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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1418 in DVD
• Brand: WEST,BILLY
• Released on: 2007-11-27
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Animated, Color, Surround Sound
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 88 minutes

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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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Customer Reviews

Somewhere in between
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
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?
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!