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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 818
Released: November 27, 2007 |
| Our Price: $15.34 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD
Description of Futurama - Bender's Big Score:
Proving that you just can't keep a good animated series down, Bender's Big Score revives the Futurama crew in a full-length feature (reportedly, the first of four which will later be broken down into individual episodes for television broadcast) chock full of the satiric touches that made the Matt Groening series a cult favorite among sci-fi and animation fans. In true Futurama form, the plot of Big Score is proudly ridiculous: At its core, it's about alien telemarketers with a plan to steal Earth's most valuable historical objects, who use e-mail viruses to cripple Planet Express and take control of belligerent robot Bender; the latter carries out their scheme via a time-travel code tattooed on Fry's backside. This allows for all manner of subplots involving Fry's return to the 20 th century, romantic confusion between Fry and Leela (Katey Sagal), and a host of cameos ranging from Kwaanza-bot (Coolio) and Zapp Brannigan to Al Gore (voiced by the real former vice-president, who once again displays an offbeat sense of humor).
Bender's Big Score also features a staggering amount of extras that reflect the show's sense of playful anarchy. Most valuable to longtime fans is the feature-length commentary by Groening, writers Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen, director Dwayne Carey-Hill, and cast members Billy West (Fry), DiMaggio, and Phil LaMarr, which provides a wealth of information on the film's production as well as plenty of laughs from the voice actors. "Futurama Returns!" is a live comic book reading by the cast in front of an enthusiastic convention audience, while "A Terrifying Message from Al Gore" is a short animated promo featuring the ex-veep in an animated promo for his Inconvenient Truth documentary (Gore's commentary for this short is worth the DVD's sale price alone), and "Bite My Shiny Metal X" is an amusing, tongue-in-cheek lesson on the mathematics used to deliver the show's futuristic touches. Perhaps the oddest extra is a full-length episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, a sitcom based around the bizarre title creature that will provoke equal amounts of laughter and exasperation. A small battery of deleted scenes, new character design sketches, and a five-minute promo shot for Comic-Con round out the extras. --Paul Gaita
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Futurama - Bender's Big Score Reviews:
Somewhere in between 
2008-07-25 - I don't love this movie; I don't hate it. I'm glad for the chance to see more Futurama, but the story is a little confusing (although yes, somewhat funny) and for some reason I can't completely nail down, this just isn't of the same quality as the classic Futurama episodes. If you've never seen it before, I suggest renting it first to see if it's a movie you can see yourself owning.
Fun, But Needed Less
2008-07-24 - As always, the computer guided movements of the ships just make me sit there like a slack jawed yokel and say, "Oooh, Shiny." (Oops, wrong oeuvre!)
I love that they could come back and put together more Futurama. However, they needed less of a bunch of things:
1. Less Hermes.
2. Less decaptiations - yuck, not funny, don't like seeing likeable character maimed like Wile E. Coyote.
4. Less telegraphing the computer spam jokes.
5. Agreed with other posters that roll call at the beginning added nothing to the show.
I did enjoy the way they handled the classic time travellers' problem and found the romantic stuff to be poignant and interesting. And like I said, the CGI rocked very hard. The "kitten class" battleships made me laugh, as did the parachutes with kitty ears.
I'd like to have seem more of:
1. Professor Farnsworth
2. Zoidberg
3. References to Slurm
4. The newscasters
And where was Farnsworth's girlfriend and the two blobular evil aliens who drool?
BTW - technical nit - did anyone else have a problem with audio? Each time some segment started, I lost several seconds of audio at the beginning. I don't have that happen with my other DVDs, so I know it isn't the player.
Great, but as good as Deathday by Eugene Bruce? 
2008-07-21 - Deathday by Eugene Bruce would be better! Maybe, maybe not who knows actually, futurama is far far superior but being an impoverished author i won't apologise for shamelessly promoting my debut novel Deathday by Eugene Bruce - I'd very much appreciate you checking it out that's DEATHDAY by EUGENE BRUCE - I love you America!
Futurama's Back
2008-07-13 - Futurama returns to DVD in movie form after two years since being canceled
by Fox TV. Let me say that after being away for two years and returning, they haven't changed a bit. The characters are still as funny and unique as last time and at the start of this movie we're given a very thrilling team roll call.
Futurama has always been known as being extremely funny but mixing comedy with drama. It has the ability to have us in tears of laughter and in tears of emotion and sadness. We are given both feelings in this movie as the story is clever, funny and emotional. Also at the ending we're given one hell of a twist that I genuinely wouldn't have expected.
The story goes that since the team have returned they embark on their first delivery to the nudist planet. While there they're approached by three aliens who we come to know as the scammers who are asked to sign a petition and supply their e-mail address. Also on the nudist planet Leela notices that Fry has a tattoo of bender on his rear which he can't explain but turns out to be more important than we'd first anticipated as it contains the time code.
A few days later the gang start receiving spam e-mails which, one by one scam the team out of money and even bender is scammed when an obedience virus is downloaded to his brain. The scammers come to Earth and Planet Express to reveal that they are now the owners of the company. Upon them also discovering the time code this leads to a whole heap of trouble involving time travel, paradoxes and love.
Oh and Hermes body gets crushed and he ends up as a head in a jar.
Great return of Futurama and I hope this leads to the series being recommissioned by Comedy Central.
A tad disjointed, but still fun
2008-07-12 - The story was wild and crazy, I enjoyed it. Although it did feel slightly like the movie was written to be cut up into different episodes, which in the end didn't serve it very well.
Some of the references in the movie didn't seem very well thought-through and just felt plain contrived. I enjoyed the story, as it was a very Futurama-esque story, especially how they tie it all together. Some of the elements they put into it did seem to detract from the overall story though. Sorry, but having a guest cameo from almost all the characters who ever were in the show didn't seem to move the story along as much as the writers might have thought it would.
Overall, it's worth watching if you are a die-hard Futurama fan, but it doesn't seem to be a strong "starting-off" point for the Futurama newbie.
