Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009) (V)

Director:

Peter Avanzino

Writers:

Matt Groening (creator)
Matt Groening (developer) ...
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Release Date:

24 February 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

All the other galaxies will be green with envy!

Plot:

Dark forces older than time itself are on the attack, hell-bent on stopping the dawn of a wondrous new green age...

Plot Keywords:

Pink Car | Shallow Grave | Leprechaun | Gambling | Feminist Group

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Billy West	...	Philip J. Fry / Professor Hubert Farnsworth / Dr. Zoidberg / Leo Wong / Poker Sign-Up Clerk / Leo's Caddy / President Richard Nixon / Miniture Gold Construction Worker / Zapp Brannigan / The Dark One's Psychic Voice / Antonin Scalia's Head / Madfellow / Striped Biologist Taunter (voice)
Katey Sagal	...	Turanga Leela (voice)
John Di Maggio	...	Bender / Joey Mousepad / Elzar / Sal / Additional Voices (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Fanny / Michael's Wife / Boobs Vanderbilt / Dixie / Linda / Petunia / Ruth Ginsberg's Head / Mom (voice)
Maurice LaMarche	...	Donbot / Clamps / Fanny's Announcer / Tex Connecticut / Lrrr / Lrrr's Father / Headless Body of Agnew / Morbo / Kif Kroker / Narrator / Abe Lincoln / Calculon (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Hermes Conrad / Magna-Phallix Commercial Voice-Over / Nixon's Bodyguard / Thomas / The Dark One / Preacherbot (voice)
Lauren Tom	...	Amy Wong / Inez Wong / Trixie (voice)
David Herman	...	The Number 9 Man / Michael / Neputnian (voice)
Dawnn Lewis	...	LaBarbara Conrad / Womens' Prison Warden (voice)
Snoop Dogg	...	Himself (voice)
Phil Hendrie	...	Frida Waterfall / Hutch Waterfall / The Encyclopod (voice)
Seth MacFarlane	...	Mars Vegas Singer (voice)
Penn Jillette	...	Himself (voice) (as Penn & Teller)
Teller	...	Himself (credit only) (as Penn & Teller)

Directed by
Peter Avanzino

Writing credits
Matt Groening		(creator)
Matt Groening		(developer) &
David X. Cohen		(developer)
Ken Keeler		(teleplay) (parts 1 & 4)
Ken Keeler		(story) (parts 1 & 4) &
David X. Cohen		(story) (parts 1 & 4)
Ken Keeler		(written by) (parts 2 & 3)

Produced by
Elise Belknap	....	associate producer
David X. Cohen	....	executive producer
Matt Groening	....	executive producer
Eric Horsted	....	consulting producer
Eric Kaplan	....	consulting producer
Claudia Katz	....	producer
Rich Moore	....	animation executive producer
Michael Rowe	....	co-executive producer
Lee Supercinski	....	producer
Geraldine Symon	....	animation line producer
Geraldine Symon	....	producer: main title
Gregg Vanzo	....	animation executive producer
Patric Verrone	....	co-executive producer (as Patric M. Verrone)

Original Music by
Christopher Tyng

Film Editing by
Paul D. Calder

Casting by
Scott Muller

Production Design by
Serban Cristescu

Production Management
Michael Hughes	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mike Smith	....	director: main title
Stevan Wahl	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Peter Cole	....	sound re-recording mixer
Travis Powers	....	sound designer
Carlos Sotolongo	....	production mixer
Samuel C. Crutcher	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Don W. Kim	....	3D animator (as Don Kim)
Gena Kornyshev	....	digital background painter
David Lee	....	effects animator
John MacFarlane	....	effects animator
Mark Orme	....	3D animator
Jason Plapp	....	digital camera and composite
Chris Stover	....	3D animator
Doug Tiano	....	digital camera and composite
Scott Vanzo	....	3D director: main title
Scott Vanzo	....	digital camera and composite supervisor
Scott Vanzo	....	director of computer graphics
Eric Whited	....	3D animator
Eric Whited	....	3D animator: main title
Mike Wodkowski	....	digital camera and composite

Animation Department
Stephanie Arnett	....	character layout artist
David D. Au	....	character layout artist (as David Au)
Daniel Bond	....	character layout artist
Roy Camacho	....	character layout artist
Crystal Chesney	....	retake director (as Crystal Chesney-Thompson)
Nam Suk Cho	....	background layout artist
Patrick Dailey	....	character layout artist (as Patrick T. Dailey)
Erben Detrablan	....	background layout artist
Orlando Distor	....	character layout artist
Edgar Duncan	....	background & prop designer (as Edgar Duncan Jr.)
Jim Feeley	....	character designer
Edmund Fong	....	storyboard artist
Bryan Francis	....	character layout artist
Christofer Graham	....	storyboard artist (as Chris Graham)
Peter Hixson	....	animation timer
Timothy Hwang	....	background layout artist (as Tim Hwang)
Claudia V. Keene	....	character layout artist (as Claudia Keene)
Megan Kelly	....	character layout artist
Karapet Keroglyan	....	character designer
Jae H. Kim	....	character layout artist
Jiwook Kim	....	character layout artist
Alex Lee	....	background & prop designer
Alex Lee	....	background layout artist
Sang Am Lee	....	animation checker
Brian LoSchiavo	....	character layout artist
Peter Maivia	....	design clean-up artist
Aimee Major	....	character layout artist (as Aimee Steinberger)
Frank Marino	....	animation timer
Jeff Mertz	....	background & prop designer
Robert P. Moore	....	character layout artist
Jeanette Moreno	....	character layout artist (as Jeanette Moreno Keng)
Brian Phillipson	....	track reading & lip assignment
Drew T. Pierce	....	character layout artist (as Drew Pierce)
Vladi Rubizhevsky	....	background & prop designer
Stephen Sandoval	....	animation timer
Stephen Sandoval	....	storyboard artist
Hyunbo Simm	....	character layout artist
Steve Socki	....	animation timer
Pablo Solis	....	storyboard artist
Chris Minki Song	....	character layout artist
T.C. Starnes Jr.	....	background layout artist (as Thomas Starnes)
Ted Stearn	....	storyboard artist
Derek Lee Thompson	....	animation timer (as Derek Thompson)
Bonnie F. Watkins	....	animation accountant (as Bonnie Watkins)
Cindy Azada Whitman	....	design coordinator
Mun Jeong Yu	....	overseas animation supervisor (as Yumun Jeong)

Editorial Department
Samantha Harrison	....	color supervisor
Rachel Stratton	....	color key
Danik Thomas	....	associate editor
Samuel S. Williams	....	editor: Rough Draft Studios (as Samuel Williams)
Chad Woods	....	color key

Music Department
Scott Schirle	....	music editor

Other crew
N. Vyolet Diaz	....	assistant to producers
Hugo Linares	....	production assistant
Jeffrey Perez	....	production assistant
Abner Pineda	....	production assistant
Sylvia Ramirez	....	assistant production accountant
Carolyn Roach	....	production assistant
Michael Saikin	....	production assistant
Helen M. Saric	....	production coordinator
Carson Sciarrino	....	production coordinator
Ben Sigman	....	systems administrator
Ursula Wendel	....	assistant to producers
Hyejoon Yun	....	overseas liaison

Production Companies

• 20th Century Fox Television
• Curiosity Company, The

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (UK) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (UK) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Comedy Central (2009) (USA) (TV)
• Gativideo (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Before Noon Post-Production  post-production facilities
• L.A. Studios, The  recording studio
• Travis Powers Sound Design  sound design

Also Known As:

Into the Wild Green Yonder (Australia)
The Futurama Movie 4 (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

89 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:6 | Ireland:12 | UK:12

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The Sinatra-esque opening song is performed by "Family Guy" (1999) creator Seth MacFarlane.

Goofs:

Continuity: (At 01:13:15) Professor Farnsworth takes a five dollar bill out of his pocket, but when the camera zooms in on the bill it's being held by Hermes Conrad. When the camera zooms out again, it is back to being in Professor Farnsworth's hand.

Quotes:

Bender: [First lines] Mars Vegas, the eternal city.
Leo Wong: [Leo Wong pushes a TNT plunger that destroys the entire city] Two, one, zero!
Bender: Rest in hell, Crapville!

Movie Connections:

References "Futurama: Spanish Fry (#5.12)" (2003)

Soundtrack:

That Was Then (And This is Too)

A single episode worth of jokes stretched into a feature length episode

To call this a "movie" is a misnomer. Its nothing more than an episode of Futurama stretched to what feels like hours. Don't get me wrong there were some funny bits, but the gags came to thin and slow to keep my attention. Marginally better than "The Beast With a Billion Backs" this, for a big Futurama fan, was a big let down.

Though Bender's big score was a watchable piece the latest two movies were a bore. If they plan on making another Futurama movie they need a big re-think. The Southpark movie proved that converting Prime time "Adult" cartoon comedy shows in to full blown comedy movies can be done. The Simpsons movie and the last two Futurama movies proves how difficult this is.