Futurama - Bender's Big Score
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Movie Reviews of Futurama - Bender's Big Score
Movie Review: The Return of Futurama
Summary: 5 Stars
This marks the first of several Futurama "movies" to be released, and the return of the series after years of (unjust) cancellation. Like most "movies" from the animated comedy genre it is essentially just a long episode(to be split into the appropriate time segments upon future broadcast). Having said that however, it is one damn good episode. They pulled out all the stops for this release, bringing back virtually every supporting character from throughout the series in a huge display of fan service that was handled nicely. The only disappointment is the lack of John Goodman reprising his original voicing of Robot Santa, using instead the John DiMaggio rendition from later episodes with him. Mark Hamill doing the never before seen(only referenced) Chanukah Zombie does make up for it a bit though.
Rest assured, anyone who enjoyed the series in the slightest will love Bender's Big Score, and won't be let down. It might not win over people who weren't fans to begin with, but then people who don't like Futurama are terrible, terrible people anyway.
Movie Review: Surprisingly clever
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I was a little iffy... it's been awhile since the writers had written for Futurama together, but it's our lovable gang's first "movie" and I just had to buy it.
I'm glad I did. It had me laughing out loud several times, and overall it is probably three of my favorite "episodes" of the whole series. The plot is actually really clever and thought out, and unlike another reviewer who disliked the Fry/Leela/Lars storyline I thought it was extremely cute and sweet (including the Fry & the whale parallel). I liked how everything was tied together, although [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER] I can't imagine Bender being okay with waiting for centuries for the year 3000. I mean, he stole from the ancient Egyptians and everything, and then waited in the basement until the exact moment he was supposed to reappear? He'd get bored after a day. I'm surprised the future wasn't changed....
Other than the ending feeling a little rushed, I don't have any reasons for why this can't get 4.5 or 5 stars. Highly enjoyable and highly recommended!!
Movie Review: A TV series to feature length film that is actually solid
Summary: 5 Stars
The title is somewhat misleading, however Bender does save the day buy way of a 'dirty double cross', I guess that was the 'big score'.
DiMaggio was a little bit more colorful with his Bender voice then from the series (i'm not sure what to make of that). The remix of the theme music was done well too. It had a celebratory feel to it (to go along with Benders explicitly stated 'We're back baby!') and during the climatic ending it subconsciously made my insides tingle to see this cast and crew back together.
Like the Simpsons movie the underling story was one about love, unlike the Simpsons movie (is spider pig really that funny?!) I didn't come to a point where I just became uninterested in paying further attention. And behind all the laughs the story had something important to say about relationships. It's to bad this didn't make it to the big screen and the Simpsons movie straight to DVD.
This was a really enjoyable feature length Futurama and I have nothing but thanks and praise for those involved.
Movie Review: Wonderful to have Futurama back, a worthy successor to underappreciated TV series
Summary: 5 Stars
FOX screwed up royally in their treatment of this TV show while they were airing it. It was initially aired on Sunday nights in time slots that inevitably got this show and others from same night pre-empted because of NFL game over-runs and other sports programming. Thank god FOX worked on that issue and finally started airing an NFL wrap up show during the season, saving the episodes of shows like King of Hill for later in the year so they wouldn't be pre-empted and never seen like this lost gem of a show was.
This movie gives Futurama a great return and sets it up for several episodes for TV in eventual return there. I hope it gets a fair shot when it eventually comes back :-)
The movie here gets a bit 'busy' at times and perhaps over-does the same joke/plotline, but the movie is very enjoyable. Some great inside jokes are included early on, and of course the same classic characters are all here. Give your DVD player and TV a great gift by grabbing this flick and playing it as soon as you can.
Movie Review: All three movies
Summary: 5 Stars
I have casually watched the series in the past. Recently, I casually watched a few reruns and started really getting into Futurama. I saw some of Bender's Big Score on TV and then watched the whole movie on DVD.
Of the three, I loved BBS the best. There were a lot of funny jokes and I love how they complexly interwove time travel into the movie. When you watch the commentary on, you learn of all the thought that went behind this movie (e.g. numbers in the background) which they didn't do in the subsequent two movies. Couldn't watch the whole Hypnotoad episode. Zzzzzz. 5 stars.
The Beast of a Billion Backs was an interesting story but I personally didn't think it was that funny. 3 and half stars.
Bender's Game was funnier than BBB but I'm not crazy about parodies because if you've missed the parodied movie.... In this case, it was the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy. 4 stars.
Still, I am great fan and will purchase the 4 season episodes.