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David Stevens reviews

Futurama Season 2

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Cert:

Cat.no: 22253 DVD

Running time: 414 minutes

Year: 2000

Pressing: 2002

Region(s): 2, PAL

Chapters: 5 per episode

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0

Languages: English, French, Italian

Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired, French, Italian

Fullscreen: 1.33:1

16:9-Enhanced: No

Macrovision: Yes

Disc Format: DVD 9

Price: £39.99

Extras: Commentaries for all episodes, Animatics, Deleted scenes, Storyboards, Stills gallery, Alien alphabet translation.

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Cast (voices):

Fry/Professor/Zapp Branigan: Billy West
Leela: Katey Sagal
Bender: John Dimaggio

Futurama was the big follow up to the Simpsons, one of the most famous and popular television series of all time. It, in many ways, surpassed Matt Groening's first hit: it was funnier, ruder and more ambitious. But despite this Futurama was sadly cancelled earlier this year, but thanks to the magic of DVD we can enjoy the episodes over and over again.

Season two marked a milestone in Futurama, the voices became more settled after a small amount of tweaking after season one, and 'level' of violence/language/sex and so on was set. The episodes in this set are: 'I Second That Emotion', 'Brannigan, Begin Again', 'A Head In The Polls', 'Xmas Story', 'Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?', 'The Lesser Of Two Evils', 'Put Your Head On My Shoulders', 'Raging Bender', 'A Bicyclops Built For Two', 'A Clone Of My Own', 'How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back', 'The Deep South', 'Bender Gets Made', 'Mother's Day', 'The Problem With Popplers', 'Anthology Of Interest I', 'War Is The H-Word', 'The Honking' and 'The Cryonic Woman'.

The quality of these episodes ranges from Good to excellent, none of them are partially bad, but a few don't quite manage to reach the high standard of the rest. 'The Cryonic Woman' being one of them.

The sound and picture quality is slightly better than the previous season. As I said the level of violence and language is established in this season and for some younger fans of the simpsons it may be considered to strong. The highlight of the extras is definitely the audio commentaries; they are fun, informative and hilarious. The other extras are worth looking at but fail to reach the entertainment level of the commentaries.

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Review copyright © David Stevens, 2003.

As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.

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