The director: The Coen Brothers
The cast: William H Macy is Phil Fry, delivery boy.
Frances McDormand plays Mom, the outwardly benevolent owner of Mom’s Old Fashioned Robot Oil, who turns out to be a fascistic freak lady with three goofy henchmen/sons.
The plot: Quirk and quick-fire repartee is the name of the game as the Coens go SF.
Most of the characters remain the same as in the cartoon, since they’re pretty much perfect fits for Coen types anyway.
We follow Fry on a typical mission where everything seems to go wrong for him – he loses the cargo, gets told off by the professor (JK Simmons) and loses the love of Leela when she’s swept off her feet by the sleazy Zapp Brannigan (George Clooney).
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ebrown2112
Jun 19th 2009, 12:06
Wow, no Scorsese? Something to do with mobsters. Fry : Leonardo Di Caprio Leela: Angelina Jolie Prof. Farnsworth: Daniel Day-Lewis (heavily made up) Bender: Joe Pesci (voice) Zoidberg: Alan Arkin Hermes: Jeffrey Wright Zapp Branigan: Alec Baldwin Amy: Zhang Ziyi Kif: Rob Corddry Scruffy: Kevin Conway Calculon: Robert De Niro
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AYBGerrardo
Jun 22nd 2009, 5:09
"Larry David is Professor Farnsworth" Truer words were never spoken...
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FBBChuprin
Sep 26th 2011, 18:47
http://bcman.narod.ru/Mid_Futu.jpg there we go: Futurama with real actors !
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