Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder

And so we come to the last Futurama film, and possibly the final Futurama period. It'll be a shame if Matt Groening's finest creation (yeah I went there!) is finished but this is a fitting finale if it comes to pass. This one sees Amy's dad looking to knock out a full arm of the Milky Way so he can construct the galaxy's biggest miniature golf course. Queue much environmental messages, there's been a lot of those in these new Futuramas, but also a lot of Green campaigner bashing too.

Plot-wise this is the strongest of the four films with it feeling the most "film-like" of the bunch. The opening on Mars Vegas still feels superfluous though as beyond a few scenes that establish the story proper most of it doesn't serve the plot, such as Bender's tryst with Donbot's woman and Fry entering a poker tournament. That's not to say that this segment isn't very funny as it features more of the sort of throwaway gags that you've come to expect from Futurama. When the plot gets going these dry up somewhat. The whole thing is very amusing but it isn't quite as laugh out loud funny as the show usually tends to be.

This isn't a problem though as the plotting and set pieces are fantastic and yet again there are some wonderful ideas going on that shamefully I can't write about or it would ruin the film. Safe to say that it's the most cohesive and well-plotted of the latter Futuramas and although it doesn't quite have the laughs of the others it's probably the best of the lot. Shamefully this may well be Futurama's last hurrah, but it's a bloody good one if it is.