extended-length episodes. The animation and score are certainly up to snuff; scenes from the Futurama universe(s) are rendered in stunning detail, and the music enhances the mood of the movies throughout.

As mentioned above, the plots are slower to develop than in a 22-minute episode. On one hand, the storylines are intriguing, infused with Futurama's brand of subtle satire and develop the main characters in clever ways. On the other hand, the moods throughout the movies undergo slow, seismic shifts, and as a result viewers who are accustomed to Futurama's typical joke-a-second pace may find portions of each movie tense or tedious.

Overall, the movies have a different flavor from the episodes of the original series, and they don't quite reach the heights of Futurama's finest episodes, but they're all entertaining in their own ways. Devoted Futurama fans especially should consider the set of movies a mandatory purchase; Futurama's return to the airwaves could very well be contingent upon the sales of the movies, and the movies show that the series still has quite a bit to offer.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Collection" is simply 4 individual DVDs sold together, April 20, 2009

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Dogbert - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Futurama Movies Collection (DVD)

Just a warning to those who make the assumption that the "Futurama Movies Collection" is a boxed collection of the four Futurama movies. In fact the collection is simply four individual DVDs within their individual cases that are sold together by Amazon as a single package. It is no different from purchasing them separately.

However, please note that there is a price advantage. At the time of writing (April 2009), the collection costs $72, while purchasing them individually would cost $90.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, February 8, 2011

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PlacidDark - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Futurama Movies Collection (DVD)

I love all 4 of these movies! I had watched them already before hand... and well I decided I needed to own them cause they are really funny!

If you loved the Show you will like the movies :)

As for seller side, the movie cases and Discs were in great shape and was shipped very nice, thank ya!