Good news, everyone! I’ve been waiting for this day since the final episode of Futurama aired in late 2003. I had always hoped that this day would come and here it is. I swung by Best Buy on my way home from work today and when the friendly, yet persistently annoying yellow shirt at the front door asked me if there was anything he could help me find. I promptly answered no, as I could already see Bender’s eyes staring out at me from an entire row of DVDs in the front aisle of the store, right where it should be. I grabbed my copy and was promptly in a short line waiting to pay. I finally had it. Fresh off the press, brand new Futurama. Now, enough of my mindless dribble and on to the actual review.

What can I say, it was great. Really, it was beyond great. I have no doubts that part of what made it a phenomenal movie was the anticipation, but even having watched it a second time, it’s still incredible. It fits perfectly with previous episodes of Futurama and fulfills any expectations I had of the movie. As with every previous episode the humor ranges from slapstick to extremely intelligent and the entire film is filled with quotable lines which I’m sure will be a part of my regular speech in due time. The dialog and plot were extremely well-written and the cameos that one has come to love and expect in the series were awesome and, in all instances, hilarious. Without spoiling anything, I can say that Al Gore had a few lines in the film that had me literally laughing out loud. Beyond the constant humor, great cameos, and well written plot, the tie-ins with previous episodes in the series were very well done and fit in perfectly with the episode. I could probably continue to go on about how impressed I am with the return of Futurama, but I’ll let you go back to whatever it was you were doing before you decided to read this.

Final thoughts? Go buy a copy. It’s worth it. In fact, buy two. Give one to a friend.