Futurama: Complete Seasons 1 - 4 | 
 enlarge | Directors: Susie Dietter, Wesley Archer, Rich Moore
Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Dimaggio, Lauren Tom, Phil Lamarr
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: £85.00
New (3) Used (5) from £85.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 6411
Format: Box Set, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Number Of Items: 15
Running Time: 999
Discs: 15
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.7 x 5.2
EAN: 5039036018920
ASIN: B0002UUO8G
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1999
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: NEW SEALED
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The future is bright - the future is Futurama March 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
72 (i think) 25 minute-ish episodes of purely watchable cartoon comedy, top quality even from Episode 1, with humour appealing to many different tastes; Fry's idiotic slapstick, Leela's 'sensitive, different & female in control' line of thought, Bender's felonious sarcasm, the Professor's abrupt mad scientist statements & elderly comments, plus that of the numerous other less prominent characters. Thoroughly enjoyed by yours truly. A great price too & no delivery problems. Thank you Amazon!
Outstanding... March 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hilarious for any Futurama fan...my girlfriend actually doesn't like the Simpsons (yeah I know, I can't understand it either), but still found many of these hilarious!
With regard to the person who said there was no play all option - the copy I received had a play all option on each disc...I used it a few times. Who knows, maybe they took notice and resolved that...
THE CREATORS OF THE SIMPSONS MAKE ANOTHER HIT December 5, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This marvelous animation, from the creator of my all time favourite motion picture, The Simpsons, uses a subtle integration of cgi graphics with a more flashy version of Groenings style of animation to produce half hours of non stop gags (quite intelligent in some cases) and fun adventure. The pop culture references so great in The Simpsons only go farther and wider here in this story of Fry, a pizza delivery boy sent through suspended animation to the year 3000 from the year 1999.
Phillip J. Fry, better known simply as 'Fry', was a pizza delivery boy in the late nineties. The first episode deals with his being frozen in a cryogenic capsule for a thousand years, in the background through the window we see the changing of New York, which has become New New York, and remains the central setting for the series after this episode. Fry soon meets Turanga Leela, a one eyed girl who believes she is an alien, who was raised at an orphanage. (we later find out she is in fact a mutant and her parents live underground) Fry runs from Leela after being assigned work as a delivery boy (for he wished for a fresh start) and meets Bender the robot, who is programmed to bend, and has a selfish and indulgent persona, enjoying cigars and alcohol (incidentally the fuel of all robots). Leela then turns to Fry's side and the three find Fry's only living relative, Professor Farnsworth, who employs them in his delivery company, Planet Express. Other members of the crew are Zoidberg, a alien lobster like creature, and Amy Wong, a wealthy martian, as well as Scruffy the janitor (often ignored despite caring for the company deeply) and a Jamaican businessman who is good at financial operations. The series generally follows adventures on different planets, or Earth, involving a variety of recurring characters like Zapp Brannigan, who admires Leela, and many 'heads', famous personalities in the form of heads inside glass containers filled with fluid, such as Richard Nixon. The series' style shares much with The Simpsons, but is cleaner animated and uses cgi for spacecraft and other objects to some degree. Also of note is the colour of skin, pink rather than Simpsons yellow.
The characters are great, and the humour and dialogue are very worthy of the corner box's schedule. If you only allowed programs of this quality on the TV guide would be almost empty. This series is very amusing and enjoyable, and is almost as good as The Simpsons for entertainment. The characters have interesting personalities and the plots are, considering it's setting, quite extraordinary. Quite an enjoyable show.
Praise all round November 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've thought about buying this programme on DVD for a long time--having tried to catch the occasional episode on VHS and missing many--so very pleased to find it on Amazon, and at such a good price! It arrived very quickly and so well packaged!!--a great idea to suspend the box of DVDs in a plastic envelope within the cardboard box--well done. A great series, to enjoy for many a moon.
Love The Simpsons? Adore Futurama! November 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Futurama is Matt Groening's superb follow-up to The Simpsons, a cartoon that reinvented the genre. Futurama follows the very silly exploits of Fry, an intergalactic delivery boy and his human, alien, robot and other assorted weirdo friends, as they deliver subpoenas (to Sicily 8 - the mob planet), jump dimensions, get beaten at atomic-mutant basketball, blow up planets, have snoo-snoo, start wars, meet Al Gore and have problems tuning the television in in their new apartment.
On first glance, this series bears striking similarities to its predecessor. The animation is of the same simple yet effective style (only with more 3D modelling) and the humour is in the same vein of ironic, post-modern tomfoolery. As far as this highly opinionated reviewer is concerned, none of that is a drawback. On second glance, first opinions are reinforced. Futurama has the same high standard of sophisticated and low-brow humour; (numerous) references to Richard Nixon and the dense symbolism of Melville's Moby Dick sit alongside Fantastic Voyage journeys up a main character's arse.
Perhaps a major difference, that might have no importance overall, is that whereas The Simpsons is populated by either children or adults, Futurama mostly focuses on those in between those age groups. Standout characters include Zapp Brannigan, a Shatnerian, pompous buffoon, who sees himself as an intergalactic alien-killing, velour-adoring, love-making machine ("Have the boy fetch me my shorts!" "The `boy' sir?" "You. You fetch my shorts!") and Calculon, a thespian-bot whose overly dramatic pronouncements are distinctly at odds with his career in the robot soap opera `All My Circuits.'
"Who's that guy?" "Him? Token human character?" "Yeah! What's he do?" "Y'know, the usual human stuff: he laughs, he loves, he learns." "Boring!"
To conclude, if you enjoyed The Simpsons (but think it's not as good as it used to be), then you will love (all four glorious series - all hail!) of Futurama. An unimaginative reviewer might write that Futurama is to The Jetsons what The Simpsons is to The Flintstones, so I've written it, which won't help you to appreciate just how great Futurama is. From the fabulous retro-futurist robot designs to the scuzzy New New York labourer who deliberately ruins the veneer of `the future' with his string vest and pot-belly, Futurama consistently hits the mark. Rumour round the bad-ass gravity pump is that it may be returning... Good news, everybody!
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