While I enjoyed this, and the other three films, I think 'Futurama' is better suited to the half hour format; while it didn't drag it the plot did feel a bit stretched and an early sub-plot felt as if it was there to pad out the main story.
The main story covers Leo Wong's attempt to built the galaxy's largest miniature golf course which will involve the destruction of several planets and the extinction of several species. A group of feminist eco-warriors led by Freda Waterfall are protesting against this in a fairly peaceful way. When Leela joins their ranks they become more militant and President Nixon calls in Zapp Brannigan to hunt them down. After an accident Fry finds that he is able to read people's thoughts, this leads to him being kidnapped by a group who explain that he is the last hope for thousands of extinct species, to do this he must protect a star which is due to be destroyed to make way for the eighteenth hole in the new golf course. Fry is the only one who can do this because only he has a mind that can't be read by 'The Dark One', a creature determined to see star destroyed. This means he can't tell Leela that he is on her side.
I laughed several times and was never bored but I do wish things had been better explained; why did getting Freda's feminist symbol embedded in his head cause Fry to be able to read minds and why were the only people protesting a small group of feminists when the issue was about conservation not gender politics? I enjoyed the early sub-plot involving Bender and Don Bots wife but felt it would have been better suited to being an episode plot rather than featuring in a film. The animation and voice acting was good and easily up to the standards of the episodes.
The main story covers Leo Wong's attempt to built the galaxy's largest miniature golf course which will involve the destruction of several planets and the extinction of several species. A group of feminist eco-warriors led by Freda Waterfall are protesting against this in a fairly peaceful way. When Leela joins their ranks they become more militant and President Nixon calls in Zapp Brannigan to hunt them down. After an accident Fry finds that he is able to read people's thoughts, this leads to him being kidnapped by a group who explain that he is the last hope for thousands of extinct species, to do this he must protect a star which is due to be destroyed to make way for the eighteenth hole in the new golf course. Fry is the only one who can do this because only he has a mind that can't be read by 'The Dark One', a creature determined to see star destroyed. This means he can't tell Leela that he is on her side.
I laughed several times and was never bored but I do wish things had been better explained; why did getting Freda's feminist symbol embedded in his head cause Fry to be able to read minds and why were the only people protesting a small group of feminists when the issue was about conservation not gender politics? I enjoyed the early sub-plot involving Bender and Don Bots wife but felt it would have been better suited to being an episode plot rather than featuring in a film. The animation and voice acting was good and easily up to the standards of the episodes.