“What’s the secret of time travel doing on Fry’s ass?!”
“It was bound to be somewhere ...”

Sometimes it’s surprising how pleased you find yourself to see something again, and this was certainly such a case for me. This straight-to-DVD feature is absolutely a fans-only affair, right from the opening almost entirely dedicated to gags on the whole “cancelled” situation. I don’t think there was a second here I wasn’t either laughing out loud or just beaming with some kind of nostalgia.

There really isn’t a lot for me to say that won’t be either preaching to those who are already gonna buy it anyway or plain make me sound dumb since I’m not a massive Futurama fan to begin with. It still bears the hallmarks and flaws of other animated TV-to-movie switchers, though it mostly avoids feeling too much like 4 episodes strung together and certainly has more fun with the time travel thing than 2005’s Family Guy movie. I laughed a lot more than expected (“I thought you were happy! Your tail was wagging!”), and honestly, the twist at the end is one of the most surprisingly moving things I’ve seen in a movie this year – in the context of Futurama, it’s up there with the last episode, that stuff with the flute, I forget the details except how beautiful I found it at the time. It really got me so much I was almost inclined to give this 5 stars. It’s definitely close for me. There’s even a massive festive element in the second half – making me kinda wish I’d saved this for my Christmas viewing, hehe … but maybe I’ll watch it again that soon anyway

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