Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6605 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-30
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 15
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 15
• Running time: 999 minutes

Synopsis
The story centers around Philip Fry, who in 1999 accidentally got himself cryogenically frozen while working a dead-end job as a pizza delivery boy. Waking up in the year 3000, he's given another chance, and goes to work at the Planet Express Corporation, again as a delivery boy, but this time to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. He also befriends Leela, a beautiful one-eyed mutant alien, and Bender, a robot with a substance abuse problem. FUTURAMA is an animated sci-fi comedy from the genius of Matt Groenig, the mastermind responsible for THE SIMPSONS. The show was equally hilarious as its predecessor, and sported a cast of guest characters to rival Homer and pals. Includes series 1 to 4.

Customer Reviews

The future is bright - the future is Futurama
72 (i think) 25 minute-ish episodes of purely watchable cartoon comedy, top quality even from Episode 1, with humour appealing to many different tastes; Fry's idiotic slapstick, Leela's 'sensitive, different & female in control' line of thought, Bender's felonious sarcasm, the Professor's abrupt mad scientist statements & elderly comments, plus that of the numerous other less prominent characters. Thoroughly enjoyed by yours truly. A great price too & no delivery problems. Thank you Amazon!

Outstanding...
Hilarious for any Futurama fan...my girlfriend actually doesn't like the Simpsons (yeah I know, I can't understand it either), but still found many of these hilarious!

With regard to the person who said there was no play all option - the copy I received had a play all option on each disc...I used it a few times. Who knows, maybe they took notice and resolved that...

THE CREATORS OF THE SIMPSONS MAKE ANOTHER HIT
This marvelous animation, from the creator of my all time favourite motion picture, The Simpsons, uses a subtle integration of cgi graphics with a more flashy version of Groenings style of animation to produce half hours of non stop gags (quite intelligent in some cases) and fun adventure. The pop culture references so great in The Simpsons only go farther and wider here in this story of Fry, a pizza delivery boy sent through suspended animation to the year 3000 from the year 1999.

Phillip J. Fry, better known simply as 'Fry', was a pizza delivery boy in the late nineties. The first episode deals with his being frozen in a cryogenic capsule for a thousand years, in the background through the window we see the changing of New York, which has become New New York, and remains the central setting for the series after this episode. Fry soon meets Turanga Leela, a one eyed girl who believes she is an alien, who was raised at an orphanage. (we later find out she is in fact a mutant and her parents live underground) Fry runs from Leela after being assigned work as a delivery boy (for he wished for a fresh start) and meets Bender the robot, who is programmed to bend, and has a selfish and indulgent persona, enjoying cigars and alcohol (incidentally the fuel of all robots). Leela then turns to Fry's side and the three find Fry's only living relative, Professor Farnsworth, who employs them in his delivery company, Planet Express. Other members of the crew are Zoidberg, a alien lobster like creature, and Amy Wong, a wealthy martian, as well as Scruffy the janitor (often ignored despite caring for the company deeply) and a Jamaican businessman who is good at financial operations. The series generally follows adventures on different planets, or Earth, involving a variety of recurring characters like Zapp Brannigan, who admires Leela, and many 'heads', famous personalities in the form of heads inside glass containers filled with fluid, such as Richard Nixon. The series' style shares much with The Simpsons, but is cleaner animated and uses cgi for spacecraft and other objects to some degree. Also of note is the colour of skin, pink rather than Simpsons yellow.

The characters are great, and the humour and dialogue are very worthy of the corner box's schedule. If you only allowed programs of this quality on the TV guide would be almost empty. This series is very amusing and enjoyable, and is almost as good as The Simpsons for entertainment. The characters have interesting personalities and the plots are, considering it's setting, quite extraordinary. Quite an enjoyable show.