Customer Reviews

Futurama Volumes 1-4

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I saw on the discussion boards, people were wondering whether the volume 1-4 set was different from buying the seasons 1 through 4 packages separately. I just received my 1-4 set and I can say for sure it is exactly the same as buying separately. This is not one boxed set, it is the 4 individual volumes shrinkwrapped together. This is not a bad thing! This is a whole lot of goodness! But if it's cheaper to buy them separately (and it is right now, as I write this), due to the weird fluctuations in the prices caused by sunspots, astrological alignments and black helicopters no doubt, the feel free to buy separately, you won't miss out on anything.

Another question plaguing the minds of today's young people: How come IMDB.com, epguides.com and GotFuturama.com (among others) say there are 5 seasons, but this set is four "volumes"? I dunno, but I can now say for sure, the 4 volumes contain ALL the episodes including "season 5", all 72 of 'em, plus a lot of extra goodies like commentary tracks. If you were holding back, I say go ahead and dive in, you have nothing to fear but cramps in your smile muscles and ribs from prolonged laughing.

I thought it was illegal to be that funny on TV.

This is not a review, per se, though I highly recommend the set. Rather, I just wanted to point out that you get 72 episodes (with a total of 74 commentaries!), not just 61, as amazon incorrectly states above. [Note: amazon has subsequently corrected their listing.]

This is truly an amazing show. The writing is perfect full of laughs, pop culture references, and even references to little known science fiction show and books. The characters are perfect, bender being the best. The romance between fry and Leela is heartbreaking. The show also looks amazing seemlessly blending in 3d animation with 2d for spectacular effects. But enough about the show.
Aside from the show the special features on these sets are great. The deleted seens are great, the 3 and 4 sets have how to draw segments, but the commentaries are reason alone to buy this set. Even if you have seen every single episode i would recommend this set for the commentaries alone. David Cohen is a lovable geek, Billy West (voice of Fry, Zoidberg and the Proffesor) and John Dimaggio (voice of Bender) are hilarious and so is the rest of the cast.
So in short BUY THESE DVDS

Futurama is one of my favorite shows of all time. I even go as far as to say that I like it better than The Simpsons or Family Guy. It's basically of a NYC pizza delivery boy named Philip J. Fry that gets frozen on the Midnight of December 31st 1999, and is revived in the year 3000. He meets Professor Hubert Fransworth, who turns out to be Fry's distant nephew, Leela, a one-eyed mutant who Fry develops a crush on, Bender, a foul-mouthed robot who becomes Fry's best friend, Amy, a self absorbed, rich brat, who ethnically is Chinese, but was born on Mars, Dr. John Zoidberg, a lobster like alien, and Hermes Conrad, a Jamaican Accountant. All of them work at Planet express, and recruit Phil as the delivery boy. Many of the situations involve spaceships, aliens, flying cars, mutants and robots, which are many of the things that people imagine the future will most likely have, and the plots are absolutely hilarious, especially when Bender (best character in the show) is involved. I always end up laughing extremely hard. It's also fun to watch how Matt Groening depicts the future in NY (which is called New New York) in a satirical way. So Overall this show rocks. 5+ Stars

Futurama was a superbly written show that suffered GREATLY at the hands of Fox's executives placing them in a terrible time slot - 7pm Sunday, I believe. I can remember one season in particular where Futurama was constantly pre-empted for football on the East Coast, meaning viewers in this time zone got to see a grand total of about four episodes that year. I believe this this cartoon would have thrived in a later slot, but I guess execs don't see things the way that a fan would.

Bafflingly enough, other Fox cartoons such as "Family Guy", which has been resurrected after multiple cancellations and "King of the Hill" which got relentless promotion, the dark horse "Futurama" received neither of those blessings. Can you say 'sabotage?' That's okay, pronounciation doesn't count.

I'm off my soapbox...for now.

Fortunately, for fans, this show managed to hang on for four laugh-packed seasons and surprisingly enough it has also managed to have all episodes released on DVD. Futurama maintained consistently funny writing, original characters and plotlines and may actually portray a fairly realistic vision of the future - where crack is sold in vending machines and advertisements are broadcast within your dreams.

Your main characters are all pitiful in their own way, but very likable. There is Fry, who was cryogenically frozen for 1000 years and reawakened in a whole new civilization rife with aliens, robots and heads kept alive in jars. Leela is an "orphaned" cyclops who in early episodes is basically on a quest to find her family and later on seems to be on a quest to find a man (other than Fry, who adores her). And of course, you have Bender - an alcoholic, cigar-smoking, foul-mouthed robot, who probably spouts some of the funniest lines in the show.

If you enjoy originality and haven't already purchased any of the seasons of Futurama on DVD, then this box set is for you. Or perhaps, like myself, you've lost some of your DVD collection, including your favorite animated shows, due to a messy divorce - plunk down the money and buy this set now. And while you're at it, shoot off an e-mail to Fox and tell them to BRING BACK FUTURAMA - NOW!

If you're at all a fan of futurama, the 4 box sex is a must own.
I was skeptical at first, since it is a kind of expensive set, as of now i've only made it through the first two seasons (been watching an episode or two most nights before goin to bed), and i gotta say, this is one of the most clever cartoons ever made.
forget the price, it's well worth it. buy the set. give the guys who made it some money, because they deserve it.

Right off the bat, I want to mention that Futurama often runs on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, so you can catch a lot of episodes there. But if you want to watch the entire series from start to finish and get some of the commentary, I highly recommend picking up all four sets, especially since prices have started to come down on each of the 4 seasons.

I personally think Futurama is funnier than the Simpsons or at least as funny as the Simpsons were in their prime. The problem for Futurama is that many of its jokes are random and are infused with a basic layer of science/math humor, which is not altogether surprising given its science fiction setting. Like the initial run of Family Guy, I think viewers did not buy into the randomness and certain inside-joke feel of Futurama. But the more you watch and pay attention to the episodes, the better you'll pick up on the nuances.

In any case, the characters are flat out ridiculous and hilarious, Bender and Professor Farnsworth being my personal favorites. I suspect that each character represents a portion of Matt Groening's own personality as they are all wildly different from each other. Fry's basically your Homer-type for Futurama but I think Bender steals every episode with his wise-cracking.

Again, if you don't pay attention, you might miss the nuances behind each joke. A lot of things might not even make sense, so I definitely think this series is not for everyone. But if you like a little sci-fi humor born out of the same mold as the Simpsons, with some of the same randomness inherent to Family Guy, then check this out. Whenever I'm having one of those bad or boring days, popping in Futurama and watching a few episodes quickly fixes the problem.

This Tv serie is amazing... i cant believe FOX cancel it.

for all the Latin customers that want to buy this package, i give you some information that is not included here, or in the box.
the audio language of this serie is in Spanish-Mexico (the one used by the show in all Latinamerica), and not Spanish-Spain,

Para los que hablen espa?ol, les hago una aclaracion, que a mi me costo conseguir... ya que no viene especificado ni siquiera en el paquete, y tuve que arriesgarme a que no sea asi, el audio en espa?ol de estos dvd's estan en espa?ol Mexicano, el que usa la serie en toda america latina, y no Espa?ol de Espa?a (por suerte, jeje). Asi que a comprar tranquilos.. y ojala que vuelva la serie algun dia.

BRING BACK FUTURAMA! =)

These are the best looking dvds I have ever seen. I cannot get over how beautiful this show looks. Everything is clean, sharp, and bright. Not only that, but it is a supremely, fantastic visual feast! The art direction is nonpareil...you could spend gobs of time pausing to look at everything the animators fit into so many frames. Futurama is also very cleverly written and performed. It works on so many levels. And if the show quality wasn't enough to warrant must-buy status, these sets are LOADED with goodies. The packaging is novel too, as the slim cases the dvds come in have illustrations on both the outside and inside. Great!

I loved Futurama while Fox aired it (whenever it wasn't pre-empted by football). What you get in this set is:

- all the episodes (even the ones that got pre-empted)
- the best commentaries ever. I have listened to a lot of commentaries, and they usually ramble off into sex, politics, or quaint parenting stories about what the director's 6-year-old daughter did when she saw the rape scene. The Futurama commentaries stay largely on-point, about where some bit of comedy originated, or what the real science is behind something in the episode, etc. As a taste, they chose Omicron Perseii because it was 1,000 light years from here, and they needed the people there to be receiving TV transmissions from Earth that were 1,000 years old. Even after I saw all the episodes, I still enjoyed re-watching some just for the commentaries.

The extra features are numerous and fun, the disc menus are a little whacky. They aren't a problem, I'd say they are an 8 out of ten.

Bottom line: If you liked the show on TV, you will LOVE the DVDs.