Trailer For The Futurama 'Movie'
Bender and friends return
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As you're likely aware – or if you're not you're about to be very excited – Futurama, Matt Groening's unjustly cancelled follow up to The Simpsons, is to return to screens. Groening and his crew are producing three feature length episodes which will be released on DVD, the first out by the end of the year, and then cut up into episode length for TV broadcast. You can see the trailer for the first installment, Benders Big Score!, either below or here.
Benders Big Score is set at Xmas (as Christmas has officially been abbreviated to in the future) 3007 and Professor Farnsworth and the rest of the Planet Express crew must battle nudist alien internet scammers who wish to take over Earth. Having discovered the secret to time traveller tattooed on Fry's arse, they reprogram Bender and sent him back in time to steal Earth's treasures.
If this trailer is a mark of the quality of the final product then Futurama will return victorious and we must all buy it so that they might restore it to full series again. We must prevail! On comrades!
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Personally, I think this is great news. After a so-so first season, the 2nd to 4th seasons of Futurama was packed full of quality episodes which rivalled The Simpson's in it's hey day
I still can't believe this got cancelled when it was obviously getting better and better, while The Simpson's has continued to become a shadow of it's former self.
If Matt Groening balls' this one up as well he can bite my shiny metal ass