2009 · animation · comedy · sci-fi
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
Directed by Peter Avanzino1h 30m2009
Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, while Fry joins a secret society and attempts to stop a mysterious species known as the "Dark Ones" from destroying all life in the universe.
Our read: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
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