Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama: Leela and the Enzyklopoden ( Original title: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder ) is an American science fiction animated film from 2009, based on the television series Futurama. He is the last of four films that make up the fifth and sixth broadcast production season of the series together. He was first published in the United States and Canada on 24 February 2009 as a direct-to- DVD production for the home theater market, the United Kingdom only one day before, and in Germany the DVD was released on April 9, 2009. world premiere was on February 6, 2009 to a comic convention in New York City.

The film was created as a series finale, as it was not yet clear whether there are more seasons. But in early June 2009 confirmed the production company 20th Century Fox, that is working on a new season of 26 episodes, the premiere of which took place on 24 July 2010.

Guest performers are Phil Hendrie, Penn & Teller, Snoop Dogg and Seth MacFarlane, who sings the title song.

The work was awarded in 2009 with an Annie Award.

Action

The Planet Express crew visits Amy's wealthy parents, Leo and Inez, who are busy, the "old" Mars Vegas demolish and build a new extravaganteres. A group of eco - feminists protested against the related environmental destruction, which leads to an accident in which a piece of jewelry comes in the form of a Venus symbol in Fry's head. Leela saves a leech, the last of its kind, because the remaining copies of his species were exterminated during the construction work. To compensate Fry because of the accident, Leo Fry is perfect for a poker tournament and donated the rest of the crew a holiday. The jewel in his head causes Fry thoughts can read. Only when aluminum foil wrapped around his head, he does not hear the other voices. Despite his new ability Fry does not win the tournament, since Bender is in possession of the "lucky foot" of the Mafia robot Donbot which gives it incredible luck.

After the tournament, Fry learns the secret society of the mind- reading slush pears know. They tell him of two ancient counterparts in the universe, the Enzyklopoden and the Dark. The Dark want to destroy all life, the Enzyklopoden preserve it. Fry gets the job, the last egg of a Enzyklopoden, a dwarf star to save it from destruction. Unfortunately, Leo Wong wants to blow that star to build an intergalactic miniature golf course.

While Leela joins the eco - feminists, Fry creeps with the help of his mind reading as a safety inspector at a Leo. Leela is able gradually to convince Amy and the rest of Planet Express. But Leo is planning his intergalactic miniature golf course continue. Fry gets in his capacity as a safety inspector has the dubious honor of pulling the trigger for the explosion in a solemn ceremony. From the mud pears he gets the warning that will be in the crucial seconds of the Dark on hand to ensure the destruction of the dwarf star.

At the ceremony, eventually turns out that Leela's leech, she carries around with him constantly, the last representative of the Dark is. It is made ​​harmless and eventually killed. Bursting dwarf star is prevented. Directly following from the star develops a Enzyklopode, a huge, living in space, being that externally resembles a skate and houses some copies all the extinct species.

Because the prevention of blowing up the Planet Express crew must flee from the law enforcement officers in the form of Zapp Brannigan. They provide a chase. Fry and Leela confess to each other their love. To escape their pursuers, they eventually fly into a suddenly emerging worm hole into an uncertain future.

Production

The Futurama team began work on the film in 2006, to union problems affecting production. Producer Lee Supercinski According to the notice, the Futurama studio that she gets the animatic of the film from the Rough Draft Studios until two weeks before the time limit of the Writers Guild of America. Then, the authors were forced to go through the script without having seen the animatic complete. The Futurama studio got the finished animated film in June 2008, weeks before a predicted strike again, so that the authors were forced again to see the script, and without having seen the film completely.

Since the authors were aware that Leela and the Enzyklopoden could be the total of last Futurama episode, they built a lot of references to this fact. The title screen displays the message: " The Humans Shall Not Defeat Us" ( People must not defeat us ), according to Cohen, a defiant quip regarding the possible end to the series. In the middle of the film there is a setting outside the Planet Express building, where a banner with the inscription. " Going Out Of Business Forever! Again! " ( Geschäftsaufgabe! again! ) Depends decreases a reference to the first production at the end of the series in 2003. Too, there is an allusion to a scene on the first episode of Futurama, Professor Farnsworth in the Hermes ' and Zoidbergs career chips.

In gratitude for the fans, there is a scene in which up to 250 characters can be seen on the screen, even many smaller roles from the 72 episodes and 4 movies. However, no children are to be seen (such as Cubert Farnsworth ) that were removed when the production team noticed that Morbo mentioned that no children are present. In the DVD commentary producer David X. Cohen says that Rough Draft Studios in Korea a higher premium for this scene was because there were difficulties in the animation derselbigen.

The opening music is a piece in the style of Frank Sinatra, which is sung by Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy and American Dad, while Planet Express ship flies over the casinos of Mars Vegas.

Synchronization

→ see: Futurama # synchronization

Guest appearances

Publication

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on 24 February 2009 on DVD and Blu- ray Disc

Awards

The film was awarded the Annie Award 2009 in the Best Home Entertainment Production category.