Futurama - Bender's Big Score
by Dwayne Carey-Hill
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Actor: Al Gore, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Sarah SilvermanDirector: Dwayne Carey-Hill
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Futurama - Bender's Big Score
Movie Review: More Twists and Turns Than Any Animated Movie Ever! Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
November 27, 2007 couldn't come fast enough. It's been years since Futurama got pulled off the air by the air-headed executives of Fox Network. But Futurama: Bender's Big Score marks the first phase of reparations. Futurama fans rejoice! This new 89 minute feature breathes new life into the series and spells good things to come in the future.
Two years have passed since Box Network executives cancelled the contract with Planet Express leaving Fry, Leela, Bender and the rest of the crew out of a job. Yet there they are, two years later, celebrating the firing, beating and deaths of those Box Network execs. While on their first mission back on the job they find themselves on a nude beach planet where a trio of naked aliens convince the entire Planet Express crew to give out their e-mail addresses to support any number of false causes. It seems in the future spam is much more convincing. Before they know it, Planet Express and all of Earth become victims of identity theft and financial scams. The naked alien trio shows up on Professor Farnsworth's front door claiming the company and, eventually, the planet as their own.
What would a new installation in the Futurama saga be without Fry trying and failing to win Leela's heart? Indeed, what would it be without well-choreographed plotlines involving massive amounts of time travel, beer-guzzling robots and the occasional music number? Fry finds his romantic advances halted in lieu of Lars; the new interloper into Leela's world; meanwhile Bender finds himself the stooge of the scamming alien trio due to a porn virus he unwittingly downloaded. Bender's Big Score paces itself brilliantly and only ever feels forced when minor characters from past seasons are written in purely to say `hello'. Perhaps the greatest part of this 89 minute excursion into the great green yonder is the ability to wrap up loose ends that were never explained in episodes past.
Overall, I still get goosebumps when I watch this DVD. I've done so 3 times in the last 24 hours and I'll probably do it again shortly after writing this review.
Futurama fans you have a choice. You can either watch this DVD now in its 89 minute glory, or you can wait. Wait for what? Eventually this movie will get chopped up into 4 pieces and recut as new episodes in the upcoming season of Futurama. In cutting up the movie, new content will be added to help them function as individual episodes. But I say regardless at least go out and rent this.
Bender's Big Score achieves hilarity and promises a bright future for Fry, Leela and Bender. No other animated show makes me laugh as hard as Futurama and yet displays such true emotion. Family Guy can't come close and Simpsons lost its edge years ago. Matt Groening and company hit the jackpot with this franchise and I hope this resurrection goes a long way to proving that. Futurama provides deep and rich plotlines featuring equally complex characters.
This is everything a Futurama fan could hope it to be. I myself was wary about it after the first viewing...but it gets better with each subsequent run.
Special features:
Commentary: Your typical commentary track. I'm not sure how many there are but I've listened to one and it was pretty funny. A few good jabs at Fox. Quite a few.
Live Comic Book Reading: The Futurama cast goes bed time story on an audience's behind as they read from a comic book. Kinda fun to listen too. Like watching an animated show...live...but not...
Hypnotoad: Personally I couldn't stop laughing at this. A full episode of the toad staring at you...and vice versa if you watch back. Might require chemical enhancement to truly enjoy.
A Terrifying Message From Al Gore: Promotional cartoon for Gore's an Inconvenient Truth starring the Vice Pres himself and Bender, the lovable rascal.
Bite My Shiny Metal X: Considering the time travel and mathematics related to time travel sported by the 89 minute feature - this is actually kind of cool to watch.
Beyond that you have storyboard stuff, a copy of the original draft of the script, and the 5 minute Comic-Con promo video.
Summary of Futurama - Bender's Big Score
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