Futurama: Leela and the Encyclopods

Movie
German title	Futurama: Leela and the Encyclopods
Original title	Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2009
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Peter Avanzino
script	Michael Rowe
production	Lee Supercinski Claudia Katz
music	Christopher Tyng
cut	Paul D. Calder
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Futurama: Bender's Game Successor  → rebirth

Futurama: Leela and Enzyklopoden (Original title: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder ) is an American science fiction - Cartoons from the year 2009 , which on the television series Futurama is based. It is the last of four films that together make up the fifth production and sixth season of the series. It was released in the United States and Canada on February 24, 2009 as a direct-to-DVD production initially for the home theater market, in the United Kingdom the day before, and in Germany the DVD was released on March 20, 2009. The The world premiere was on February 6, 2009 at a comic book convention in New York City .

The film was designed as the series finale, as it was not yet clear whether there would be other seasons. In early June 2009, however, the production company 20th Century Fox confirmed that they are working on a new season with 26 episodes, which premiered on July 24, 2010.

Guest actors are Phil Hendrie , Penn & Teller , Snoop Dogg and Seth MacFarlane , who sings the theme song.

The work received an Annie Award in 2009.

action

The Planet Express crew visits Amy's wealthy parents Leo and Inez, who are busy tearing down the "old" Mars Vegas and building a more extravagant new one. A group of eco-feminists protests against the environmental degradation it causes, leading to an accident in which a piece of jewelery shaped like a Venus symbol gets into Fry's head. Leela saves a leech , the last of its kind, because the remaining specimens of its species were wiped out during the construction work. To compensate Fry for the accident, Leo invites Fry to a poker tournament and gives the rest of the crew a vacation. The trinket in his head enables Fry to read minds. Only when he puts on an aluminum hat does he not hear the other voices. Despite his new skill, Fry does not win the poker tournament because Bender has the "lucky foot" of the mafia robot Donbot, which gives him incredible luck.

After the tournament, Fry gets to know the secret society of mind-reading mud pears. They tell him about two ancient opponents in the universe, the encyclopedias and the dark ones. The dark want to destroy all life, the encyclopedias keep it. Fry is given the task of protecting the last egg of an encyclopod, a dwarf star, from destruction. Unfortunately Leo Wong wants to blow this star to build an intergalactic mini golf course .

While Leela joins the eco-feminists, Fry sneaks into Leo as a security inspector with the help of his mind reading. Leela gradually manages to convince Amy and the rest of Planet Express as well. But Leo is still planning his intergalactic mini golf course. In his capacity as security inspector, Fry receives the dubious honor of pulling the trigger for the demolition in a solemn ceremony. He receives a warning from the mud pears that in the crucial seconds one of the dark ones will be there to ensure the destruction of the dwarf star.

At the ceremony it finally turns out that Leela's leech, which she always carries around with her, is the last representative of the dark. He is rendered harmless and eventually killed. The dwarf star is prevented from exploding. Immediately afterwards, an encyclopedia develops from the star, a huge creature living in space, which outwardly resembles a ray and houses a few copies of all extinct species.

To prevent the demolition, the Planet Express team has to flee from the law enforcement officers in the form of Zapp Brannigan. You are giving yourself a chase. Fry and Leela confess their love to each other. To escape their pursuers, they finally fly into a wormhole that suddenly appears, into an uncertain future.

production

The Futurama team began work on the film back in 2006, when union issues affected production. Producer Lee Supercinski According to the notice Futurama -Studio to the animatic of the film of the Rough Draft Studios until two weeks before the deadline of the Writers Guild of America gets. As a result, the authors were forced to look through the script without seeing the entire animatic. The Futurama studio got the finished animated film in June 2008, weeks before a new strike forecast, forcing the writers to re-check the script without seeing the film in full.

Knowing that Leela and the Encyclopods could be the final Futurama episode overall, the writers built in numerous references to this fact. The title screen displays the message: " The Humans Shall Not Defeat Us " ( People must we not defeat ), according to Cohen a defiant taunt regarding the possible end of the series. In the middle of the film there is a take outside the Planet Express building with a banner that says. “ Going Out Of Business Forever! Again! "( Business retirement! Again! ) Hangs, a reference to the first end of production in 2003. There is also a reference in a scene to the first episode of Futurama in which Professor Farnsworth takes off Hermes' and Zoidberg's career chips.

As a thank you for the fans, there is a scene in which up to 250 characters can be seen on the screen, including many smaller roles from the 72 episodes and the 4 feature films. However, there are no children (such as Cubert Farnsworth) removed when the production team noticed Morbo mention that there were no children present. In the DVD commentary, producer David X. Cohen says that Rough Draft Studios in Korea got a higher premium for this scene because of the difficulty in animating it.

The opening music is a Frank Sinatra- style piece sung by Seth MacFarlane , creator of Family Guy and American Dad , while the Planet Express ship flies over the casinos of Mars Vegas.

synchronization

see: Futurama # synchronization

Guest appearances

actor	role
Tress MacNeille	Fanny
David Herman	Number 9 Man
Snoop Dogg	he himself
Phil Hendrie	Frida Waterfall Hutch Waterfall The Encyclopod
Seth MacFarlane	Mars Vegas Singer
Penn & Teller	herself

publication

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on February 24, 2009 .

Awards

The film won the 2009 Annie Award in the Best Home Entertainment Production category.

Web links

• Futurama: Leela and Enzyklopoden in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Futurama: Leela and the encyclopedias in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate of the FSK  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed September 25, 2015.  
2. ↑ Seijas, Casey: Live from New York Comic Con! Fans Treated To Futurama World Premiere . ugo.com. February 6, 2009. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 5, 2009. 
3. ^ Nellie Andreeva, June 9, 2009: Comedy Central resurrects 'Futurama' on hollywoodreporter.com
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Futurama: Leela and the Encyclopedia Commentary , 20th Century Fox. 
5. ↑ White, James: Film features: 9 Odd Things We Now Know About Futurama . Totalfilm.com. February 20, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2009.
6. ↑ Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder DVD. In: Blu-ray.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder Blu-ray. In: Blu-ray.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012 . 
8. ^ List of 2009 Annie Award nominees and laureates. (No longer available online.) The International Animated Film Society , archived from the original on December 4, 2009 ; accessed on February 7, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.