Into the Wild Green Yonder
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| Into The Wild Green Yonder | |
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| Released | February, 24 2009 |
| Running Time | 130 min |
| Directed By | Peter Avanzino |
| Written By | Ken Keeler |
| Guests | Snoop Dogg Penn Jillette Phil Hendrie |
| Preceded by | Bender's Game |
| Followed by | Unknown episode airing in 2010 on Comedy Central |
Into The Wild Green Yonder is the fourth Futurama straight-to-dvd film. It was thought to be the last of the series, until Comedy Central announced the series will be revived with 26 new episodes starting in 2010.
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[edit] Plot
In deepest space, a wave of green energy animates a small system in slightly deepest space, causing DNA to form.
The scene switches to Mars Vegas, which is promptly demolished and New Mars Vegas is being constructed. Leo Wong has interest in what he destroys, like an oasis, or the Martian muck leeches. Leela is only able to save one, which repeatedly sucks blood from her, before Leo covers the rest of it's colony with cement. During a protest from the Eco-Feministas, led by Frida Waterfall, Leo blows up the ground beneath their feet, causing Frida's femi-necklace to lodge itself in Fry's head, hidden by his "hair horn". Leo compromises by giving Fry a token to a free poker tournament and the rest of the crew a free vacation. Soon enough, Fry seems to know what everyone else is thinking or going to say next. He leave the casino, only to be overwhelmed by a number of voices in his head. He runs into an alley, where he meets a transient named Hutch, who gives him a tinfoil hat to place over his head to block out the voices. However, Hutch discovers that he can't read Fry's mind. He warns Fry not to tell anyone or else the Dark Ones will get him easily.
Bender falls in love with Fanny, a Fembot married to Donbot, head of the Robot Mafia. They have an affair when the Donbot isn't looking. However, his cohorts, Joey Mousepad and Clamps grow suspicious.
Deciding to do something go with his telepathy, Fry enters a poker tournament with use of the chip Leo gave him and all of his life savings. Bender enters also, using Fanny's bra, instead of running before the Donbot gets wise. Fry manages to get to the finals with his telepathy. However, Bender wins by dumb luck, especially since Fanny gave him the Donbot's lucky foot. Finally, suspicious, the Donbot and his gang take Bender and Fanny out into the Martian Desert; where they shoot and bury them. But since, as robots, they couldn't truly be killed, they emerge from the ground next day. They breakup the affair and Franny goes back to the Donbot.
While surveying a system with a Violet Dwarf Star, the Planet Express crew locates primordial lifeforms on an asteroid but the Professor, having been bribed by Leo, decides to demolish the system anyway.
Fry meets Hutch again, who knocks him out and drags him down into a secret lair beneath a dumpster and is introduced to the Legion of Mad Fellows, a group of telepaths who are trying to stop evil forces from destroying the gateway to the "green age". Their leader, the Number 9 Man, explains that the energy force called Chi gave life to the universe. However, it receded, causing the majority of the universe's species to go extinct. He tells Fry to go undercover as Leo's security guard and make sure that he does not destroy the violet dwarf.
Leo Wong goes to demolish an arm of the Milky Way for a miniature golf course, prompting Leela, Amy and LaBarbara to join the Eco-Feministas. Unfortunately, during a peaceful protest, an golf cart accidentally kills the Headless Body of Spiro Agnew. Forced on the run from the government and Zapp Brannigan, Leela proposes that they take more direct action. After sabotaging many of Leo's construction sites, they gain support from Earth's female populace. They even hijack the Planet Express ship and paint it pink, locking the Professor, Hermes and Zoidberg in a go-go cage.
Fry manages to tell Frida to inform Leela that he's trying to save the violet dwarf too. But when she reminds herself, the Dark One hears her and demands to know who gave her the message. Luckily, she didn't know Fry's name, but unluckily, she was psychically murdered.
At the second meeting with the Legion, in the old Martian reserve that was abandoned five years ago, Number 9 explains to Fry about the ongoing battle between the Encyclopods, a race who seeks the preservation of all life and the Dark Ones, who desire destruction of all species, who had since evolved from a frog and snake living in symbiotic harmony. When the Chi receded, only the strongest could survive, like the Dark Ones, while a significant amount of life was extinguishing, like the Encyclopods. But they believe that they left an egg behind, which is the violet dwarf star. Once the Encyclopods are reborn, they can recreate all the species that ever went extinct. However, Fry can't tell anyone about this, as the Dark Ones will know of their existence and kill anyone who knows about the egg.
The feministas return to the Honeybun Hideout to find Frida murdered. Having heard from Amy that Fry is working for her father, they all fear that he killed her. Leela calls Fry to prove them wrong, but when he mentions Frida, she fears that he killed her. However, they agree to meet at Keeler Canyon. Unfortunately, Zapp was eavesdropping on their conversation and ambushes them. Thinking him a traitor, Leela takes Fry hostage. Eventually, after a chase around the galaxy, the feministas are captured, put on trial and sentenced. However, Bender breaks them out, stating that he'd be committing fifteen felonies at the same time. However, breaking out was even more difficult, as security was tight. After a failed plan to distract the guards with Bender as a hooker, they decide to run for it, as Bender bends a brick wall. Once outside, they are evacuated by the rest of the Planet Express crew.
Fry is give the mysterious Omega device to momentarily disable the Dark One at close range. The only problem is knowing who and what the Dark One looks like, after eons of evolution and the fact that his mind is unreadable. Worse, the Dark One can sense their thoughts, even through their tinfoil hats, therefore, they can't come up with a plan. Number 9 man trusts Fry to find and stop the Dark One.
At the ceremony, Fry is given the honor to blow up the violet dwarf star, while scanning the crowd for the Dark One. Unfortunately, he is unable to even detect the dark One's presence and concludes that since his mind can't be read, he must be the Dark One. Just then, the Planet Express crew arrives and takes the detonator. The Dark One telepathically urges Leo to blow up the star, but is disable by a swing of a golf club from Amy. As Leela is about to defuse the detonator, Fry urges her to give it back to him, unable to explain his intentions; after a moment of reflection, Leela decides to trust him and gives it back; Fry pushes the trigger anyway, having rewired it to the Omega device, intending to destroy himself. However, the device extends into a more complex mechanism, and an orb of green light engulfs Fry and Leela. Dumbfounded that he was still alive, Fry yells, "It didn't work. I'm the Dark One and it didn't do anything!" Just then, the Dark One reveals himself as the Martian muck leech, who is affected by the device.
The asteroids in the system form a sperm-like shape and go into the violet dwarf, triggering the birth of of a massive Encyclopod that looks like a manta ray with a biodome on its back, containing countless alien species and plants. As Hutch is about to explain everything, the Dark One leaps at him before Fry bats him away. Hutch notices Frida's necklace, who is his sister, lodged in Fry's brain and takes it out, thus ridding him of his mind-reading abilities before expiring. Vowing to avenge Hutch, the Encyclopod then destroys the leech and it's corpse is eaten by the always-hungry Zoidberg. The Encyclopod preserves Hutch's DNA before leaving, ignoring Fry's question as to why he's not saving endangered species. Zapp tries to arrest the Planet Express crew again and they all flee in the ship, dragging Kif along with them. While escaping the Nimbus, they decide to fly into a wormhole, not knowing the destination. Fry and Leela say that they love each other; they kiss as the crew flies into the wormhole.
[edit] Continuity Issues
- Nixon says, "I did stage the moon landing... on Venus!", but Fry and Leela find the lunar landing site on the moon.[1] The ship was moved to the moon by a group called the "Historical Sticklers Society". Though this was used as a way to explain the Lunar Ascension Module's appearance and it is a valid explanation as to how the lander may have been found on the moon, it is not an explanation for the foot prints found outside the lander.
[edit] Trivia
- Every character in the Futurama series appears in this film besides *"Old Man Waterfall"
- Botany Bay, a hotel in New Mars Vegas, is a reference to the real Mandalay Bay and also the ship aboard which Khan escaped Earth in Star Trek: The Original Series episode Space Seed. Also, Khan and his followers use the USS Botany Bay as a shelter on Ceti Alpha V in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.
- All the main characters, except Cubert Farnsworth and Dwight Conrad are onboard the Planet Express Ship at the end.
- The sandworms on Mars are similar to the sandworms from the books and films, Dune.
- The co-ordinates Zapp gives to find Leela, 36,24,36, are the same as Bart Simpson's locker code.
- Number 9 can be seen in many episodes incognito.
[edit] Background Information
- According to David X. Cohen, the movie has a "real epic sci-fi story that involves this ancient battle that's been going on for billions of years and our crew, of course, ends up in the middle of that. It ends on a real sweet note and we'll be content with that if it's the last we ever do."
[edit] Goofs
- Leela's parents are seen in the audience outside the Violet Dwarf System, although they may have gotten a pass to come to the surface.
- Morbo's statement was wrong: a child was in fact there, Cubert Farnsworth.
- When the main characters enter the Planet Express ship, Leela is wearing her feminista outfit and Fry is wearing a formal uniform; but once inside they can be seen in their classic outfits.
[edit] Status
On June 9 2009, it was confirmed that Comedy Central picked up the show for 26 new episodes that will begin airing in 2010, spread over two seasons.[2]
[edit] Alienese
- The two signs in Alienese read, "Caution: Falling Humans" and "The Humans Shall Not Defeat Us".
[edit] Footnotes
