Futurama: Season 4

RRP £39.99 Lowest New Price £13.39

Parental Guidance 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Release date: Monday 24th of November 2003 Format: Box set, Full Screen, PAL, Number of discs: 4 Region code: 2 Running time: 414 minutes Language: Danish (Subtitled) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Finnish (Subtitled) Language: Norwegian (Subtitled) Language: Swedish (Subtitled) Language: English (Original Language)

RRP: £39.99
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Amazon.co.uk Review

No more good news everybody--this fourth series of Futurama is the show's last. By turns frenetic and far-sighted, Matt Groening's futuristic comedy provided belly-laughs for self-confessed SF nerds, but somehow failed to connect with a broader audience, even though it was often funnier and sharper than stablemate The Simpsons. So now bid farewell to the Planet Express team--Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Bender, Amy, Hermes, Prof Farnsworth--as well as to kindly Kif, cloned Cubert, megalomaniac Mom, mutants in the sewer, the cast of robo-sitcom All My Circuits, swashbuckling space lothario and William Shatner wannabe Zapp Brannigan, Elzar the four-armed chef, and all the other characters that made Futurama such a unique experience.

This fourth and final year has all the elements that fans enjoyed so much--but also those elements that partially explain its cancellation. Recurring characters are great if you've watched the show before, as are the in-jokes; and the many parodies of classic science fiction are fine for the initiated, but risk leaving other viewers out in the cold. The show's strengths and perceived weaknesses are exemplified in the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", in which the original cast of Star Trek play themselves: hilarious for Trekkers, but not really for anyone else. Elsewhere we find Leela discovering her real parents aren't aliens at all but in fact live in the sewers; Kif getting pregnant; Fry discovering the fossilised remains of his faithful pet dog; and Bender being converted to steam power. Despite some ups and downs, it's still the funniest animated show on TV. Those responsible for cancelling it can bite my shiny metal …

On the DVD: Futurama, Series 4 DVD box set includes a "Play All" function on each disc. Multifarious extras include cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes, animatics, galleries and Easter eggs. --Mark Walker

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DVD Description

Disc One:

• Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
  
• Leela’s Homeworld
  
• Love and Rocket
  
• Less Than Hero
  
• A Taste of Freedom

Disc Two:

• Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV
  
• Jurassic Bark
  
• Crimes of the Hot
  
• Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles
  
• The Why of Fry

Disc Three:

• Where No Fan Has Gone Before
  
• The Sting
  
• Bend Her
  
• Obsoletely Fabulous

Disc Four:

• The Farnsworth Parabox
  
• Three Hundred Big Boys
  
• Spanish Fry
  
• The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings

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Special Features

Disc One:

• Commentary for each episode
  
• Gallery for Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
  
• Deleted scenes from all episodes
  
• International clip from Love and Rocket

Disc Two:

• Audio commentary for each episode
  
• Alternate writer’s commentary for Jurassic Bark
  
• Deleted scenes from Crimes of the Hot, Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles and The Why of Fry

Disc Three:

• Audio commentary for each episode
  
• Deleted scenes from all episodes
  
• Animatic for Obsoletely Fabulous
  
• Easter Egg – Star Trek panel

Disc Four:

• Audio commentary for each episode
  
• Deleted scenes for each episode
  
• Easter Egg - The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings
  
• 11 segments of 3D models from rough drafts
  
• Stills Gallery – new character artwork
  
• 4 trailers
  
• 9 pencil test segments

DVD Technical Information:

• Running Time (feature): 506 mins approx.
  
• Language: English
  
• Subtitles: English for the Hard of Hearing, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
  
• Aspect Ratio: 4 x 3 FF
  
• Audio: 2.0 Dolby Surround

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Synopsis

This collection presents the entire fourth season of Matt Groening's FUTURAMA. The trials and tribulations of the incompetent Planetary Express team--including Leela, Fry and Bender--continue in this starry-eyed final season. Episodes include "Leela's Homeworld," "The Why of Fry," "Where No Fan Has Gone Before," and many more.

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Futurama Season 4
Review date: 2007-12-25 Rating: 10 out of 10

It was a great series and went out with a bang. This season has some comic gems in it such as Bend Her. Luckily Futurama has started again recently so we have some new matierial.

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