Movies Starring Katey Sagal
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Snoop Dogg, Phil LaMarr, Billy West, Dawnn Lewis, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom
DIRECTOR:Peter Avanzino
In this feature-length Futurama adventure, dark forces older than time itself conspire to prevent the dawn of a glorious new green age as Bender falls for a married fembot, Leela attempts to escape Zapp Brannigan, and Fry is recruited for a top-secret mission to try and save the entire universe.
Futurama: Bender's Game
John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Phil LaMarr, Rich Little, George Takei, Frank Welker, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom
DIRECTOR:At once a merciless skewering of all things fanboy and an extremely satisfying addition to the Futurama franchise, Bender's Game is among the best of the animated series' feature length adventures. The game in question is Dungeons and Dragons, and Bender wants in—only robots aren't programmed with the necessary imagination. Naturally, Bender's plans to develop one go completely awry and land him in an android asylum. The role-playing plotline later re-emerges—in typically convoluted Futurama fashion—via a subplot involving Professor Farnsworth's conversion of dark matter into spaceship fuel, which created a key to a very D&D-influenced universe where our hapless heroes eventually find themselves. The alternate world storyline allows for much lampooning of fantasy tropes, with Lord of the Rings receiving the lion's share of the tweaks. Seeing as how the writers have already devoted much of the movie's running time to parodying Star Wars and Star Trek (and their Lego offshoots), one might think that Bender's Game might suffer from pop-culture overload, but surprisingly, it all feels fresh and frequently funny, and the writers are wise to ground the story in their eccentric characters rather than pinballing them through an endless string of gags. The result is probably the strongest of the direct-to-DVD Futurama releases to date, and one that newcomers to the show's cracked universe can appreciate as much as longtime fans.As with previous Futurama DVD releases, the extras come fast and furious on Bender's Game: commentary by members of the cast and production team (including Matt Groening) is both informative and funny, while interviews with the writers and producers discuss, among other topics, the influence of Dungeons and Dragons on the series and the 3D models used in the feature. Aspiring animators might appreciate "How To Draw Futurama in 83 Easy Steps and the storyboard animatic for the first part of the story, while the "Genetics Lab" feature allows for some amusing Dr. Moreau-style cross-breeding of the characters. Recording session bloopers and a deleted scene offer their own laughs, but the most enjoyable extra must be the preview for the next Futurama feature, Into the Wild Green Yonder, which suggests a shocking development for one of the show's regulars.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, David Herman, Frank Welker, Al Gore
DIRECTOR:Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes.
I'm Reed Fish
Jay Baruchel, Alexis Bledel, Schuyler Fisk, Victor Rasuk, DJ Qualls, A.J. Cook, Katey Sagal, Chris Parnell, Shiri Appleby, Valerie Azlynn, Blake Clark, Tommy Dewey, Reed Fish, Todd Fjelsted, Andrew Stubblefield
DIRECTOR:Reed Fish's life turns into chaos when a high school crush returns to Mud Meadows on the eve of his marriage to the small town's sweetheart.
