Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder

Into the Wild Green Yonder is the 4th and (hopefully) final entry in the series of Futurama films. So far my reactions to them have been:

1) Bender’s Big Score: Rubbish.
2) The Beast with a Billion Backs: Shit
3) Bender’s Game: Meh

So you can imagine I wasn’t exactly in awe when I saw a copy of Yonder had escaped onto the tubes…

Anyway, I’ll keep this one short. As this is the 4th film you’ll either want to watch it or not. I’ll bullet point my observations…

• Yonder is funny. Not particularly funny but it’s better than the Simpsons film. Unspurisngly.

• The guest star this time round is Penn Jilette. Oh well.

• Two of the requisite four stories are terrible, two are okay.

• It does that usual Bad American Television trick of having a semi political story and then copping out at the end with a resolution that re-establishes the status quo.

• It ends on what they probably thought was a really uplifting note. My reaction was: Is that it?

As I write this, one thing is obvious to me. Yonder wasn’t bad but there was so little to it, I’ve got very little to say about it. Other than a few stand out (for good or bad) moments, I can barely remember what happens in the damn thing. Which is odd for an hour and a half of television which I watched three days ago…

So, to sum up, it’s not worth watching unless you really, really, really need to know what the creators think should happen next to the Futurama crew but they can’t end this in any way that’s more moving or poignant than the ending of The Devils Hands Are Idle Playthings so the whole exercise was really rather pointless.