Hi folks. This is out soon. Any comments or nits feel free to place here!

Just got it. It's a hoot.

SPOILER:

The story focuses heavily on time travel and Leela and Amy get naked!

Whiting out as I'm responding to John's spoiler: This is hardly the first time Amy and Leela have appeared onscreen nude (Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? is a good example). Would I be correct in assuming that this time it's the variety which wouldn't be acceptable on network TV?

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Do we get to see Amy's tattoo? (Not the one we say in Three Hundred Big Boys)
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Answers:

Gordon: They only show Leela's & Amy's hineys.

ScottN: No, we don't get to read Amy's tattoo, but we do get to see Fry's tattoo.

Now for the first nit. After Bender is released from the obedience virus none of the earlier copies that are still under the virus' influence have the squiggle line eyes like he did with the virus, this is most notable at the very end of the movie.

Anyone want to hazard a bet that the next movie will start where this one finishes?

Very enjoyable. I actually thought someone would back in time and stop Hermes from ruining his body which is the event that sparked the whole thing in the first place.

I think Al Gore stole the show- "At last, I'm saving the world with giant lasers and not a slideshow!!"

Mr. Gore actually said "deadly lasers" not "giant lasers". Furthermore, the lasers seemed to be about the size of an ink pen, more or less. Hardly deserving the description of "giant".

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Box Network *snicker* Good to see there are no hard feelings. ;-)

Family Guy 12 laughs a year calendar.
Wow! That's more laughs than the entire series! ;-) (No, I don't like Family Guy.)

Nibbler seemed to know the danger posed by the tattoo before it was revealed, although how wasn't explained.

So why didn't Nibbler just eat the aliens?

A bureaucrat's brain in charge of a battle?
They should have lost. Bureaucrats only know how to clog things up & slow things down, not get things done.

Funny how the explosion ripped a hole on the back of his pants when he was lying on top of the explosion.

Where Fry's tattoo came from is a time loop.

Bureaucrat's brain complaint: I actually disagree with this, because it's Hermes that we're talking about. He's always been shown to have an extreme talent for organizing a lot of little things. (Yes, this sounds very minor, I know, but in the series, we've seen him do that sort of thing before.

Anti-Family Guy stuff: Well, that and the above is probably influenced by the fact that I am certainly in a political minority on this board, but I accept that. Still, a lot of people got on Seth McFarland's case for digging at Fox after they un-cancelled him. Groening's attack on Fox for the same thing at the beginning of this one made Seth McFarland look like a "forgive and forget type." Not that I'm complaining, I agree that neither show got a fair shot in their original run, but the "executive powder" running gag was a bit much.

Now the nits: (Just saw the movie for the first time a few days ago.)

Is it me, or did the Niblonians have a really bad showing this time around. Not only could Nibbler just have eaten the aliens as mentioned above, but they are supposed to be a significantly more advanced race technologically than humans. They should have given another reason why the scammer aliens took them out so easily.

For that matter, since when did Nibbler become such a coward?

The Scammers scam Farnsworth by convincing him he won the Spanish national lottery. In the background, there is a world government on Earth, modeled after the US government. Earlier in the series, they establish that French is a dead language. Would there even be a Spain anymore?

When Bender brings in the duplicate Benders, he says something along the lines of he "found them waiting around and had them come up earlier than they were supposed to." This brings up several nits:

1) Is it really in character for Bender to cooperate with anyone, even duplicates of himself? I'd expect him to rob them, not invite them up.

2) When they all come into the room at the same time, it boosts to "doom level" to the point when they start exploding, and the paradox causes a fault in the universe. If they were all waiting in the cavern under the building, shouldn't there already be enough paradox there to flaw the universe? Shouldn't they have started detonating then? Even if you say that it took one more Bender (the original one) to "push it over the line" so to speak, shouldn't that have happened when he met them in the caverns, not when he brought them upstairs?

This whole "doom level" and "doomed duplicates" thing is an interesting idea, but they are very inconsistent with it. The duplicate Scammer is crushed by the falling smelloscope almost immediately, and no one seems surprised by this. They constantly remind Hermes that his body is on borrowed time. It seems that they all agree that he's been surviving much longer than he would be expected to. So, it's something that happens relatively quick. They're all surprised how long Hermes lasts.
So what about the Fry/Lars duplicate? He survives for years, both in the past, and in the future, when he would be co-existing with the main Fry. In fact, when he does die, he essentially throws himself on a grenade *because he has already been told that he's doomed.* How long would he have survived otherwise? Seems he should have died a lot sooner.

Is Fry, as in the Fry who started the series dead? Seems that the current living Fry is a paradox duplicate. Is he doomed? Ditto for Bender.

Bender is introduced in the credits and Bender Rodriguez. This is correct. It was established in the original series that his last name is Rodriguez, but at the end of this one, they refer to him as "Bender the Robot" or such, as if that is his name.

The sword limbo scene also presents some problems. Hermes is very out of practice, apparently. We've seen him go under much lower things than the sword. Secondly, I forgot exactly how they referred to the sword, but it's either a long cutlass or a falchion. They didn't refer to it as either.

Did everyone forget the events of "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings."? It seemed hinted heavily at the end that Leela was definatly going to give Fry a chance, at least. Also, the Robot Devil was leading the band at Leela's wedding. Seems like there would certainly be some hard feelings there. So now that Leela has had a successful relationship with Fry as Lars, will they finally have a chance?

Leelu is referred to as a mutant tusked female Narwal. So far, so good. However, Fry says, "he likes things that have one thing where they should have two," referring to Leela. However, this makes no sense referring to narwals. Narwals are supposed to have only one tusk. There is a mutation that causes them to have two tusks, but it extremely rare. Thus, it's not a good comparison to Leela. She has a deficit. She has one eye, when normally she would have two. Leelu has an addition. She has one tusk, where, as a female narwal, she should have none. If she had two tusks, it would be even rarer. She would be a female tusked narwal (rare mutation) and a dual-tusked narwal (rare mutation) it still wouldn't have made sense, unless Fry said something like "I like things that have the wrong number of things instead of the things they're supposed to have." Which could have been easily a line in the tortured syntax, to which Fry is prone.

Farnsworth tries to sell his dooomsday devices to Hedonismbot to make ends meet. Apparently Hedonismbot still has money, and a lot of it. Did he not get scammed? If so, why isn't he around to fight off the scammers?

Did they even need to go to Neptune to get Santa Claus involved? Granted, they would have had to have waited until Xmas, but couldn't they just have stepped back, and waited for Santa to blow the Scammers into little bits for being "naughty?" The Scammers certainly don't seem like the type to hide, and Santa not only had evidence of them committing evil acts, but also *was personally angry at them.* He should have been chomping at the bit to fire some rockets at them.

Since when does Elzar's spiceweasel have heart-shaped nostrils?


And some NANJAO:

Groening can get very dark when he wants to, and either he or his sub-writers certainly got dark in this one. I found it interesting they constantly referenced the episode "Jurassic Bark" which was the darkest Futurama episode ever. (So dark, it turned into a bad episode. I always skip the re-runs.

Did the scammer aliens, with their ability to sense "information" seem rather Dr. Who-ish to anyone but me? In fact, did this entire movie seem a bit Dr. Who-ish?

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The Professor insists that time travel is impossible until he talks with the Globetrotters.

Has he forgotten the events of "Roswell that Ends Well"?

(OK, he probably did... Wha?)

ScottN--that was brought up in the movie, itself, when he was asked about Roswell right after he made that claim!

As established in an earlier episode, Nibbler was the one that forced Fry to be frozen to begin with! With multiple Frys and Benders appearing in the room within minutes after that action, where was Nibbler? (He was under the table). Nibbler would've especially been curious about the tattoo one of the Bender's put on Fry's butt (then again that may explain why Nibbler was worried when the aliens found the tattoo, even before it was established what the tattoo was).

Then, if that's the case, why didn't Nibbler make an effort to get rid of the tattoo all this time? (unless his species feared that getting rid of it might create another chain reaction and they didn't know?)

In past episodes, Nibbler makes an effort to wipe out the memories of those that know he's an intelligent species, yet throughout this episode he doesn't, and at the end leaves the Universe. Does this mean everyone knows about his species for now on?

For my last question, I just saw "Bender's Game" which actually addresses it!