The most interesting thing about Fox’s latest animated show, Futurama, is that it’s not very interesting… The pilot is flat-out unfunny.
It whips along at a cracking pace, fueled by spanking new ideas, smart one-liners, visual gags and the obligatory cheeky references.
Futurama is funny, sometimes hilarious. But you can put your brain in neutral for the whole enjoyable trip.
Episode 7: While making a delivery to a planet of liquid beings Fry accidentally drinks the Emperor. Drinking the Emperor? I’d say...
Futurama is definitely a Groening creation. The characters have the same bug-eyed, chinless faces and the sensibility is mildly anarchic and a...
New York Times December 8, 2017 If those 15 producers and their countless associates can bolster their good intentions with some more comic fire, this richly drawn show...
Groening again shows his talent for split-level wit which caters alternately to adults and children. Futurama will never match the international im...
The series' success will depend less on the Jetsons-style sight gags than on the characters' personalities, which, for now, aren’t nearly as...
content.time.com December 7, 2017 The show lacks the vision of The Simpsons, the snappy rhythm and the kind of far-reaching humor that keep it dizzyingly smart even after a dec...
It’s not quite the revelation that The Simpsons was, but Futurama contains enough inventiveness and heart to make it a worthy follow-up.
The wait was worth it. Although the pilot, setting up the story, seems slightly thin, Futurama promises to give Groening a new forum for his t...
Much as I’d love to despise the spawn of someone whose works intrude so rudely on what might once have passed for imaginative, individual, ci...
Let others drool in anticipation of the forthcoming Star Wars prequel. Force, schmorce: we’ll happily settle for the adventures of Fry and hi...
It has taken Matt Groening a full decade to create a followup series to his reliably riotous series, The Simpsons, but his new effort which is...
It’s too bad sci-fi fan Stanley Kubrick didn’t live to see Groening’s gloriously vibrant deconstruction of 2001: A Space Ody...
This widely anticipated series falls short of The Simpsons in two respects: It isn’t especially funny. And the characters aren’t that a...
It isn’t even quite the "Jetsons With Attitude" that we might have expected. But the animation is richly textured, and there are enough irrev...
Thanks to Matt Groening’s freewheeling, signature impertinence, Futurama is a fresh jolt of astute cartoon lampoon.
Besides the spotty writing, the overriding problem with Futurama is that the show really isn’t satire (What are we to relate to? That the New...
Futurama gets off to a slick, fast start, with plenty of the sly asides and visual gimmicks that make The Simpsons so watchable.
Groening, working with David X. Cohen… shows he has learned the most important Simpsons lesson well: The more human the backdrop, the better t...
The premiere has the wonderfully distinctive geekiness but not the toothy bite of "The Simpsons," which was something spectacular to behold from th...
Futurama makes for spectacularly conventional, unimaginative sci-fi. And it’s barely funny, even for a pilot or the more narrowly focuse...