Bender’s Big DVD Release
Author: Stephen Gerding
November 26th, 2007
I’m unclear on how it’s already managed 16 5 star reviews since it was just released, oh, tomorrow as of this writing, but that’s unimportant. The thing we all need to know is that the first Futurama direct to DVD flick is (more or less) here. Hopefully it’ll follow the path tread by Family Guy and be just as good as the late, lamented series and not some robot zombified cel-animated corpse dragging around old jokes like an arm held on by a few still connected tendons. Whatever the case, I like seeing a prematurely canceled show getting a second shot a second shot on DVD and wouldn’t mind one bit if someone were to someday try this for a live action series.
Amazon has a half-minute clip to promote the release, but a) I’m not sure if it’s an actual clip from the movie or a clever ad commissioned by Amazon and b)it’s still not embeddable, so you’ll kinda have to go there to watch it.
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One Response to “Bender’s Big DVD Release”
November 26th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Its been on BitTorrent sites since last week. And honestly that is the best way to get word of mouth…early adopters get the movie, watch it and spread the word, if its good it’ll spread through the blogosphere and even your mom will tell you she heard it was good by the time you can buy it at Wal-Mart.
Then, a smart Fox will have 2 versions of the DVD waiting for you at retail outlets, the no-frill $17.99 version and the fancier $29.99 one with Toynami’s Frye action figure variant and a can of Slurm, with an exclusive T-shirt in a box shaped like their ship - I would buy that in a second and being the Furturama nerd that I am I would buy the SE one even if the movie sucked.