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Dr. Boogie, I'm a big Futurama fan so I apologize if this post is too long.

I think you are a little harsh on the other movies. While they are of varying quality and I wouldn't rate any of them higher than a B I still feel I need to defend them.

I admit that BBS doesn't bring the funny as hard as the series but I still think there are a lot of great jokes (Kiss my front butt!). What really saves the movie though is its story. It mostly feels like a mix of The Why of Fry and The Luck of the Fryish/Jurassic Bark. It was exactly what fans needed to reintroduce us to the cast that we were all sad to see go. It also made sure to focus on the entire Planet Express crew rather than just the big three (one of the few failings of the series). The best parts of the movie are the Leeloo storyline and the awesome battle against the Gold Death Stars at the end (who couldn't love that!). The only real disappointment I had was that it screwed around with the stories of The Luck of the Fryish and Jurassic Bark. I didn't think that was necessary to tell its story.

I know you listed BWABB as the best of the worst but I think it is the simply the worst . While I will mention that the first chapter had me rolling off my seat (DeathBall and the Crackslam are awesome) the rest of the movie was absolutely terrible. Many of the Characters felt like they were replaced by Skull versions of themselves who looked and sort of acted the same as the PE Crew but with none of the charm or character development. Where as BBS knew that since the crew has known each other for 7 years and thus are great friends BWABB disregarded all that for an OOC story that was essentially one big date rape joke. What surprised me was that I tolerated the movie (and even liked it) until Yivo showed up. At that point the movie took a serious dip in quality. The first time I watched it I only laughed at one of his lines (the phone message after he disconnected from everybody). When you have David Cross record 40 lines for a character who is essentially a tribute to Japanese tentacle Hentai and only one line gets a laugh you screwed up.

Bender's Game was a lot better than BWABB. While I think that the LOTR chapters were the low point of the movie they made me laugh a hell of a lot more than the Yivo chapters of BWABB. Even though the crew doesn't like each other as much as in BBS they at least act like they would have in a series episode (although Leela's temper was fabricated to enormous proportions to fit the plot). I also think that the first half is a really great episode. Leela's Temper along with Benders inability to separate reality from fantasy along with the Truth about Dark Matter make a great episode that probably would have made a great movie if the writers had expanded upon those ideas rather than make a bunch of tired LOTR's jokes. Luckily, since BG is more like connected episodes than a movie you can actually skip the entire fantasy bit and have it still make sense (just pretend that Igner told the professor his secret in the Nibblonian chamber and ignore that the rest of the crew "magically" appeared in Mom's Lair).

Phew! I hope that didn't drain you. I just wanted to present my thoughts on what I thought were two pretty decent movies (and one bad one).

On topic, I have to agree with you that ITWGY is the best movie of the series (and in my opinion one of the best episodes). We're back to the close crew of BBS and especially some development between Fry and Leela. Both the New Mars Vegas and The Purple Dwarf Star Segments are expertly written and very funny. If the show returns I hope that all the episodes can be as good as this movie.

P.S. I was purposefully vague about ITWGY so as not to ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet (looking at you Kilgore. You are in for a real treat).