Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)

Dark forces older than time itself are on the attack, hell-bent on stopping the dawn of a wondrous new green age. Don't you hate when that happens? Even more shocking: Bender's in love with... See full summary »

Director:

Peter Avanzino

Writers:

Matt Groening (created by), Matt Groening (developed by),

Stars:

Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Billy West	...	Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert Farnsworth / Dr. Zoidberg / Leo Wong / Poker Sign-Up Clerk / Leo's Caddy / President Richard Nixon / Miniture Gold Construction Worker / Zapp Brannigan / The Dark One's Psychic Voice / Antonin Scalia's Head / Madfellow / Striped Biologist Taunter (voice)
Katey Sagal	...	Turanga Leela (voice)
John DiMaggio	...	Bender / Joey Mousepad / Elzar / Sal (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Fanny / Michael's Wife / Boobs Vanderbilt / Dixie / Linda / Petunia / Ruth Ginsberg's Head / Mom (voice)
Maurice LaMarche	...	Donbot / Clamps / Fanny's Announcer / Tex Connecticut / Lrrr / Lrrr's Father / Headless Body of Agnew / Morbo / Kif Kroker / Narrator / Abe Lincoln / Calculon (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Hermes Conrad / Magna-Phallix Commercial Voice-Over / Nixon's Bodyguard / Thomas / The Dark One / Preacherbot (voice)
Lauren Tom	...	Amy Wong / Inez Wong / Trixie (voice)
David Herman	...	The Number 9 Man / Scruffy / Michael / Neputnian (voice)
Dawnn Lewis	...	LaBarbara Conrad / Womens' Prison Warden (voice)
Snoop Dogg	...	Snoop Dogg (voice)
Phil Hendrie	...	Frida Waterfall / Hutch Waterfall / The Encyclopod (voice)
Seth MacFarlane	...	Mars Vegas Singer (singing voice)
Penn Jillette	...	Penn Jillette (voice) (as Penn & Teller)
Teller	...	Teller (as Penn & Teller) (credit only)

Storyline

Dark forces older than time itself are on the attack, hell-bent on stopping the dawn of a wondrous new green age. Don't you hate when that happens? Even more shocking: Bender's in love with a married fembot, and Leela's on the run from the law - Zapp Brannigan's law! Fry is the last hope of the universe, recruited for an ultra-top-secret mission. Could this be the end of the Planet Express crew forever? Say it ain't so, meatbag!

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Plot Keywords:

vegas | disembodied head | spacecraft | technology | scientist | 

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Taglines:

All the other galaxies will be green with envy!

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 February 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Futurama - En el viejo y salvaje oeste

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Fox Television, Curiosity Company, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Planet Express ship is powered by Whale Oil. In Futurama continuity, all spaceships had been powered by dark matter, until the characters rendered all dark matter in the universe in Futurama: Bender's Game (2008). They did so upon realizing that dark matter was extracted in a cruel manner from living creatures.

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Goofs

(at around 1h 13 mins) Professor Farnsworth takes a five dollar bill out of his pocket, but when the camera zooms in on the bill it's being held by Hermes Conrad. When the camera zooms out again, it is back to being in Professor Farnsworth's hand.

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Quotes

Bender: [First lines] Mars Vegas, the eternal city.
Leo Wong: [Leo Wong pushes a TNT plunger that destroys the entire city] Two, one, zero!
Bender: Rest in hell, Crapville!

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Connections

Referenced in Futurama: Proposition Infinity (2010)

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Soundtracks

That Was Then (And This is Too)
Written by Ken Keeler
Performed by Seth MacFarlane

User Reviews

A nod to an imperfect yet dear friend.

I agree the 2nd movie was the best of the 4.

I will always love and hold dear Futurama, certain episodes stand out, the romantic sentimental, never to forget Frys dog, or the holophone episode, or the message Fry wrote in space. The comedic lover never to forget Zoidbergs attempt to win a mate, the Whatif machine, or anything Bender has ever done. Oh, and Zap of course, (moreso than Kif).

The episodes that appeal the least to me are the lengthy plot related Nibbler time twisting episodes, and the other overly story arced episodes that introduce new characters too often, which is the category in which I would place these movies.

I have to say that the Wong family has always been consistently boring material for me, and I know, others too.

I guess 90 minutes has that problem, in that there is a necessity to create a drama rather than a subsection of throwaway laughs and The Simpsons movie suffered from a similar fault. I believe it could have been done though. It's fair to say that South Park pulled it off better than most with their Bigger Longer movie.

It's sad to see the gang go. Regardless of speculation, it will be years, if at all, before they re-emerge, and although these 4 episodes were less than perfect, each and every outing was punctuated with many smirk worthy hits, if not laugh out loud moments, and anything that can keep you smiling and wanting more is worth archiving on the good shelf in my opinion, and I will revisit not only classic episodes but these movies again and again over the years ahead.

The idealist in me looks forward to a day that the writers get off the phone and yell, 'we've been unaxed!', cause although movies are eager berries to pick, they often lack the exhilarating hit, the condensed juice of a good 22 minutes of laughter, packaged in the format we have trained our brains to consume so well.

What say Fox, these guys deserve a call for their efforts. Agreed?