BEFORE: Futurama's 2nd feature-length movie, out of 4. I don't see how these 90-minute storylines would have made up the show's 5th season, unless they were each designed to be edited down into 3 (or 4?) half-hour shows, each ending with "To Be Continued..."
THE PLOT: A planet-sized, tentacle alien takes over the Earth and convinces the inhabitants of Earth to abandon the Earth to live in a pseudo-heaven, leaving the robots of the world to inherit the planet.
AFTER: Eh, the story's more than a little lame, even though it's a logical progression from the previous film - the mucking with the timestream in the last film caused a rift between universes, which is what allows the multi-tentacled alien to gain control of Earth.
The gender-neutral alien (which wants to be called "Sklee" instead of "he" or "she") has enough love (and tentacles) for everyone on Earth. The comic twist comes when everyone realizes this alien wants to mate with them, so the alien has to go on a "date" with the population of Earth first...I did not see that coming.
Even though watched quite a few "Alien invasion" films, which is a genre that's ripe for parody, I didn't find this to be as funny as Futurama's take on time-travel paradoxes. Since Bender isn't human, he's given a robot sub-plot that just seems like killing time until he's important to the main plot again.
I guess there's a point to be made about jealousy - Fry hooks up with a girlfriend near the beginning, and she has 4 other boyfriends - Kif is jealous of Amy (with good reason) and Bender saves the day when he gets jealous of the giant alien. So, jealousy is good? Is that really the message?
With voice cameos from David Cross, Stephen Hawking (even in the future, he's an a-hole...) and Brittany Murphy
RATING: 5 out of 10 arcade games
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