Futurama, Vol. 2 | 
| Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal, Tress Macneille, Phil Lamarr
Studio: Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 2948
Format: Animated, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 437 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.8 x 1.4
MPN: FOXD2007919D
UPC: 024543079194
EAN: 0024543079194
ASIN: B00008YGRS
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1999
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 637 minutes Rating: Nr
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Matt Groening's second season of the 31st century sci-fi sitcom Futurama maintained the high scripting standards of the first and also well brought improved digital animation. Couch potato Fry now seems thoroughly reconciled to his new existence, transported 10 centuries hence to "New New York" and working for Professor Farmsworth's delivery service. He's surrounded by a cast of freaks, including the bitchily cute Amy (with whom he has a romantic brush) and Hermes, the West Indian bureaucrat. Most sympathetic is the one-eyed Leela (voiced by Katey Segal). Like Lisa Simpson, she is brilliant but unappreciated; she finds solace in her pet Nibbler, a tiny creature with a voracious, carnivorous appetite. By contrast, Bender, the robot, is programmed with every human vice, a sort of metal Homer Simpson with a malevolent streak. In one of the best episodes, Bender is given a "feelings" chip in order to empathize with Leela after he flushes Nibbler down the toilet. Elsewhere, Fry falls in love with a mermaid when the team discover the lost city of Atlanta, Fry and Bender end up going to war after they join the army to get a discount on gum, and John Goodman guest stars as Santa Claus, an eight-foot gun-toting robot. Brimful with blink-and-you'll-miss-them hip jokes (such as the sign for the Taco Bellevue hospital) and political and pop satire, Futurama isn't a stern warning of things to come but rather, as the makers put it, "a brilliant, hilarious reflection of our own materially (ridiculously) overdeveloped but morally underdeveloped society." --David Stubbs
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 For The Slacker College Student September 30, 2008
David M. Wright (Citrus Heights, CA, USA)
There's nothing I like more than watching cartoons just after I wake up mid-afternoon and eating breakfast, and Futurama is one of the best cartoons to accompany that.
It's hard to judge a season of Futurama without judging it against the context of four stellar seasons and two excellent movies, and not on its own merit. Expanded against first season's mere 13 episodes, this season has 19 episodes of sci-fi parody Groening style. As a number of reviewers have stated, each episode is jam packed with visual jokes that requires pausing several times just to get everything. On top of that, we are continued to the continuing adventures of one of the greatest casts in animation history: Fry, Bender, Leela, Professor Farnsworth, and my personal favorite, Dr. Zoidberg.
Some episode highlights include: "Brannigan, Begin Again" where Zapp Brannigan is court martialed and forced to live Midnight Cowboy style, "Raging Bender" where Bender becomes a robot wrestler, "A Bicyclops for Two" where Leela meets fellow cylcops alien "Al"cazar, and "War Is The H-Word" where Fry negotiates peace with the head of Henry Kissinger.
A great alternative to the Simpsons (especially modern Simpsons)!!!
Good Product May 20, 2008
Jonathan Wimms
Exactly what is described above. Its very good quality show now I can watch it any time I want to.
Not as good as the 1st season January 4, 2008
Daniel J. Zajic (Beaverton, OR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not as original and clever as the 1st season, but still great. Seasons 3 and 4 continued the slide. It's no wonder the show was cancelled.
I love futurama December 11, 2007
James C. Kennedy Jr. (cincinnati, oh)
Fast delivery (it was supposed to be a 2 day delivery, but it was at my office the next morning! And I ordered it late in the afternoon!)
The Series Continues... December 9, 2007
T. Martagh
Volume two to the hit series Futurama. Even better than series one with off the wall audio commentaries. Matt Groening really out did himself when he created Futurama.
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