Good news! The ne’er-do-well goof troop from the late “Futurama” series, boosted by popular Adult Swim reruns, is back for a straight-to-DVD film. And it hasn’t missed a beat.

Rather than put the show back into full rotation — like “Family Guy” — the creators took the high road. This nearly-90-minute opus picks up right where the series left off: Bender’s still a klepto, Fry still loves Leila (yet can’t manage to close the deal) and Professor Farnsworth is still senile.

So when the group gets hauled out of mothballs after two years, their first delivery is to a nude beach planet where they’re swindled via e-mail spam by a group of information-hungry nudist aliens. Follow me so far? They use this purloined info — and a computer virus-infected Bender — to buy out nearly all of planet Earth.

The fate of planet Earth — again — falls to dimwitted Fry and a tattoo affixed to his posterior. And just when you think the time-travel paradoxes are confusing enough, the calculus-savvy Harlem Globetrotters step in to help out. Got that?

Nearly all your favorite recurring characters show up: the oversexed and under-brained Capt. Zapp Brannigan; the homicidal Santa Claus; the preserved head of Richard Nixon (who is Earth’s president now); wife-stealing Barbados Slim and myriad others.

All this silliness is complemented by Futurama’s crisp, cutting-edge animation — served up with a Simpsons-esque satiric take on the 31st century.

So grab a Slurm and curl up on your favorite velour sofa for this gut-busting trek.

Mike McMillan, Anderson Independent-Mail