Originally posted by: sandorski
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
If you've had the unfortunate experience of watching the Futurama movies, you know the series is already doomed.
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I liked the Movies.
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Each movie has relied on an increasingly ridiculous and improbable plot device. Only the first movie feels like they invested any energy into it, the second and third were just cheap tricks to churn out something to the public. In fact, I'd say that the first movie was actually pretty good. I liked the plot device and I liked how scences kept repeating themselves with increasing complexity. They went out of their way to explain a lot of tings, but, in general, the movie was a good effort considering the hiatus they'd been on. I didn't like that Nibbler revealed he can speak to everyone, but that's just person preference.
The second movie should have built on that momentum, but it didn't. It introduced an even weirder plot device. The jokes were forced, the plot was stupid, and the part with the robots at the end felt like a cheap rip-off of previous episodes.
The third movie was such an abomination that it might rival Star Wars Ep 1. It was a slap in the face to the clever writing, plot twists that characterized the regular show.
First of all, Bender DOES have an imagination throughout the ENTIRE FUCKING SHOW. You can't just change one thing about a character to introduce a lame parody of LOTR. His imaginative abilities are exemplified time and again ("I'll build my own theme park! With hookers! And blackjack! ... Forget the theme park!"). In fact, Bender's ability to imagine things is exactly what makes him fucking funny in the first place. When they started the Dungeons and Dragons scene and Bender couldn't imagine anything, I almost turned off the fuckign movie right there. It makes no sense! It's like saying that Jerry Seinfeld is suddenly unfunny in Seinfeld or that Bart is suddenly a model student.
Second, the show also decides that all Nibblonians have been enslaved by Mom's evil corporation to make Dark Matter because they are the only source of it in the universe. ... Okay. If that's true then they've been enslaved since the show began, which means they couldn't be flying around eating the evil brains or doing any of the other shit they do.
Third, with the exception of one or two lines, the jokes just weren't that funny or clever.
Yeah, people will probably say that #1 and #2 are stupid criticisms, but what made Futurama so great was that all the small things tended to add up. There weren't huge gaping plot holes and they had a great ability to carry on gag jokes. I feel like the writers threw all that away in the second and third movies and just chose to make something completely new (and horrible).
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