While the name of Tobe Hooper does not carry the cachet it once did, he still deserves his place amongst the modern masters of horror with the likes of Romero, Argento, Craven, and Cronenberg. Hooper, having never been able to equal the raw energy and success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre...and never being able to do so in the future...definitely has regained his form with this version of The Toolbox Murders. On the surface I thought I was going to sit through some lame rehashing of an older horror film, but I found myself pleasantly surprised with this high energy, suspenseful, stylish, well-acted film. Evil lurks in the old and dilapidated Lusman Arms, an aging apartment building in severe disrepair with renovation abounding all over. The film opens with a rainy evening and a blonde woman getting the point of the film hammered into her skull. Next, we meet a young couple moving into the apartment building. Beautiful and talented Angela Bettis plays the protagonist of the film as a woman who realizes people are disappearing around her and that the Lusman Arms has some major secrets as well as a demented killer hidden in its walls. Much of the film involves her unraveling of the Arms's secrets, though no full explanation as to how the black arts is incorporated is ever explained. The film is tightly woven from beginning to end by the consummate work of Hooper who knows how to use the camera and gets the most from a largely unknown cast. The actors are peppered with some movie veterans such as Rance Howard giving one heck of a good performance as a man that has lived there virtually his whole life, Juliet Landau as a running girl "headed" for trouble, and the wonderful Greg Travis as the guy in charge of the apartments. Travis had me in stitches with his dialog about the charm of old places like this, etc... Hooper works with some interesting, inventive, and implausible storyline, but he makes the most of it. Here and there Hooper plays homage to others, like the scene where Bettis and husband find old teeth in the wall. An obvious salute to Roman Polanski's The Tenant. While not a great film, The Toolbox Murders delivers. It shows just enough blood without going overboard and has just enough humour in it to balance the unpleasantness of the plot. I was pleasantly surprised on all counts.


This is such a great horror-film, and it has some original-twists to it too. The story centers-around the "Lusman Arms" (really the Ambassador Hotel, once THE place for the Hollywood elite and the site of the RFK assassination), a decaying-Hotel in a seedy part of Los Angeles. It seems after recent-renovations to the structure of the building there have been some strange-occurrences: a workman hurt in an unexplained-blast, and strange electrical-surges. There is a constant-sound of hammering, even when the workmen are gone. Tenants have gone-missing, and a strange aura of oppressiveness has descended-upon the building. It seems the place has a reputation that the building manager (a concierge) doesn't want known. It's just a great film, with a bunch of oddball-characters, unlike the log-jam of boring, PG-13 pseudo-horror. The characters in this film feel real, and I like them. Because I like them, I fear for them, and that is what horror is about.

Enter Nell (Angela Bettis of "May") and Steven, two new tenants. We get to know them and some of their backstory, and the decaying-Lusman is literally filled with oddities. For those who have lived in a 1920s-era apartment building, a lot of the funny-parts about maintenance (or the lack-of) will be familiar! If you have ever lived in an old-building, you can attest to the impressions of the past within-the-walls. The ghosts of "old Hollywood" haunt this film, just like they do the films of David Lynch or Kenneth Anger. Let's face it, with the legend of the Black Dahlia (mentioned in the film), the constant-battle for the control of the water-supply (an engineer once controlled L.A. His name was William Mulholland, and designed the Owens Valley Acqueduct), the Manson Family, gangs, poverty, the desert air, all the Hollywood deaths and scandals, cults, Scientology, the Mexican Day of the Dead, Chinatown, drugs, the Ramparts scandals, decades of obscene-corruption--Los Angeles is creepy.

Nell notices a lot of hammering and other strange-phenomena, and eventually begins to probe the mystery of the Lusman Arms. This descent-into-hell is what makes this not merely a slasher, but an Occult-horror piece. The Lusman has a strange, esoteric architecture and a storied-past. It also has mysterious symbols covering it's walls in key-locations. The logical-sequence of room numbers are missing some rooms. Some have commented that the symbols are "Masonic", even calling the film "Masonic-horror", which is false and misleading. The symbols are ancient, and have been around for thousands of years, and most should be familiar. I noticed absolutely nothing "Masonic" in the film whatsoever, which is odd. I guess they were reviews by Nazi-skinheads.

The best-part of this story is that it connects the enigmatic-tale of Jack Parsons, an occultist Crowley-devotee who founded the Jet-Propulsion Lab, being an early rocketeer. It is said that Parsons claimed to have created an "homunculus", an artificial human-being, so there is a genuine-connection with L.A.'s strange-relationship with occultism here. Parsons blew-himself-up in an alchemical experiment in the late-1940s--exactly where the "Lusman-mythos" begins. Without Jack Parsons, there would be no Scientology: L. Ron Hubbard ripped-him-off in a business-deal and used the money to fund the publishing of "Dianetics". I think the occult-backstory of the killer was Tobe Hooper's idea, and it really draws-you-in. "Occult" comes from archaic-Greek, and merely denotes "hidden", nothing-more. There are many hidden-secrets at the Lusman.

The murderer in the film is great, and one could consider it Parson's homunculus in-a-way, though the "coffin-birth" masks this element. I actually thought the "coffin-baby" backstory was interesting, and had the ring of occult-lore to it. Frankly, I would have to agree with some reviewers--if you aren't familiar with occultism, you aren't going to get a lot of the premise here. So, get-familiar kids, study the occult, hah-hah. Nonetheless, it's still a film you can watch superficially, enjoying the many mysteries that Hooper and his writers treat us to. Also, the murders-themselves are pretty original and thrilling, some even gruesome in a way that would do Argento proud! Go-figure, reality isn't what you thought it was! Without giving-away too much, this is a tale of the undead, kept-active by sacred-geometry in the structure of a building. It is a story of the darkness and mystery that surrounds-us, and a story of magic and curiosity. There are so-many incredible images of horror in this film, it is just excellent and intriguing. With a budget of less-than $1 million, Tobe Hooper has created a new classic horror that is likely to be imitated. It is surely "better" than the original film, and is simply his and his writers' take on the source (with major-revisions and additions). It is a re-imagining. The score by Joseph Conlan is very good, and atmospheric, hitting all the right marks. It makes the film feel larger. Toolbox Murders has a lot on-offer for such a little film, and is a great return-to-form for Mr. Hooper. Here's to more from him.


At an apartment complex in Hollywood, a couple named Nell (Angela Bettis) and her husband Steven (Brent Roam) move in as they meet some friendly and not-too-friendly neighbors. It was once a place for the stars to live along time ago until weird stuff began happening with mysterious disappearances years ago. A homicidal maniac uses weapons of any kind from drill to hammer begins killing off some of the residents one by bloody one and secrets from the past are coming back.

Co-starring Sherri Moon Zombie, Juliet Landau, Christopher Doyle and Adam Weisman, this is a nifty reimagining of the low budget "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" wannabe known as "The Toolbox Murders" but this one is directed by horror maestro Tobe Hooper. Hooper really admired the original as the best rip-off of his masterpiece he'd ever seen and decided to update it for a new generation. I gotta say how pleasantly surprised i was at this new version from an artist as he improved on the material very nicely. Much like the original it has it's use of buzz-saws, drills, hammering and gore galore but very done well! the acting is quite decent and the story has much improved.

It's an old-school style remake that i highly recommend.


Although I write in this commentary solely about the building in which the horrible crimes are happening, notice that this is already a spoiler - if not THE spoiler of the whole movie. This is why I "flagged" this text.

It is not by change that the candidates for "haunted houses" are exclusively old buildings. "This house is history, and you are a part of it", the maintenance supervisor says in Tobe Hooper's "Toolbox Murders" (2003). Practically only old houses possess these creaky beams, that stale odor that comes out of the walls, the characteristic noise when the wind presses against the windows, the howling of an old elevator, etc. But that is not all. Before the unfortunate functionalism started to make Tabula Rasa with each trace of architectural generosity, houses often had strange hollow parts in the walls, little closets that lead wide into nowhere, "crawling spaces" between ceiling and next higher floor, mysterious huge and sometimes more-level attics and cellars, etc. And so it is in "Toolbox Murders": "There is a whole townhouse in this building", the historian in the movie says. It turns out that from each apartment there is a little space lacking, but so that these parts are connected by a steep stairwell in the wall of the house. (Note: The building is not the Ambassador Hotel, as indicated in IMDb. The Ambassador Hotel was torn down two years before the movie was shot.)


In this re-working of a sleazy slasher favorite from 1978, the tenants at Lusman Arms, an aged Hollywood motel that has clearly seen much better days, are being brutally slaughtered. Nell (a likable Angela Bettis in a decent starring turn) and husband Steven (Brent Roam) are new to the building. She becomes quite wary of the place almost immediately, and becomes especially concerned when Julia (Juliet Landau, daughter of Martin), a friendly new acquaintance, disappears. Nell starts investigating the building and discovers parts of it that she didn't know existed, and before long, she's terrorized by the killer.

Hooper returns to form with this well-made and nasty piece of work. The seedy and depressing ambiance of this run-down wreck of a building is captured quite well on film. Hooper and crew establish an ominous mood immediately and maintain it. They keep the lighting low and levels of darkness high. There's an intriguing level of mystery to the script and the killer as well. It's a true horror picture all the way through.

The slow pacing of some scenes (as Nell goes on her "haunted house walk") may make some viewers a little impatient, but what could really disappoint them is that for the absolute brutality of the murders, levels of on-screen gore aren't as high as one might expect. (Not that there aren't some nice highlights, like the head-sawed-in-half gag.) Also, there's at least one red herring that's a little too obvious, and the clichéd ending detracts from the overall effectiveness.

Still, the movie works as a nice combination of atmosphere, oppressiveness, and mystery. Bettis receives particularly good support from Landau, Rance Howard (father of Ron and Clint) as the aged and solicitous Chas, and Greg Travis as the expectantly sleazy landlord Byron. Sheri Moon, best known for her work in husband Rob Zombie's movies, plays an early victim.

Proof that Hooper does still have what it takes to make a genuinely good horror film, "Toolbox Murders" delivers good chills for a solid 95 minutes.

7/10


I'm not much a Tobe Hooper fan. Aside from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Salem's Lot I haven't liked any of his movies (unless you want to give him credit for Poltergeist). I therefore wasn't expecting much when I picked up his remake of The Toolbox Murders.

I haven't seen the original, so I can't say how this remake compares, but on its own, this movie is a winner. A young couple moves into a rat trap old building in Hollywood. He's an intern and is gone most of the time leaving Nell Barrows with too much time on her hands. She finds out some strange things about the building's history and unbeknownst to all, somebody is murdering the tenants.

Right from the beginning when the camera is filming through a sheet of plastic in the rain, it manages to give off a downright unsettling atmosphere. A fantastic job was done lighting the creepy old building, making every shadow seem threatening. Everything feels old, grimy and unpleasant. The music is surprisingly good. There is the usual 'string swell' to make you jump, but otherwise it works well to ratchet up your nerves. The whole movie is an exercise in tension.

Really the only bad part about this movie is the whole 'toolbox murders' gimmick. The story really stands on its own and is good enough without the different tool for each murder shtick. If the killer just used a knife or something, that would have worked just as well. It felt like they needed to throw in the unusual murder weapons to keep the name.

Still, this was a pretty good movie. I'd recommend it to fans of old fashioned '70's and '80's horror movies. They don't make many like this any more.


Myrna Loy was never lovelier than she is in this surprisingly sophisticated and mature 1936 film.

Though billed as a screwball comedy, the movie has much more than screwball comedy on its mind. Loy plays wife to Clark Gable, a successful business exec who spends much of his time at the office with his irreplaceable secretary, played by Jean Harlow. Loy completely trusts her husband until a seed of doubt is planted in her mind by her cynical mother-in-law (May Robson). The film examines the idea of trust in marriage, and it's honest about the nature of infidelity. In a fascinating scene that takes place between Gable and Harlow in a Haitian hotel, the film suggests that the key to making relationships work lies not in avoiding temptation (which it also suggests is impossible anyway), but in knowing how to say "no" to it when it arrives.

Gable and Loy have as much chemistry together as Loy did with William Powell, her other frequent co-star, and Jean Harlow is as cute as I've ever seen her. I don't normally like her much, but I liked her in this as much as I've ever liked her in anything else. There are no good guys or bad guys in this movie; Gable isn't a cad and Harlow isn't a floozy. The three just play normal people navigating the tricky waters of male/female relations.

This one's a winner.

Grade: A


The title suggests a comedy, but it's more like a fluffy drama about a woman who starts to become jealous when her husband lavishes too much attention on his secretary. It's fairly well done, but perhaps it would have worked better as a comedy. The cast is stellar. Gable is charming in typical role of the virile male who makes the ladies swoon. Loy is wonderful as the loving wife, a role she played often. Harlow is effectively subdued as the devoted secretary. Stewart, in only his fifth film, shows the screen persona that would soon carry him to super stardom. Unfortunately, all this star power is undermined by the mediocre script.


Quite simply: I love this movie.

Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow give wonderful performances as participants in a love triangle that never really gets off the ground. That's actually one of my favorite things about this movie (the fact that Whitey and Van never become romantically involved). It's easy to see that there is an attraction there, but I think the fact that they never become involved makes this a better movie.

It would have been so easy to write this as the stereotypical man-has-affair-with-secretary movie and to make the character of Whitey the stereotypical man hunting secretary. It was especially refreshing to see Jean Harlow play such an understated and intelligent role. The character of Whitey also has a heart and this is shown perfectly when she tells Linda to go back to Van or she (Whitey) won't turn him away when he turns to her.

Gable played the role of Van perfectly. It's obvious that Van is head over heels in love with his wife yet (most notably in the Havana motel room scene) you can also see that he's fighting an attraction to Whitey. I don't think that attraction to Whitey would ever have won out over his devotion to Linda, but it was obvious he would turn to Whitey when Linda filed for divorce.

Myrna Loy gave a solid (if one note) performance as Linda. (That's not her fault, though, it's how the character was written.) I'm not sure how it could have been done, but this movie would have been even better if Loy had been given even better material.

The costumes and set decorations in this movie were top notch. Both Loy and Harlow wore stunning costumes that were always appropriate to their character (Loy the wife of a wealthy businessman and Harlow the lower class secretary). The apartment of Van and Linda was impeccably furnished and I especially loved the touch of having windows by the upper portion of the curved staircase.

On a completely shallow note, the party scene where Gable dances with both Loy and Harlow is my favorite scene in the movie. He's so smooth, so effortless and so dashing on the dance floor. I was definitely born a generation too late.


this is one very well done film.i wouldn't say it is a comedy,but it certainly is a romance/drama.either way.it's very well written,with snappy dialogue,and great acting by all concerned.there are some real acting heavyweights of the time here.Clark Gable is the headliner,and it's no wonder he was a star.the guy oozes screen presence and charisma even on the small scree.Jean Harlow,called the the ultimate and first true sex symbol sex symbol by some(but also a very talented actress)lends great supporting talent.Myrna Loy(Nora Charles from the Thin Man series of movies,co starring William Powell)is also excellent.James Stewart shows glimmers of his greatness,in a fairly small role,only his fourth credited feature film appearance.there are so many other great supporting players in the cast too numerous to mention.when you have talent like this together,it's hard to have bad film.for me,Wife vs Secretary is a strong 8/10


"Wife vs. Secretary" is a warm and touching movie about the business world in 1936. It seems farfetched because many people were still struggling after the depression. It showed the public how some CEO's lived in luxurious apartments, have art deco offices, and visited mansions and exotic lands for business.

What's nice is to see Jean Harlow as a regular person who is a secretary to the CEO, Clark Gable, who is married to Myra Loy. True is seems unbelievable these glamorous people could be part of the business world but this is Hollywood's version. And to top that, Harlow has a young James Stewart as a struggling boyfriend. What luck!

It's a fun and thoughtful movie to watch - thanks to the director, Clarence Brown, and the screenwriters. It would have been a different movie without the Production Code of 1934 and not as good.


In this film with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow is not, for once, portrayed as a dumb blonde.

Instead she shines as the very intelligent secretary for Clark Gable. And she never looked more beautiful. Her hair is not the platinum blonde of so many of her pictures but instead a darker blonde.

In one of his first film roles James Stewart as the beleaguered boyfriend of Jean Harlow is wonderful, patient and kind.

There really isn't too much of a story but it doesn't really matter.

The cattiness of the crowd that Clark Gable and Myrna Loy run with is unbelievable -- you want to shout at the gossips to GET A LIFE.

Every aspect, except the story, of this 1936 film are really very fine.

It's hard to find but if you see it on the video store shelves be sure and rent it.


I give this 7 out of 10. I love American movies made during the 1930's. They are smart but funny. The female roles are strong but vulnerable. Perhaps it is because of the Depression Era but whatever it is, the movies were made with certain something that made them special. I found this movie to be more realistic than I had anticipated. The outcome may or may not be satisfactory to some, including myself but it was still entertaining, although I certainly could see it going the other way. Whatever the case, I highly suggest renting or buying it and seeing it for yourself.

In this story, Clark Gable plays a president of a publishing empire, who is in love with his wife, played by Myrna Lloyd. Gable has a secretary, played by Jean Harlow, who becomes an indispensable part of his company. Lloyd's character has no qualms about Gable and Harlow working late at night until her friends and family member put seeds of doubt on Gable and Harlow's relationship. Lloyd tries to put faith and trust in their relationship but subsequent events put that trust into doubt. All of the parties involved now have to decide what course of action to take which will forever alter their lives.


Not much of a story, but with a cast that consists of Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, James Stewart and Jean Harlow, who cares?


I am a HUGE fan of classic films and brother, this one just ain't one.

This clunker runs on TCM quite often and it gets worse with each viewing. This movie is the 1936 equivalent of an episode of "Three's Company" where a blatant misunderstanding and circumstances that are ridiculous are supposed to make us forget the contrived nature of the plot.

I've never understood the attraction to Jean Harlow and Gable is absolutely awful in this. Myrna Loy is the only bright light in this weak tale that limps along for it's 3.5 hour running time (at least that's how long it feels).

Even the title to this is bad.

This is definitely one of those movies to watch if the doctor gives you six months to live, 'cause you'll wish you were dead.


I saw this movie for one reason--Bela Lugosi. He was not the star of the film, but Ricardo Cortez--a man, who like Lugosi, was in a very lean time in his career--being forced to appear in lesser and lesser films. Both of the men were a long way from their glory days but both dealt with it in a very, very different way. Cortez would soon quit Hollywood and establish a very successful career on Wall Street. Lugosi, conversely, left Universal after this film and began appearing in even crappier films for smaller studios--the so-called "Poverty Row" studios such as Monogram.

This film is an oddity because it's both a crime movie AND musical! Cortez investigates various scams that go through the mail. Eventually his path took him to Lugosi and a pretty young singer that works for him (Patricia Ellis). None of it was particularly great--and I found myself dozing off again and again.

If you are looking for a horror film or a movie that is going to offer some thrills, try another movie. The film isn't terrible...just not all that great, either.


In movie history we have many different styles of movies. Action, adventure, mystery, suspense, and of course children's films. Sadly, Andy and the Airwave Rangers is neither of these. What genre is Andy and the Airwave Rangers? The genre is known simply as "horrible".

This has to be the worst movie I've ever seen. First of all, the story is about a kid who watches a magic HVS tape and then sets off on an adventure to something called the "colordome" to save someone, or something. Then all hell breaks loose and he's forced to team up with people from different movies and ages, like warriors and princesses and whatnot.

The funny thing about this movie, though, is the weird cinematography and sets. In one scene, we see a high quality set, Andy is hiding out on a starship. The film quality is good and we can see the characters, except for Andy's actual face. It's always darkened by shadows and whatnot. Then when we cut to close-ups of Andy's face, we are in a big, extremely fake looking set with a whole different video quality, with Andy sitting behind one metallic prop, with an orange light in the background to make it seem "starshipp-y". It's almost as if the original Andy didn't want to be in the film, and many close-up scenes were re-shot with another person playing Andy.

Besides that, there's not much to this movie. Don't show it to your children, lest they kill themselves. AVOID AVOID AVOID AVOID.


Some people throw around the term "worst movie ever" but I don't. Not since I was 10. When I was 10, I saw this movie. At that age, I had digested a lot of bad movies and television (like the Small Wonder sitcom... any sitcom... and movies like Plan 9 and Howard The Duck) but watching this movie was the first time that I had ever pressed the fast-forward button on my VCR because what I was watching was so bad and I wanted it to end. My high tolerance to worthless trash was put to the test and failed. It started near the beginning, when I pressed the fast-forward button because Andy was going to the video store on his bike and they just showed gratuitous shots of his determined face and peddling feet for SO LONG that I began to doubt that there was an end to it. And then when he left the video store, they showed more minutes-on-end of Andy just peddling home. Was this supposed to be entertainment? I would've tolerated it if there were some credits over the imagery, but it was already 15 minutes into the movie. All I remember about the movie was that he went to the video store and met some creepy guy and rented a silver videotape and went home to his sister and when his sister watched the video, she was sucked into the t.v. and he went in after her to find her with his magic remote and they traveled through the channels and battled the villain, who turned out to be the creepy guy from the video store. What an amazingly original plot! Everything else is a blur and I'm guessing that I repressed the rest of the movie, even though I watched it a few more times in simple shock that it was so bad, even by my lax standards. And I would see if I could watch the whole thing without hitting fast-forward or stop/eject. I have since forgotten everything after Andy goes into the television, except for a few fuzzy details. This movie shocked me with its lameness when I was 10, which really says something about how it sucks. Stay away!


My son LOVES this film. I've also given it to nephews and the children of friends. It's geared to kids in the age range of 4-8 and not adults - although I thought it was cute the first time I watched. However, my son watches it over and over and knows all the words by heart so it's great for hours of video "babysitting." The idea of going inside his TV and having an adventure particularly seems to appeal to him. There's also a nice moral at the end about little brothers and sisters.


Something bothered me about this film, it's all pieced together from other Corman movies. I guess you could call it a new movie... but I wouldn't. Using the "amazing" Blue Screen technology, Corman takes you through a pointless adventure with a Soap Opera budget. This IS the worst movie ever. I usually enjoy bad movies, but this goes far beyond that- NOT at all enjoyable. There's a villain that lives in a magic videotape that is trying to steal every shade of color. He has a castle that looks like spinning umbrella. This is so stupid... believe me. Even a 2 year old should not see this movie, it would be child abuse. I tried to burn the videotape after watching it, but it rejected fire. Save yourself the effort and just rent Battle Beyond the Stars. That way, you'll see all of the "good" footage that was used in this movie.


Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure or Andy and the Airwave Rangers is a very unusual film. The acting by all of the actors is very good especially by Bo Svenson and Chuck Kovacic. The action and stuff is good. The movie is filmed very good but yet very unusual.The music is good. The film is very interesting and it is exciting. This is a good and different film. In My opinion I UI think that this film doesn't deserve the bad comments and the low rating. Why? This is a very unique 80s film and I think of this film as a rare gem of the era and not a bad flick at all. If you like Bo Svenson and the rest of the cast in the film, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and interesting films from the 1980s then I recommend this one!


Admittedly I used to like this film.... Kill me. I was 9 though. I just found in my collection of old videos and tried to rekindle that something. Rekindle what? It's cheap and not cheerful. The whole things blows and makes the idea of wallowing in your faeces a good idea. Please don't watch this, for I fear of insanity.

ps.: anyone want to buy a copy?


The television series Futurama is nothing short of brilliant and in my opinion is the best television series ever. I personally do not actually like science fiction movies or series aside from this one show which i give an exception too.

Futurama is easily leaps and bounds above the rest as it focuses substantially on character development and does avoid the common stereotype of "a family" as the focus. Instead the focuses of Futurama is simply several unique and hilarious work colleagues and there many adventures across the universe. What also is very unique is the characters are all different and each have there own opinions which provide an excellent contrast in the series. Another aspect of Futurama which surpasses other animation shows is the quality of the visuals. Futurama is notorious for having excellent visuals and has won several Emmy's for its animation achievement. The positives do not stop there; Futurama is amazing at portraying an amazing amount of emotion into the episodes that at some times had my holding back tears. This level of emotion is not even present in the Simpson's.

One final positive thing worth saying is that the show is able to appeal to all audiences, not just sci-fi lovers. For example by 50-year old mother can't stand sci-fi and she absolutely loves the show. The series itself does however contain some sexual humor that is structured rather uniquely to simply pass over young children's heads. Essentially all the sex jokes made will not be understood by the younger viewers.

Of course the show is not perfect as at it does of course have flaws. But thankfully these flaws are out shined by the brilliance of the series.

All I have to say is the biggest mistake in television history was to cancel this show, and put Family Guy back on instead of this. Conversely I am glad there are several more movies coming out which will provide the shows many fans with much more laughs. Overall I give the series a 10. One of the two television series I have ever given this too. The other being the Simpson's.


This show should have worked - it had all the right points. Star power voices, great characters, and snappy writing.

The series featured great stories, constantly challenging the viewer to laugh at things that other series wouldn't touch. An evil Santa? The severed head of Richard Nixon? Brilliant! The voices featured were all great (although Fry always just made me think of Stimpy...). They really brought the characters to life.

The characters themselves were very sharply imagined, and worked well off each other. Stories tended to be organic in nature and the humor developed from the characters, rather than just the situations (A very Simpson-esquire idea).

In short, this was great. Watch it on Adult Swim, and buy the DVD's. 9 out of 10.


Futurama is one of my all time favorite cartoon series. Never gets old. This show is so smart and funny. Why FOX ever canceled this show is beyond me.

Instead they have crappy programs like that lie detector game show and other lame junk.

Adult Swim was dumb for no longer having Futurama in its nightly line up. It is the only reason I watched it. As far as it being on Comedy Central, at least it is still on the air. As much as I love The Simpsons I can actually say I like Futurama more. Looking at all the nominations and wins the series received while on the air with FOX just proves how dumb FOX was to cancel the show.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

They brought back Family Guy. Why doesn't FOX and Matt Groening bring back Futurama?


This marvelous animation, from the creator of my all time favourite motion picture, The Simpsons, uses a subtle integration of cgi graphics with a more flashy version of Groenings style of animation to produce half hours of non stop gags (quite intelligent in some cases) and fun adventure. The pop culture references so great in The Simpsons only go farther and wider here in this story of Fry, a pizza delivery boy sent through suspended animation to the year 3000 from the year 1999.

Phillip J. Fry, better known simply as 'Fry', was a pizza delivery boy in the late nineties. The first episode deals with his being frozen in a cryogenic capsule for a thousand years, in the background through the window we see the changing of New York, which has become New New York, and remains the central setting for the series after this episode. Fry soon meets Turanga Leela, a one eyed girl who believes she is an alien, who was raised at an orphanage. (we later find out she is in fact a mutant and her parents live underground) Fry runs from Leela after being assigned work as a delivery boy (for he wished for a fresh start) and meets Bender the robot, who is programmed to bend, and has a selfish and indulgent persona, enjoying cigars and alcohol (incidentally the fuel of all robots). Leela then turns to Fry's side and the three find Fry's only living relative, Professor Farnsworth, who employs them in his delivery company, Planet Express. Other members of the crew are Zoidberg, a alien lobster like creature, and Amy Wong, a wealthy martian, as well as Scruffy the janitor (often ignored despite caring for the company deeply) and a Jamaican businessman who is good at financial operations. The series generally follows adventures on different planets, or Earth, involving a variety of recurring characters like Zapp Brannigan, who admires Leela, and many 'heads', famous personalities in the form of heads inside glass containers filled with fluid, such as Richard Nixon. The series' style shares much with The Simpsons, but is cleaner animated and uses cgi for spacecraft and other objects to some degree. Also of note is the colour of skin, pink rather than Simpsons yellow.

The characters are great, and the humour and dialogue are very worthy of the corner box's schedule. If you only allowed programs of this quality on the TV guide would be almost empty. This series is very amusing and enjoyable, and is almost as good as The Simpsons for entertainment. The characters have interesting personalities and the plots are, considering it's setting, quite extraordinary. Quite an enjoyable show.

So, all in all, thanks Matt Groening for another brilliant series, and may there be more episodes!


Look, before you ask me what the hell I am talking about, let me just get things straight. I love this show. I watch it whenever I feel down to cheer me up and it never fails to do this. But I like (or used to like) The Simpsons more and arguably the reason it went downhill after the end of the 90's was because FOX moved the good writers to Futurama, and therefore killing The Simpsons in the process. So, before I sat down and started to watch this show, I told myself 'this better be good' and my God was it GOOD. This has everything: science fiction, comedy, animation that makes you go 'wow', amazing characters, a good story and even some action. Cancelling this and the other show from the same team (The Critic) were the two biggest mistakes FOX has ever made. I just wish FOX were the people who picked it up again instead of freaking' Comedy Central. For some reason, Futurama is nowhere as good when Comedy Central makes it. (The movies were awful, admittedly) But whatever the case, I am still so pleased that it is finally coming back. Sure hope Comedy Central gets it right this time around. They sure owe it to us fans after those four terrible movies.


With Simpsons becoming more stale every year, you can only feel sorry for Groening, watching his beloved creations becoming bland and unrealistic. His other show, Futurama was a remedy for this issue as it took his humour to a different level. It was a well constructed satire of how modern day perceive the future.

The characters are well constructed and funny, though I think that the character we can all relate to is Fry. Fry just feels so real, he is not given a crazy persona just because he is a cartoon character.

Granted the show had a similar animation as the Simpson's which may have created some sceptics (I was one!), But in the end it is a show which always had a fresh joke that very rarely relying on the characters traits to make it funny. It is a well written series which in some way captures the same quality of the 90's Simpson's episodes.

I can't wait for the new 2010 series to start and I hope to see my favourite obnoxious robot, 'Bender' on my television screen again.


Futurama is probably my favourite Western animation, I first watched it because it was "from the creator of The Simpsons" and found myself preferring it. The style of animation is similar to that in The Simpsons although the characters look more human.

Set 1000 years in the future Futurama follows the life of Fry, a 20th century pizza delivery boy who got frozen in a cryogenics lab on New Year's Eve 1999. He awakens to find himself in a strange world where he makes friends with Bender, a kleptomaniac robot and Leela, a purple haired cyclops who is the only one of her kind on Earth. The three of them find employment with Fry's great-great-great... etc nephew, the 150 year old Professor Farnsworth. Their work for his delivery firm takes them to a variety of strange worlds although not all of their adventures are on alien planets, some involve the professor's strange inventions and others just involve them living their lives on 31st century Earth. There is also a good collection of secondary characters such as Dr Zoidberg the incompetent company doctor who is a crustacean, Zapp Brannigan, leader of the Democratic Order Of Planet's military leader who is also infatuated with Leela. The show manages to have several guest stars even though it is set centuries in the future by having the technology to keep people's heads preserved in jars, strangely this even works for people who are long dead in the present.

Like all series there are a few week episodes but these are far outnumbered by the excellent ones, most episodes will have viewers laughing and one or two might you cry. The voice actors all do a great job as do the animators.


Futurama is one of a kind of a show, its one of the best animated shows on television and ever. Its very funny and the characters are great, its a nice show to watch and every episode it has its laughs and moments. Its cool how they predict thing that might happen in the future and for generations. Id say this show is right behind Family Guy and Simpsons for best teen/adult animated shows on TV..its sweet. My favorite character in the show is Bender cuz he's jokes and hella funny. All he characters are unique.

This is one great show, if you don't already watch it, id suggested start watching it, there still making new episodes and there classic!


SPOILERS

Yes, yes, I know this is not a Holiday show, let alone movie, but I really wanted to comment on it. This show is created by who else than Matt Groening, who obviously created the Simpsons. Although it may not be as good as the Simpsons it is still a fantastic comedic cartoon. The characters in Futurama also have overbites like the characters in the Simpsons. The characters are not yellow, though. As you know by now, Futurama takes place in the future, so there are robots, aliens, one-eyed aliens that look like regular humans, people from Mars that look like regular people, one hundred sixty year old men, and much, much more. The future contains tubes that suck people to places, booths that can kill you, and hover cars.

A pizza delivery boy named Fry who goes out to deliver pizza. It is almost the year 2000. At the place where he is supposed to deliver the pizza he falls into a freezer. He is frozen. One thousand years go by. It is the year 3000. When he thaws out he is flabbergasted at what he sees. He learns that his nephew Professor Farnsworth lives close by. He meets a robot named Bender. All he does is drink and smoke cigars. He meets Leela, a one-eyed alien that looks like a regular human. She chases him to make him get his delivery job. He finds Farnsworth. Bender, Leela, and Fry become delivery people, alien, and robot. Fry also meets Amy, Hermes, and Dr. Zoidberg. All of them go on zany adventures.

Overall, this is a fantastic cartoon. Although it may not be as good, it's still great. I never found this show to be as funny as the Simpsons, though. I mean, there's laugh-out-loud moments, but just no as much as the Simpsons had. I also found some endings to Futurama are incredibly sad and depressing. Some of the endings include the ending to Jurassic Bark, when a flashback shows that Fry's dog in the past had waited next to the pizza parlour for Fry to return for the rest of his life. I mean, it's so sad, the dog had waited for him. The dog's eyes were so sad and hopeful. Also the end in Time Keeps on Slipping was really depressing. Anyway, this is a great show.

9/10

Recommended Titles: The Simpsons.


This is a great show. I always somehow manage to laugh my bag off whenever it was on. It's from Matt Groening man! It's got to be hilarious. I may sound a little one sided here, but I find this show to be better than "The Simpsons" in some ways. While Simpsons humor is starting to dry up, Futurama manages to stay fresh and new. I just wish they would keep it on the air. Great show!


I base this review upon the five or so seasons that aired before this was cancelled, not on anything that may have come later, including the feature-length releases, which I have no intention of watching. It has been said about this that whether you love or hate sci-fi, you'll enjoy it, because you'll either get a kick out of the absolutely countless nods to, and parodies of, classics in the field, or laugh at all the jokes made at the genre's expense. This is immensely clever, and mostly intense in pacing, at times it gets to be excessive, and you won't be able to get everything. They tend to cram everything they can into the 22 minutes, and, honestly, nearly all of it is unbelievably funny. The episodes are usually hilarious, with a couple of exceptions, typically from them focusing on something or someone that just isn't strong enough to carry the main storyline on their own. There's satire, silly humor, social commentary and gross-out comedy. Some of the material was clearly put there merely to be controversial, to tick off the censors and/or otherwise provoke, and while there are points where you can definitely tell that PhD's wrote this, there certainly are also ones where it doesn't feel like that at all. This is almost always smart and well-done. There are a lot of references the 80's, as well as Star Trek, pretty much exclusively The Original Series. They took everything they learned when working on The Simpsons and applied it, though overall I do prefer that to this. Both have heart, in with the jokes. This was evidently very well planned out, and a lot of it has a genuine arc to it. It is imaginative and has a grand scope, cool creatures and intricate, interesting designs, if not all of the concepts hold up. The voice acting is just about invariably spot-on, and not only the regular cast. Every frame of animation of this is beyond reproach, and the masterfully done 3D is seamlessly integrated. The characters are well-thought out and memorable. Quite a bit of the dialog is quotable and excellent. The DVD extras on the volume sets are magnificent. I recommend this to any fan of Matt Groening creations. 8/10


This is the first review I've ever written so here it goes.

Futurama starts off on New Year's Eve 1999 where a pizza delivery boy, Phillip J. Fry, AKA Fry, is working the last hours before the New Year. We immediately find out that his life sucks. He gets dumped by his girlfriend while delivering a pizza and when he parks his bike to make the delivery someone steals it. He ends up delivering a pizza to a cryogenics lab to where he accidentally falls into a tube where he gets frozen for 1000 years.

He wakes up to the year 3000 where obviously everything is completely different. Without telling too much more, Fry realizes he can start his life over, but he also realizes that he knows nothing about this world. He ends up working for a space delivery company with a wide variety of people.

The owner of the company is an 150 year-old scientist who is Fry's Great x (a lot) nephew who hires people for unusual reasons. He has a one-eyed space captain, Leela, A robot who does the least amount of work, Bender, A Jamaican who runs the business side of things, Hermes, an extremely rich Asain engineering intern from Mars University, Amy, and a lobster doctor, Zoiderberg, who happens to be very unqualified and very poor.

Those are the main characters, but as you watch the show you will realize that the side characters and even the extras make the show a lot more funny.

The only problem with Futurama is that it was released by the same people who created The Simpsons and at the time when The Simpsons had just finished their best years. This led to immediate comparisons between the two shows and people were expecting the Simpsons in space when they saw months of advertising about a show by the same creators of the Simpsons set 1000 years in the future. Fans actually got a lot more (dare I say) than the Simpsons.

There are a few great things about Futurama. One thing I noticed is that people know so little about the past and even the smartest people, the fungeneers, know so little. For example the first known astronauts are the honeymooners because of the line "bang zoom straight to the moon" and the first people on the moon were the "Whalers on the moon." The show generally revolves around Fry and his struggle to fit into this new world and his love for Leela. There are many episodes and parts of episodes that focus on Fry trying to win Leela's heart and most of the time he is unsuccessful or unfortunate. Bender, the robot, is an extremely selfish robot who cares about no one and always gets his way. He is the most quotable character on the show and has some classic lines. The rest of the characters are very funny, and have very odd personalities, but don't get much of the shows focus.

Many people consider Bender to be the best character on the show, but the real gem is Fry. Fry is as as dumb as dumb can be but he is a good person who actually would be a smart person if he wasn't so lazy. He is a web of contradictions mainly because he hasn't focused himself in life and wants to go places, but doesn't have the drive. Throughout the show he has done some pretty amazing things and has actually saved the lives of his co-workers on a few occasions.

Hope this kind of helped, but if you skipped all these explanations and came to the bottom I heavily suggest watching this show and start at the first first two episodes of season one and then have fun with the rest (5 season total, 4 volumes of DVD's). And if you are already a fan and have seen all the episodes, watch them again; they have much more to offer than funny lines and dumb actions.

5/5 10/10 ****/****... simply the best.


Matt Groening will forever be known as the creator of "The Simpsons". It is a pity that he will be remembered for the second-best thing he ever did. "The Simpsons" has been endured for nearly two decades yet in all those episodes, you would be hard-pressed to find an equivalent number of memorable episodes as the far superior "Futurama" managed in its five seasons of existence. "Futurama" generally has much superior story lines, the characters are far more quirky and enjoyable, the humour is way better, the animation is way better and the writing was most importantly much more consistent. Overall, Matt Groening achieved far more enjoyable television entertainment with "Futurama" than he has with "The Simpsons", yet the better show was cancelled. Go figure.


This is by far one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. After seeing less than 3 episodes, I was addicted. Sadly, I didn't recognize this great show until earlier this week, only to hear it was canceled with only 5 seasons? I heard about this show being on TV years ago, but never got around watching it.

I'm not a big fan of Sci-Fi, but with this show, you really don't have to be. It's the amazing writing and comedy gold that makes this show what it is. AWESOME! Not only are the characters hilarious in each of their own ways, but they never cease to become annoying.

Why did Futurama have to have such a short run? Because that's what FOX does. They cancel great underrated shows, (Including the ever so great Arrested Development) and replace it with awful shows such as "The Simple Life." DAMN YOU FOX!


"FUTURAMA," in my opinion, is an absolute FOX classic! I don't think I've seen every episode, but I still enjoyed it. It's hard to say which episode was my favorite. However, I think it was always funny when a mishap occurred. I always laughed at that. Despite the fact that it only lasted four seasons, it was nice that all the main characters stayed with the show throughout its entire run. It seems that no one stays with a show throughout its entire run. Everyone always gave a good performance, the costumes were well-designed, and the writing was always very strong. In conclusion, I hope someone brings it back on the air for fans of the show to see.


We are now at a time where every cartoon is to childish for an adult, or to mature for a child. One of the few cartoons still on that both children and adults can watch is The Simpsons, a past one is Futurama. There are some adult references, and some crude humor, but mostly Futurama is a family cartoon. Unlike South Park, or Family Guy (both great shows by the way) Futurama was still very funny, without sex or political jokes. I mean who didn't love watching Fry doing what he does best, being an idiot, or the evil Mom terrorizing Earth, or watching Bender and his alcoholic antics. From the first episode Futurama has you hooked, and you don't get unhooked until the final episode. A great show, that was taken off the air too soon.


"Futurama" is truly one of the best television shows ever.

The witty lines and many many pop culture, science, and sci-fi references are just as good as those used in the more widely known "The Simpsons", also created by Matt Groening.

The show at various times has mocked all of the great Sci-Fi shows as well as the typical historic sources "The Simpsons" more often references.

They pick apart practically any stereotype they see, and give us a good time in the process.

For anybody that enjoys good humor who isn't very familiar with the show, check out "Futurama".


This show is great! It has that zany "Simpsons" style of humor.To understand the characters and where the series takes place you should catch first the opening episode called: "Space Pilot 3000", which introduces you to the story. The series is just incredible, crazier than The Simpsons, beautiful animation, and innovative and touching plots - usually referenced from great moments of Cinema. Let me introduce you to main characters:

Fry - The delivery boy, as stupid as his laziness.

Bender - The lazy futuristic robot, that drinks alcohol all the time, and is practically evil...

Leela - An "alien" captain who appears to be not lazy.... :)

A great Simpson alternative! Too bad it was canceled - who knows, they might return.


Futurama is one of the greatest cartoons ever. It was smart, witty, and humorous. I don't see how people could easily lose sight of it's beauty. All the characters were set up in just 2 episodes and it was extremely easy to follow throughout the season. The storyline was consistent and the humor wasn't rude enough to offend, but it was rude enough to make you laugh. Simply put, Futurama had it's charm and I think it should have lasted one or two more seasons before it got cancelled. Otherwise it WOULD have wound up like the Simpsons. In my opinion, it is the greatest show to be put on television. If you haven't bought the DVD sets yet, look into them and see for yourself how great the show is if you haven't already. I guarantee you will be pleasantly surprised :D


Comparison between "The Simpsons" and "Futurama"

Having been created by the same man who gave us The Simpsons, this show would undoubtedly be destined for a billion comparisons with The Simpsons. I think its fairly hard to say which is better. The Simpsons came first, and in its brilliance captured the loyalty of millions upon millions of fans.

Futurama somewhat faltered there. I'm not quite sure what caused it to get cancelled over in the US of A, but I'm sure if it had been handled as well as it could've, it would've been a huge success.

In The Simpsons, you get a strong sense of reoccuring characters. Matt Groaning and co have created a whole towns worth of people for their show, that we continually see throughout different episodes, which gives the viewer a bigger sense of being 'in' on the deal. We can connect with characters and decide favourites among them, even if they're only sometimes on the show. We don't get that so much on Futurama. Sure you get characters which you see over and over (other than the main crew), but few are characterised so well. With the exception of Zap Brannagan, and perhaps the robot mafia, the regulars are generally fairly void of character; they definitely have quirks, but deeper character is lacking.

A great thing about Futurama is it can go some places where The Simpsons could never touch, seeing as the writers have the whole universe at their disposal, for example we see in the first episode as Fry familiarizes himself with the future. The Simpsons is set in reality, albeit a slightly distorted one, and is restricted by that, whereas Futurama can fly the writers' more wild ideas.

I think that each deserves to be viewed in its own light. It may not necessarily be as good as The Simpsons, but it is definitely high above your average comedy material, and is great to watch on repeat viewings.


After the long success of The Simpsons, Matt Groening and his cartoon creators decided to make another successful series, and they did. Some pizza delivery guy named Philip J. "Fry" (Bill West) accidentally freezes himself for 1000 years and wakes up in the 30th century. In this new world he befriends his great, great, great (you get the idea) nephew, clever Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth (West), the weird and funny Dr. Zoidberg (West), the cyclops Turanga Leela (Katey Sagal), Amy Wong (Lauren Tom), Hermes Conrad (Phil LaMarr) and of course, the best character, similar to Homer Simpson, Bender the robot (John DiMaggio). Throughout the show they have many weird and wonderful adventures of futuristic and funny proportions. Guests included Frank Welker, Leonard Nimoy, Pamela Anderson, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, John Goodman, Conan O'Brien, Parker Posey, Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Hank Azaria, Lucy Liu, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes and Roseanne Barr. Groening has done a very good job of creating another watchable cartoon. It won the Emmys for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) (also nominated 4 times) and twice for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation, and it was nominated for Outstanding Music and Lyrics. It was number 26 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Outstanding!


This Is No Joke They're Bringing Back The Series THIS YEAR. I Love The Show I Have Seen Every Episode & Every Movie This TV Series Is The Best Animated Show On Fox (I Have Not Seen 'Cleveland'(Don't Want To) Or 'American Dad' (Again Don't Want To)) I Firmly Hope That They Don't Do What They Did With Family Guy (Better Known To Me As 'Family Crap'). Fry Is An Idiotic Nobody Who Gets Frozen In The Year 1999(New Years Eve) For 1000 Years. He Wakes Up In The Year 2999 (New Years Eve) & Joins The Crew Of Planet Express With Leela A Cyclops, Captain, Active At Any Time, Wants To See Her Parents(& Soes In Season 4). Bender An Alcaholic Abusive Smoking Lazy Robot. Hermes A Boring Finance Manager(Or Whatever It Is). Professor A Senil Old Man Who Runs The Company. Dr Zoidberg A Lobster Doctor Which Doesn't Know Anything About Human Anatomy & Finally Amy Wong A Dumb Chinese Woman. Youj Put The Characters Together You Get A Funny Animated Show WTF Was Fox Thinking When They Cancelled It It Was A Great Show Better Than Some Of The Crap That Fox Keeps When They Transfered HIMYM I Stopped Watching Fox & I Hope They Keep The Original Funny Series That Got Cancelled. All In All A Very Funny Series That Is Worth Watching.


The Simpsons TV-series are really good and i've watched every single episode (including the new season 20 episode 1) and from seasons 1-10 many times. I just hate one thing about the Simpsons. The boring "fill-in" episodes. The episodes with the singing, clip-shows and the 3 story episodes. The thing i love about Futurama is there is no bad episodes. I own all the seasons (in Finland it's 4 seasons, in U.S.A it's divided into 5 seasons) but not the new "movie-episodes". They really suck, the first movie was so disappointing and bad, but in the second movie, "The beast with a billion backs" was actually quite good. The writers of the show admitted that the first movie was terrible and said that they are still finding the right way to do futurama movies (1 movie, 4 episodes) and they have succeeded. Can't wait for the 3rd movie.

10/10 and give the Simpsons also a 10/10


Since Futurama was made by the guy who created The Simpsons, probably the greatest cult cartoon of our time, it had a lot to live up to. Most people I know enjoy it, but think it fails overall. Their problem is, they're comparing it to The Simpsons, in which case, OF COURSE it's not gonna live up to your expectations. If you let the yellow family go, however, and actually watch the show for what it is, you will love it.

Basically about the adventures of Pizza Boy, Fry, who was frozen for 1,000 years and woke up in the year 3000, Futurama is a Sci-Fi spoof. To be honest, I find it funnier than The Simpsons at times, because it really plays on how society isn't much improved 1,000 years later. People have flown to the edge of the universe (literally; there's a billboard and everything), created robots that run on alcohol, and turned the internet into a virtual reality realm, and yet lonely guys still rent porno on Saturday night. The only difference is that the girls have multiple arms and antennae.

Futurama is a hilarious program that shows us how stupid we really are, by making us laugh at even stupider people (or aliens, take your pick). If you let yourself go and just watch it without mentally comparing it to The Simpsons, I'm sure you skeptics will enjoy it. Because, really, shows can never be as awesome as other shows, but that doesn't mean they aren't awesome on their own.


For my first comment on IMDb, i'd like to thank and congratulate the webmasters: this is one of my very favorite places on the internet! And also: sorry if my English is not perfect.

I'd like to talk a little about futurama seasons 1 and 2: I have recently seen the french version and i can tell you this is an amazing show! All the characters are great, really funny (especially bender! the french voice is really really incredible) and the animation is very good. The stories are cool and original too. The new and futuristic universe created here is very entertaining: i've watched the complete two seasons in less than a week!! yes it's as good as this! I personally prefer futurama than the Simpson. I've met people who don't like it, but i don't understand why... they must be wrong, that's my comment! :) So don't miss seasons 1 & 2!!

I must add that i've been really disappointed by seasons 3&4 :(((( it's almost bad! what happened?... is that because i'm bored after all that hours watching the first and the second season? well, i don't think so...


I am a fan of Family Guy, at least for the first 3 1/2 seasons. What they are doing now is just completely opposite of what Futurama has done in all of its seasons. This series has one thing that most shows nowadays don't really have anymore. Consistency. Normally in a series, there's quite a few episodes that I wouldn't want to watch. Futurama, however, is the rare series that I wouldn't mind watching any episode at any time.

I could easily watch reruns of this show forever, and have been watching them on adult swim for the past few years. I felt that Futurama was taken off-air in its prime.

Just recently I learned that new episodes have been in the works since mid 07. It is my sincere hope that they continue producing quality episodes for years to come.


Well 2 days ago making a review for the Futurama movie I realized I have not put a review down for the show that started it all. The show is about Fry a 21 year old pizza delivery boy who always wanted to be an astronaut and when he accidentally gets himself chrogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000. The show is hilarious from the start of the first episode till the end of the last. I think that if you love The Simpsons then you will definitely like Futurama as Matt Groening has done a brilliant job changing from series to series which is a very difficult thing to do. Overall the show is a must watch for everyone and despite the fact the idiots a Fox canceled it after 72 episodes. I rate this 97%.


10 stars is almost too little for this show. Futurama has all the humour and heart of The Simpsons, yet it is so excitingly different. Sci-Fi tends to be a creative genre, and Futurama is no exception.

The jokes vary from being very 'Simpsons-esque' to simply laugh out loud funny. There's lots of sight-gags and hidden jokes, as well colourful and funny characters. The animation is very impressive for a television show. It's a real mix of CGI effects and cell animation. Since Futurama contains a lot of explosions and what not, the animation really does it justice. The characters range from super-cute (Nibbler) to down-right stupid (Fry). Everyone gets their funny moments, and even the background characters have their share of the fun. Now that's how I'd describe Futurama - fun.

For some bizarre reason, Fox absolutely hates this show. They cancelled it, which is a real shame because this show still had tons of potential left in it. But it's being revived, and I hope the next few seasons are as good as the last ones.


I've read other viewers' comments and have seen that most have felt the way I have about this amazing cartoon. I know I can relate to others when I state that I thought this show was absolutely terrible when it first came out. I honestly didn't care about this show at all. I thought it was just a waste of air-time. After this show got canned from Fox, it went on to Adult Swim and couple years later I just happened to be watching this show that I used to despise and soon fell in love with it. This show had hit me with its funny scenes and punch lines, the great variety of different characters all with different characteristics, and even some of their serious dialogue. Futurama has such great comedy and it DOES get better and better as the series moves up, as most people say. The Simpsons looks like it's going down-hill as of right now. The writers, in my perspective, are getting pretty desperate.. Too bad The Simpsons are still on instead of Futurama. (don't get me wrong, I still like The Simpsons but.. Futurama > The Simpsons.. am I right or am I right :])

Anyway, I regret ignoring this awesome cartoon, only soon to realize this might as well be the best cartoon airing on T.V. The sad part is that I fell in love with this show AFTER it got canceled because I was too stupid to actually give this show a chance... I don't see how my comment really helped anyone out, but I could care less.

Hell, I made this account just to comment on Futurama :P


Not many, mind you. Not many at all. Since its debut in 1989, The Simpsons has been a blessing: comedic work of extremely high quality. The Simpsons has had some of the best double entendres, sly shots at celebrities, tappings into pop culture personalities and events, genuinely funny and creative material and some of the most recognizable and lovable characters TV has ever produced.

Wanna know what Futurama is? Take those factors and double them. No, triple them.

I'm not kidding. It's really that good. Matt Groening is a certified genius, and his magic touch turns anything into comedy gold. He can take the most sinister and disturbing of subjects and have you split your sides laughing at them. Not many people can do that.

Futurama is one of my all time favorite shows. I rank it right up there with Scrubs, Arrested Development, Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Da Ali G Show. Again, it really *is* that good. Groening's work focuses a lot on building the characters of his shows, and where the Simpsons were one yellow family with distinct personalities and demeanors, the differences in Futurama are much greater, transcending not only gender and ethnicity, but even species and (heck) time itself! Let's take a look at the characters:

Professor Farnsworth: old and wrinkled. REALLY old and wrinkled. Unofficially trademarked the phrase "Good news everyone!" in his own trembling old man's voice, in a reference to some random invention he came up with in just about every episode. Morally ambiguous at times, and clearly immoral at others, he lives to invent lots and lots of weird, random stuff (to give you an idea: the smell-o-scope) that serves to be some of the episodes' background story.

Bender: one of the most popular TV characters of all time - an amazing feat since Futurama was mostly a cult favorite rather than mainstream. He's a robot that doesn't give a crap about you, anyone or anything. He's got attitude coming out his shiny metal wazoo. And speaking of that, search for the phrase "bite my shiny metal ass" and see how many results come up. (Great line at that)

Leila: one-eyed, purple-haired, sexy-in-a-tank-top, ass-kickin', human-lookin' alien. The leader and the brains of the group that Professor Farnsworth sends out to do some missions.

Fry: Beavis and Butthead's long lost cousin. Not really, but seeing how big of a dumbass he is, one might conjure up that guess. A lovable idiot.

Dr. Zoidberg: a big blobby crab, obviously the group's own doctor, even though he knows as much about medicine as much as Fry knows about...anything.

Captain Zapp Brannigan: ahh, here we go! Aside of Family Guy's Quagmire, I can't think of a funnier character on an animated sitcom. No, ANY sitcom at all, actually. One of the most HILARIOUS characters you'll ever see. This guy is just insanely funny. He's arrogant, he's self-absorbed, extremely egotistical, oblivious to his own failings and glaring incompetence, indulgent in pampering himself with metrosexual treatment every now and then, has an eternal (1) grin and (2) crush on Leila, and never stops torturing his poor alien subordinate Kif who (1) does the real work all the time, (2) gets credit none of the time and (3) takes the blame every time Zapp screws things up (which happens quite often). One of my all time favorites, and once you see this show, he'll be one of yours too. I GUARANTEE this! Too bad he's not a main character.

This show is pure quality. It's creative every way a show *can* be creative, and it's funny as much as any show CAN be funny. Sadly there are no more than 10 stars in IMDb's rating system, so I have to rate it verbally: I give it the highest possible recommendation.


I've never heard about this cartoon before because Nickelodeon shows it at hours I don't watch TV (i.e. too early). Yesterday I accidentally zapped into it and immediately liked it.

Usually I'm more into cartoons meant for grown-ups (Rocko, Ren & Stimpy, Simpsons, Futurama, Cow & Chicken and so), but I also do like stuff like Spongebob. Yakkity Yak seems to have children as a target group, but the humor is quite "sophisticated" for that. Not only that the verbal jokes are funny, but also the drawings are silly enough to make my flat mate laugh who isn't into cartoons at all.

I guess I'll be spending more time at noon in front of the TV the next weekends to watch this one.


I don't see what everyone sees in Yakkity Yak because it is the worst Nick show I have ever seen and it's an insult to Happy tree Friends. I mean it, it's WAY overrated and I Will tell you why: 1) Highpant. Need I say more? I will anyway, Mr. Highpants is the worst Yakkity character who has ever been created. He's just really annoying and he ruins the show.

2) The voice acting. The VA in this show is horrible, especially Highpant's VA. He sounds like he has absolutely no personality what so ever. Rondo sounds like a dead elephant, Lemony voice is just high-pitched and annoying, The Robot mime sounds too sexy (which is stupid), and so on and so foreth. This bugs me in CatDog too. Why would Satain the Bunny (I refuse to call him Rancid Rabbit) change his voice when he yells at a person (Cat)that he hates most? LAME!!! CatDog just got stupidder

3) I hear that in one episode, Lemony made fun of Yakkity at school.

4) How is it that Yakkity goes to school? pelswick was a great Nicktoon show but this one is just terrible and I don't recommend it to anyone. Sorry CatDog, but I can't give it to ya this time.


Katt Williams is one of the best comedians out there today. He understands how to mix comedic genius with insight like not over spending on your children in with his routine. I've found that some of his comedy gets repetitive over the years but nonetheless, it never loses any of its humor in my opinion. I am anxious for some new and fresh material from him though as some of this was repeated in the Pimp Chronicles on his HBO Special. Check him out on that too. He is a great comic. If you like Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock, you'll really appreciate the comic sty lings that Katt brings to the stage. But one thing - he is NOT a PIMP - cut it OUT Katt!!!! I hope you found this review helpful.


I agree with the other review. This DVD reminded me of Richard Pryor Live. Katt Williams is hilarious in this. The DVD is Katt's show back in his hometown Cincinnati. It is intimate and it shows by how he connects with his audience. It feels like you are there watching it. Katt's takes on single fatherhood and baby's momma had me rollin. You will be watching Katt williams Live over and over again. I already know the jokes by heart but it gets me laughing on the floor each time. Definitely a classic!!! If you are thinking about watching this, I suggest you get it now because it's worth every penny. Not a single dud in there. Whether its spelling, math, or basketball, Katt has a fresh take on it all.


I saw this on t.v. and it was the funniest!!!! I bought it on DVD and I was laughhing so hard when he talks bout his baby mama and not stressin ur kids off. You can relate fo sho!!! He talks bout sex, Hollywood, parenthood, and relationships. He's from Cincinnati where it was filmed. His advice is hilarious!!!!! The best part of "Katt williams Live" is how there's a documentary to it and u really get to see a lot of whats going on. Katt really knows how to kill dem jokes. His humor is like house party style. Itz wayyy better than "Pimp chronicles" so I don't know what some peeps are talking about there. You gotta see "KATT WILLIAMS LIVE"!!


The best of Katt Williams. The best he's done. Very funny guy. Solid. Real solid. I even liked that jacket he was wearing. He's a funny funny cat. He tells stories with good punchlines. He makes you think about things I like that about him. It's not just the same old, same old. I've heard some of the jokes in other videos, but this first video is his best. Solid comedy for 70 straight minutes, with real audience reaction. You know it was true what the audience felt about him at the end. It was funny too. More physical comedy. Great story and punchlines. And at the beginning, I liked the short at the beginning too. Very relevant. You don't see that very often.


That's right. Who is Katt Williams. My girl told me to watch him. Wasn't sure about getting a DVD and then it was on Comedy Central. He wore this goofy coat and baseball hat and I thought who is this dude. Then he started talking. He made me laugh as soon as he opened his mouth. The dude is hysterical. Haven't seen anyone like him. He's full of himself. Let's speak plain. He's real arrogant, but he's a player.Especially because of what he says. Anyone who can make you laugh about the weather and walking around a shopping maul is OK, but anyone who can make fatherhood, relationships funny the way he does is great by me.


I look at a lot of DVDs. This one is Katt's first and it's better than all the rest. The documentary at the beginning sets it up. We've had enough of haters and it says so. We've had enough of hurting ourselves for haters and it says so. And it's done without hating back. I like that. This is also Katt's original material. Unlike some of his other specials, this DVD is over an hour of non-stop comedy and funny! He's real natural. Not all that gimmicky stuff he does in his later shows. He does talk about the perm. He does talk about being a pimp. But it takes a backseat to his comedy. That's the difference. There's comedy in this show. It's thumbs up, 10 points and you know it from you know it.


Version: Cantonese, with English subtitles (by SBS)

When watching movies on SBS, I'm prepared for nearly anything. Obviously my definition of 'anything' didn't include an action/horror movie from Hong Kong that was essentially 'Ghostbusters' if it were a kung-fu movie. SBS rules.

'2002' follows a police-unit dealing with the supernatural. Each team is comprised of a human / ghost partnership. When Tide's (Nicholas Tse) partner is re-incarnated, Tide finds a new partner in Fung (Stephen Fung). Fung doesn't know about the human / ghost rule, nor does he realize that anyone close to Tide is doomed to die. Meanwhile, some nasty demons are running around Hong Kong, and they're pretty angry.

The story of '2002' is pretty good. The characters are likable, and the movie was well written. Some things weren't explained very well, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone interested in these movies or the general subject (Chinese mythology).

Action-wise, '2002' kicks arse. There is a lot of wire-work and CGI. I normally don't like CGI, but I'll forgive it here as the fight scenes were pretty damn-cool. Be warned though, the fight-scenes in this exist to serve to explain the story, and not for the sake of action. Some of these fights are broken up by flashbacks, etc and may drag-on for those not keen on the plot.

8/10 - Check it out if like HK action movies.


2002 is the ghostbusting department of the Hong Kong Police. The hero is fated to cause the death of anyone he gets close to, which cramps his love-life somewhat. He gets through partners rather quickly too, since they die, become super-powered ghost partners and then get re-incarnated. His mentor sells paper offerings for the hero to burn for their ghost friends.

The script is always intelligent and witty. The action sequences are just right - they move the plot along without dominating it and are great fun. The acting and directing are both excellent and the main characters are likeable and sexy - strong, but vulnerable.

We laughed out-loud, especially at the comments that brought the characters down to earth. We didn't actually cry at the pathos but it was there.

This review relates to the English subtitled version shown on TV.


Like the only other person to comment this, I spotted it late one night on SBS (Australia's international channel).

I wasn't really expecting anything at all - but this film was great! It's your classic cop buddy movie, your experience cop (ghostbuster) gets a new partner to break in - and as always there's a new bad guy (ghost) on the block.

Action, comedy, romance, a couple of nice twists here and there to keep the whole thing entertaining.

If you're a fan of Asian cinema, this is a great film. It's a little hard to get your hands on, try ebay.


One of my favourite movies of all time. It's a lovely bitter-sweet story surrounded by an edgy plot and plenty of action and bits of humour.

The story tells of the ancient partnership of a ghost and a human teaming together to solve cases concerning unhappy ghosts.

But with this ancient partnership, comes a burden.

This movie does carry on a tiny bit but it's all for the sake of emotional suspense.

The plot twists and turns and just when you think you can predict it... I haven't met a single person that hasn't enjoyed it (and I've played this film to a lot of friends)

Perfect for a night in, maybe with your other half, it's neither overly violence nor over-mushy.

I can't hyper about this movie enough!


Too bad he's only in it for a short while. This whole movie was sort of like Ghostbusters meets Men In Black. It has ghosts, gadgets, as well as my favorite Hong Kong actors, Sam Lee, Stephen Fung, and Nicholas Tse. It offered me a nice escape, and I'm currently watching the making of the movie on the DVD. Unfortunately, that part is not subtitled in English. It is still interesting to watch though.


When this movie premiered on sky, I really wanted to watch it but due to a faulty satellite, I couldn't. The next day I looked for it on Amazon and couldn't find it. After a while I forgot about it, until last night, it was on again (the satellite had been fixed by then). I shoved a tape in and watched it. I had my doubts about this film, I've seen many Chinese films and I know when there bad, there bad but when there good, man are they good. This little gem happened to be one of the good ones, the editing, the music, the relationship between the two main characters made this film one of the most entertaining films I'd seen for a while. Wilson Yip did a good job of this (it's a film that could have been easily ruined), the film has just the right amount of everything in it, action, comedy, romance.

Overall, I really enjoyed this film and hope they make a sequel, I'd give it a cool four stars.


Alright, this film wasn't the best in the world. In fact, it probably ranks in the bottom half. Most of the film wasn't very good or inspiring but the bit that caught my eye was the sequence near the end were Wind and Fung were battling it out in the rain. That was probably the best bit. Some good Hong-Kong Wire works but no Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.


Pretty decent heist flick benefits from better than average perfs from Shaw and Shaft.

Golan decides to film it all in the Holy Land which, if nothing else, gives it some excellent cinematography to work in front of.

Shaw shows that he could have been James Bond. He looked great in the role. One almost wonders why the Oscars didn't call on him more often.

Shaft Roundtree made an excellent balance for him too. He did the hired muscle routine with a touch of class.

I'm trying to figure out Shelly Winters role though. It seemed like the producers just wanted to hire her just to hire her. Don't get me wrong. She did fine in the part. But why was it there? Dated a lot. But still a thrill ride.


Elaborate caper movie which, while nothing special, is redeemed by its unusual Israeli setting. Robert Shaw has a dual role as an industrialist and his security device-maker twin (the karate match between the two Shaws constitutes perhaps the film's low-point!). Ex-con and thief Richard Roundtree (often clad in conspicuously outlandish costumes) and lover Barbara Hershey (billed Barbara Seagull) are industrialist Shaw's unwilling accomplices in a diamond robbery  whose security system was devised by none other than his brother (whom he admits to not liking!). Shelley Winters turns up in irrelevant bits as an annoying American tourist; GET CARTER (1971)'s Roy Budd provides the score. Caper movies are among my favorites (maybe, it's because I work in a bank) but this is a very mild addition to that exciting thriller subgenre  chiefly because of an unconvincing plot also involving child kidnapping, a counter robbery from a church to mislead the Israeli police, the gang donning a series of silly disguises and, ultimately, a burglary which remains unfulfilled (again, a fashionable twist in the cynical 1970s but rather ludicrous in this context!).


If kids shows were actors, this show would be Johnny Depp. A cut above the rest.

The jokes were crazy, fast paced, hilarious and frequent. The plots were imaginative and absurd. The haphazard, child-like style was masterfully used to further the feeling of unpredictability.

I think this show is more enjoyable than Fairly Odd Parents, and on par with Fillmore, which is quite a statement.

I watched it until I was 15 when it was canceled, and still thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone younger who didn't like this show needs to loosen up.


This fine film appeared recently as part of a Chilean film festival at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It is a very moving portrayal of people caught up in struggles with a dictatorial society and harsh weather conditions. The romance between the two main characters serves as a fine example of how we all look for relevance in a world dominated by evil and natural forces.

The acting, the script, the cinematography and even the music are all superb. This is the type of film that you will rarely encounter from our Hollywood gristmill. Chilean filmmakers are obviously not afraid to confront their past and to deal with it by producing great artistic films. I have been going to this festival quite regularly and only hope that more people will get to see fine cinema from Chile. Highly Recommended.


This movie teaches us a lot of useful things. First: making good movies about political issues is possible. Second: You can make a good chilean movie about chilean aspects of chilean life (many chilean directors want to do French, Italian, or New York look-like movies, ashamed of their own roots). Third: You can a good movie about political issues, about Chilean stuff and have success in both theaters and critic. A very human and poetic love story during the Pinochet's dictatorship is shown in La Frontera, when oppositors were sent to little villages far away from everything and a series of strange relations start. With great performances of and Patricio Contreras and Gloria Laso. The scene in the bar when the men are dancing between them is just memorable. Hector Rios' cinematography is superb. If you can see this movie, I recommend it.


Superbly written and acted. I'm still thinking about this movie, 15 years later, after seeing it at a local art film movie house in Ann Arbor. The pastoral beauty of the Maine-like seaside isolation is beautifully and bleakly shot, and the location is a perfect choice for this reflective look at how we banish and bury the truth and emotional life. It's the ocean, the natural world, which keeps track of the past and the present, and does not let anyone forget. I give this film 10 votes out of 10 for vibrant use of Latin-American Magical Realism plus Best "guys dancing with guys" in a bar in Nowheresville scene ever. A quiet, thoughtful movie that precisely conveyed a different way of thinking about the world, and which changed a lot of the ways that I think about the world--exactly what the power of film was meant to accomplish.


A very lyrical movie from Chile, reminded me much of Tarkovsky's work. The acting was also excellent. This was certainly the best movie shown this season in our international movie club.


I enjoyed the movie a lot. I like movies in which the characters are kind of ¨mysterious¨ at the beginning and then become clearer as the film progresses. Ramillo is ¨dumped¨ onto this island as an exile, but we don't know anything at first about why he's an exile or where he's being exiled from. All of this is gradually revealed in the film. All of the characters are fascinating. The drunk who dies at the beginning, the diver, the men in the bar, the woman and her father, the ¨seer¨ who warns them that the sea is coming.

I wonder why it was named ¨La Frontera.¨ I also wonder why Maite does not go with Ramillo. She seems to have lost her mind somewhat at the end. She is sexually starved, but then refuses a life with Ramillo.


Another Troma-tic turkey (produced by Eric Louzil, who went on to direct those awful NUKE 'EM HIGH sequels) and substandard slasherama with one difference by default...Kevin Costner! In an uncredited supported role, Costner has two scenes as campus party animal Jimmy Scott, main suspect in a rash of killings at Dorothy College. Short fused, foul-mouthed detective Rydell King (William J. Kulzer) investigates the murder spree of "The Black Angel" (aka "The Co-ed Killer" or "The Moral Vigilante"), a mystery maniac who enjoys cutting up a group of co-eds, who used to be hookers and like to shower a lot.

A key subplot involves a young bimbo named Judy (Elizabeth Trosper) who receives heavy breathing phone calls ("I'm coming to get you!") and whose racist brother objects to her black boyfriend. Everyone talks about how hot she is, a point that seems to require her to be in full make-up at all times (including in the shower and waking up in the morning).

This film might set some kind of record for nude female victims, including porn star Susanna Britton/Barbara Peckinpaugh in an endless scene where she showers and runs around naked trying to elude the killer. Also featured are skinny dipping (from Terry Congie who co-starred with Costner in his first film, SIZZLE BEACH USA), a bloody stabbing, a head mashed in a car hood, a magician, a fat lesbian, a cello player and a visible boom mike. It didn't get released on video until 1986 (it was actually produced in 1981), with the publicity centering around. guess who?


I knew this had to be quality when I put in the DVD and the Vestron Video logo popped up? So I guess that means this was made for video, no wonder they went broke and disappeared. What we have here is a series of slasher murders being investigated by a very angry cop, he's been on leave for a while since his daughter got killed and now he's back and he uses lots of 4-letter words and goes right into ballistic without even working up to it, whew! Serious overacting by this guy. Anyway this is a bunch of mundane events all tied together by this killer dressed in black with a black mask, but you see the killer making phone calls and it seems fairly obvious who it is if you're paying any attention at all. I didn't even recognize Kevin Costner in this, and I didn't even realize he was in it until after the fact. Talk about screen presence. At any rate, this is a sleepwalk of a film, nothing much to recommend and you'll do just fine by never seeing it. 3 out of 10.


One of the very worst slasher films ever made; a ski-masked killer is doing away with vacuous coeds for a reason that never really becomes clear. Not even a spark of originality and EVERY girl who dies struts around naked despite the obvious presence of the maniac in the house / woods / room.

The only notable thing is a marginal appearance by Kevin Costner as a boyfriend who everyone thinks is the killer (but probably isn't if you've seen a few of these). Suspiciously, his name is elided completely from the film itself, and the way the end credits roll has to be seen to be believed. Awful.


This movie radiates with star power! Kevin Costner lights up the screen! Truly, he is a wonder to behold as the suspicious boyfriend! Oh, those eyes, burning with intensity...

Okay, yeah, Costner's presence doesn't help this movie. But truth be told, nothing could. It's really the kind of movie you get when you put a bunch of people together who think they have what it takes to make a decent film, but don't.

And while you might think this is regular slasher fare, I say nay! Though this has some slasher elements (i.e. a ski-masked killer and topless college girls), it's really a hackneyed detective thriller trying to disguise itself as a true blue horror flick.

Detectives investigate as nubile young ladies are killed by a masked madman. Of course, preceding each kill sequence is a very leisurely-paced scene of the future victim getting down to her skivvies and beyond. The killings are sporadic and dull, failing to generate any kind of suspense or momentum.

But wait, there's more. See, the victims all know each other. What's the connection to the killer? What is the murderer's maniacal motive? Will you be able to wait ninety minutes to find out?

While it was compelling watching several young actresses disrobe for any and all reasons, the script, acting, cinematography, and direction were incompetent enough to make it hard to sit through.

So as a suspense film, this doesn't cut the mustard. But if you want some softcore porn, and you're too embarrassed to go up to the video store counter with the real thing, this might fit the bill.


Do not expect anything spectacular when you rent this movie. A killer starts killing teenage girls and boys which will eventually lead up to the killing of one girl in particular. Their are some interesting murder scenes but the movie is very slow and drags on and on and on. There is the classic who done it, with the blame being but on every one except the real killer. In the end the killer is predictable from the characters actions earlier in the movie and the final chase scene is pretty dull compared to others. Like I've said in my many other reviews watch it only if you're in the mood for some cheesy 80's slasher films.


STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs

A serial killer by the name of The Black Angel is on the loose in a college campus,slaying girls or boys without discrimination.College party animal Jimmy Scott (Kevin Costner) falls under the heavy eye of Detective King (William J Kulzer) a short-fused,foul-mouthed detective driven by his own personal needs to track down the killer on account of his own daughter's savage killer not being found years before.But when Judy (Elizabeth Trosper) one of the sexiest girls on the campus starts getting heavy breathing phone calls,it looks like she may become the next target if King can't find the killer in time.

Kevin Costner makes an early film appearance as the prime suspect (long before the days of Dawson's Creek this was obviously one of those pioneer movies that cast actors about ten years too old to be playing college students in their roles.)He gives a terrible performance like everyone else,but then he was probably having his daydreams of staring in epic tales of epic frontiers and district attorneys who root out presidential assassins,unlike the other stars who just faded into oblivion after this film was made (there seem to be a few who think Costner should have done the same,but,there you go...) The film was made in 1986,but looks more like it was made in 1976.The dodgy lighting and wooden sets are here in all their glory,obviously a very low-budget effort all round.Yep,this is definitely another one of those 'before-they-were-famous' efforts that linger at the back of the CVs of stars like Costner like flies on sh*t.*


Shadows Run Deep is a horrible movie! Its definitely not one of those "its so bad, its good" type of films. What makes Me sick, yes absolutely sick about the movie is all of the nudity in it! There is so much it the movie should have been called "What woman can bare it all the most before she get killed?":{ If you are a guy and love nudity where it shows the top and the bottom for at least a half of a minute in each scene (which to Me it seemed to be days before a scene ended) then hurry up and find and buy this movie IMMEDIATELY! In My opinion it would have been a good if there wasn't so damn much filth in it because the music was ok and the acting by William J. Kulzer was decent. I guess they thought it would it be great if THAT MUCH was in it! Well, in My opinion this just totally ruins a movie. The gore factor here was really non-existent. For hardcore slasher fans there was a few killings and blood but there was only one killing on screen. My advise is if you are a fan of the Friday the 13th series, the Halloween series, and/or the Scream series (which most of them films keeps nudity to a minimum) don't expect something really great to happen as this crappy excuse of a slasher doesn't even come close to them and even the appearances by Kevin Costner doesn't save this movie:( Only watch the movie if you are a nudity freak! I hate to say it but this movie SUCKS!!! That's My opinion!


In Oklahoma, a gas company employee is killed by insects in the housing development Oasis Plans. Dean and Sam decide to drive to the compound to investigate the event. They go to a open barbecue in the house of the owner of the lands, Larry, and meet a real state agent, pretending they were interested in buying a house. Sam becomes close to Larry's son Matt, who collects bugs. When the agent dies with spider bites in her bathroom, Dean and Sam discloses that the area is a land cursed by Indians many years ago, when they were annihilated by the American soldiers. The two brothers try to convince Larry to leave the place to save the life of his wife and Matt.

"Bugs" uses the idea of the biblical locust plague, but as a curse of Indians. In this episode, Sam shows a great identification with Matt, because of his troubled relationship with his father. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Insetos" ("Insects")


This is not the best "Supernatural" episode. But, it still has some cute moments. It gives us some more insight into Sam and John's relationship. Sam continues to be bitter about being -what Dean calls- the "Blonde chick from the Munsters" of the Winchester clan. He's never quite been able to fit-in with John's expectations of him. Plus, the episode shows the hurt and worry that Dean continues to hold on to regarding Sam's "abandoning" him to go to Stanford. He's always afraid that Sam might leave again and that Dean will be all alone. Still, the rest of the episode is sort of lackluster. Not very scary or interesting. Really, if you're in a hurry, you can probably skip this episode and not miss much story wise.

This episode revolves around bugs attacking a new housing development, called Oasis Plains. Construction is delayed when beetles kill a construction worker. It looks like mad-cow disease, and Sam & Dean are instantly suspicious that something supernatural is afoot. Pretending to be interested in buying a house for their poor, aging father they meet the housing project's head-honcho, who is also the first resident of Oasis Plains. Sam feels a connection to the guy's 16 year old son, Matt, who is a collector of bugs and often clashes with his father. When a realtor is killed by Spiders in her steam shower, Sam & Dean begin to suspect that there "Willard" type figure is controlling the bugs and their first suspect is Matt.

Turns out Matt's an innocent by-stander to the bug attack, though. It's really a Native American curse working to punish people living on the land. The new housing development is right on top of the land that the Native American's were driven off of. Sam & Dean interview a college professor and a old Native American guy who tells them the legend. They the boys head off to evacuate Matt and his family. The father doesn't believe them, though, and the bugs attack too quickly for them to get out. They have to defend the house from the bugs, holding them off until dawn. Afterwards, the father promises to close down the housing development. Sam, seeing Matt and his dad getting closer, tells Dean that he wants to find John to mend fences. Dean promises that they will.

There are some good parts with this episode. I really like the way Sam identifies with Matt. His advice to the kid to just get through the next 2 years and then escape to college, really confuses and hurts Dean. Dean is so wrapped in following John's orders that he really doesn't understand Sam's resistance. Plus, Dean has been standing between John and Sam in their fights for so long that he can see how they're BOTH sort of wrong. When Sam is annoyed that John never told him that he was proud or him, or thinking of him while he was away, Dean just quietly remarks that "The phones work both ways, Sam." He also explains that John does care about Sam and checked on Sam all the time when he was at college. Of course, I'm willing to take bets that anytime John secretly visited Sam at Stanford, it was at Dean's prodding. Honestly, I'd be surprised if anymore than a week of two went by without Dean checking in and making sure Sammy was okay. But, still, it's a cute moment. Also, I like the realtors trying to sell Sam & Dean the house, first assuming that they are a couple and then that they need the house for their "elderly" father. Dean's smirk when he calls Sam "honey" makes me smile. Finally, Dean in the steam shower is just too adorable. First of all HE'S adorable, so that helps, but it's also just a cute little glimpse of his life. He really appreciates little things, because he has such a spartan life-style. The shower is "Awesome!" to him, because he spends most of his life in the Impala or in cheap hotels.

There are some problems with this episode. First of all, I'm going to assume that a long time passed while they were in the attic, hiding from the bugs. But it's edited to seem like there were only about 4 minutes between midnight and dawn. Also, the bugs are sort of fake-y and not particularly scary. Not a lot of supernatural events actually occur. It's mostly Sam & Dean talking to Matt about bugs and investigating Native American burial grounds. Honestly, it can get a little dull in places.

My favorite part of the episode: Sam and Dean arguing about John. Sam is bitter because he wanted to play soccer rather than go bow-hunting. Dean's baffled, "But, bow-hunting's an important skill." Just cracks me up. He just doesn't get it. On a side note, in season three's "Bad Day at Black Rock," we learn that Sam really did get to play soccer, which is a cute touch.