Bender's Big Score Review Thread

[halo7]

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Bender's Big Score

After 2 long years, we finally get new Futurama. When the film starts, you may get a little worried. The beginning is eerily similar to how Family Guy returned to us by dissing Fox in the first 2 minutes (and we all know how that turned out) but don't be fooled, you will get goosebumps when the opening theme begins to play and once the story really starts up we are approaching on classic Futurama territory that hasn't changed a bit, and thats a very very good thing.

So after being unaware they have been canceled for two years, the Planet Express team makes their first new delivery to a nudist planet. While there they get scammed by some disgusting alien "nudars" that leads to them accidentally selling their company and in turn, dooming the entire universe with the secret of time travel. Along the way, Leela falls in love with head museum worker Lars, leaving Fry depressed and angry. I also forgot to mention, Hermes gets his head cut off, and his wife leaves him for athlete Barbados Slim when he becomes just another Jarhead. As you can see, there many threads to the story, one would be worried they would all become jumbled and feel like 3 or 4 episodes just put together randomly. But luckily almost everything ties together in the end.

Futurama takes the bests features from both the Family Guy movie(self referential, fan pleasing jokes) and The Simpsons movie(action packed, funny, story more epic than a random episode, and emotional scenes) and combines them to make the better movie out of those three. The humor is of course retained and you will get lots of references to old episodes (and even be transported to some of them through time travel) The animation is better than your average episode but its not as good as The Simpsons Movie quality animation. You will see some pretty impressive space battles towards the end. But best of all Futurama's emotional core that most other animated shows currently lack is in full stride here. It might even squeeze a few tears out of the more sensitive viewers. The film has a pretty big twist that most people will see coming, but it is still very good. Every story thread is given a good ending, but the very end of the film is a tease of whats to come in the next film. If it is anything like what is in Bender's Big Score we are in for a bigger and better return than any of us predicted.

9/10

[Alien]

I just wanna know when the UK will get it

[FranklinTard]

its online by the way, so if you just wanna watch it beforehand... but i saw it last night and i thought it was a pretty solid addition to futurama. however it was not among their strongest episodes, still some good lines.

8/10

[Alien]

its online by the way, so if you just wanna watch it beforehand... but i saw it last night and i thought it was a pretty solid addition to futurama. however it was not among their strongest episodes, still some good lines.

8/10
I only download TV shows not movies.

[FranklinTard]

I only download TV shows not movies.

kind of a catch 22 with this one eh?

[Necross]

Buying this at work today :D

[MasterChief117]

I want this so bad, its painful.

[JBond]

Im buying this after I get out of school so I'm not going to read this yet. I'll try and have my thoughts on it soon!

[Tornado]

Just about to watch this, thoughts after.

[Tornado]

I thought it was pretty good. There are a few episodes throughout the series that have better stories (Roswell That Ends Well, Luck of the Fryrish, etc.), but it's a very solid story. The only thing that disappointed me was that I was extremely confident Fry was Lars from one of the first scenes with the latter. Despite that, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

8/10

[MasterChief117]

Might get it tommorow after doctors, maybe.

[Freelow]

The only thing that disappointed me was that I was extremely confident Fry was Lars from one of the first scenes with the latter. 8/10

I should have caught that, but I did not. It made me happy, but I did not catch it.

I enjoyed the movie, mostly because Futurama was back, but I did enjoy it overall. My head was close to exploding with all of the paradoxes.

FYI - keep an eye out for Apu from the Simpsons and Cartman from South Park.

Enjoy.

[JBond]

I thought it was awful. I wanted to like it, I really did. But it wasn't funny and the narrative was a huge mess. Besides that, they somehow managed to ruin 2-3 older episodes by self-referential jokes. Fry shoudl not have run into his dog (and to a lesser extent, his family), Bender freezing the dog didn't make any sense at all, nor did creating the spaceships that destroy the buildings from the pilot when Fry is frozen.

The movie made the same mistakes the return of Family Guy did, they spent waaaay too much time saying "woo-ee, look at us, we're back!". I can forgive them some for sticking in every well-loved character since it was a "movie", but there were so many in-jokes I just wanted new classic content.

That brings me to the story which could have been much better. The best thing the movie had going for it was the parallel Fry stories but it wasn't used to its full potential, not by a long shot. Ooo, my larynx? That was their solution?

All of this could be forgiven if the movie was funny, but it just wasn't. I may have laughed here and there, but nothign much. ("To the Manditorium!")

Anyways, I coudl say more, but it's too depressing to cut down on this movie. I'm sure I'll get flamed for "not being able to like new content" like I also do in these situations, but this is how I feel.

[halo7]

I thought it was awful. I wanted to like it, I really did. But it wasn't funny and the narrative was a huge mess. Besides that, they somehow managed to ruin 2-3 older episodes by self-referential jokes. Fry shoudl not have run into his dog (and to a lesser extent, his family), Bender freezing the dog didn't make any sense at all, nor did creating the spaceships that destroy the buildings from the pilot when Fry is frozen.

The movie made the same mistakes the return of Family Guy did, they spent waaaay too much time saying "woo-ee, look at us, we're back!". I can forgive them some for sticking in every well-loved character since it was a "movie", but there were so many in-jokes I just wanted new classic content.

That brings me to the story which could have been much better. The best thing the movie had going for it was the parallel Fry stories but it wasn't used to its full potential, not by a long shot. Ooo, my larynx? That was their solution?

All of this could be forgiven if the movie was funny, but it just wasn't. I may have laughed here and there, but nothign much. ("To the Manditorium!")

Anyways, I coudl say more, but it's too depressing to cut down on this movie. I'm sure I'll get flamed for "not being able to like new content" like I also do in these situations, but this is how I feel.

The Dog thing did make sense, if anything it made the episode about the dog make even more sense. That was supposed to be the fossilized copy of the dog they find, but since it was a paradox it was destroyed in the episode.

[Tornado]

Jibbs, how could you not like the new content?! You always do this!

Kidding. I can see your argument, I did get tired of seeing a bunch of the characters from the show. I'm glad they included Zapp and some of the more popular "second-string" characters, but there were a bunch that were unnecessary (Robot Santa? Kwanzaa Bot?).

After seeing all of the superfluous characters, I half-expected to see Zombie Jesus. ;)

[Ewok Droppings]

So, isn't this supposed to be the first of several straight to DVD movies for Futurama? I thought there was at least 3 coming out.

[slinger]

So, isn't this supposed to be the first of several straight to DVD movies for Futurama? I thought there was at least 3 coming out.

4 DVDs which will provide 16 episodes for Comedy Central.

[JBond]

The Dog thing did make sense, if anything it made the episode about the dog make even more sense. That was supposed to be the fossilized copy of the dog they find, but since it was a paradox it was destroyed in the episode.

We saw the dog die in the dog episode, in the movie it was alive when he "froze" it.

[Necross]

What animated show like Futurama doesn't do stuff like that? I know a lot of people here already don't like the Simpsons anymore but even way back when they did stuff that overrode other things.

I loved this movie.

[halo7]

We saw the dog die in the dog episode, in the movie it was alive when he "froze" it.

Therefore making it an alternate time paradox. Just like Lars. The "real" version of Fry's dog did indeed die. Think of every flashback we see as essentially an alternate dimension that is closed when Lars dies. ****ing Time Travel. The Fry we know and love, never sees his dog, or family ever again. Only alternate Fry in this alternate (now non-exsistant, as every paradox was destroyed) got to do any of that stuff.

[MasterChief117]

Here's a late review for people waiting it out.



Start of by saying, i'm a Futurama fan, so i might be a little forgiving on some stuff.



First off, this is one of the best Cartoon Series of all time, however it was cancled in it's 4th season on the air. The series was so good, that even Matt Groening(creator of Futurama and The Simpsons) even said that "He favored Futurama over The Simpsons".

Well, the movie begins with The Planet Express Company harshly burning the Fox Network for burning them(good joke with lights going from Box Network, To Fox Network). So one of there First Assignments sends them to a nudist planet. The crew however get misguided by a bunch of nudist scammers, destined to take over the planet scamming the hell out of people. Well, it comes down to it that the people of Planet Express are stupid and give away there savings(401k, bank money, Security Cards, The Planet Express Delivery). Then you find out that the entire world has been dumbed down to give away everything to these scams. Making the world powerless agaisnt these nudists. Well thats the story as i'm gonna tell it because i don't wanna give away to much information. The story was good and i think its a good way to start the 4 Movie launch.

I think this movie did a good job of getting all Futurama and non Futurama fans to like what they have always loved. It brings along what you want, Fun, stupid, sarcastic and dramatic humor. This movie to many people is just a 88 minute Futurama Episode, well if thats true, this is a really damn good episode. The side story between Fry and Lars(Another competition between him towards Leela). But I won't ruin the story there, however the side story is really the main plot, and you can tell it will lay stone to a future Romance plot.

Overall, I think the Cast and Crew of Futurama have been wanting to get the series going again, and why not, this show has got good humor and plots. The idea is if the movies sell good, then Fox will put it back on the table. Lets hope.

8.9/10

[sshuttari]

I really liked this movie. As episodes I don't see them working.

But as a movie it worked. I really liked that twist in the end, fry was the guy Leela fell in love with. I didn't catch it for some reason.

I also liked the whole scam subplot it was pretty good I have to admit.

anyone know when the next Futurama movie is coming out?

[slinger]

I thought it was awful. I wanted to like it, I really did. But it wasn't funny and the narrative was a huge mess. Besides that, they somehow managed to ruin 2-3 older episodes by self-referential jokes. Fry shoudl not have run into his dog (and to a lesser extent, his family), Bender freezing the dog didn't make any sense at all, nor did creating the spaceships that destroy the buildings from the pilot when Fry is frozen.

The movie made the same mistakes the return of Family Guy did, they spent waaaay too much time saying "woo-ee, look at us, we're back!". I can forgive them some for sticking in every well-loved character since it was a "movie", but there were so many in-jokes I just wanted new classic content.

That brings me to the story which could have been much better. The best thing the movie had going for it was the parallel Fry stories but it wasn't used to its full potential, not by a long shot. Ooo, my larynx? That was their solution?

All of this could be forgiven if the movie was funny, but it just wasn't. I may have laughed here and there, but nothign much. ("To the Manditorium!")

Anyways, I coudl say more, but it's too depressing to cut down on this movie. I'm sure I'll get flamed for "not being able to like new content" like I also do in these situations, but this is how I feel.

I too have to agree that it wasn't that funny but I still enjoyed it. I doubt the next three will be so focused on the past and will create their own mark. I have to wonder how much of a writing staff they had for this movie, have to look at the producers during the credits. Each regular episode had one writer credited for the story and the rest of the writing staff would be credited as producers and contribute in making the episode better.

[Tornado]

First off, this is one of the best Cartoon Series of all time, however it was cancled in it's 4th season on the air.

Two corrections:

1. It was cancelled during it's 5th season technically.
2. And it is the greatest cartoon series of all-time. ;)

Just finished watching it again, still loved it. Don't listen to Jibbs. ;)

[JBond]

Well, it had 4 production seasons. It'd be like saying Lost has had 5 seasons once it comes back after leaving soon.

And all must listen to me, pessimistic or not. ;)

[Papa]

4 DVDs which will provide 16 episodes for Comedy Central.

Wait, the movies are going to be episodes too? LAME

[slinger]

Wait, the movies are going to be episodes too? LAME

Well they're going to edit (take away and add new material) so they flow and fit into four 22 minute episodes with "To Be Continued..." and probably "Previously on Futurama..."

It was the only way these were going to get made. Comedy Central ordered 16 episodes and Matt made them movies.

[Ewok Droppings]

I really liked this movie. As episodes I don't see them working.

But as a movie it worked. I really liked that twist in the end, fry was the guy Leela fell in love with. I didn't catch it for some reason.

I also liked the whole scam subplot it was pretty good I have to admit.

anyone know when the next Futurama movie is coming out?

Why is it so difficult for people to use spoiler tags? Especially after they have posted a couple thousand times.

[Tornado]

Well, it had 4 production seasons. It'd be like saying Lost has had 5 seasons once it comes back after leaving soon.

And all must listen to me, pessimistic or not. ;)

True, but it had five broadcast seasons, which is what most shows use to describe their seasons.

[slinger]

Why is it so difficult for people to use spoiler tags? Especially after they have posted a couple thousand times.

I knew something was up when Billy West was voicing Lars. I thought Fox is that cheap they couldn't hire someone to guest and he sounds so similiar to Fry...

[sshuttari]

Why is it so difficult for people to use spoiler tags? Especially after they have posted a couple thousand times.

I did use a spolier tags there is nothing in my review that gives away anything.

[Tornado]

I did use a spolier tags there is nothing in my review that gives away anything.

No you didn't. When Ewok quoted you he tagged your post. Your original post is not tagged.

[Ewok Droppings]

I did use a spolier tags there is nothing in my review that gives away anything.

LOL - read your review again. You revealed the twist at the end. How is that not spoiler tag worthy? And you didn't use spoiler tags.

[sshuttari]

LOL - read your review again. You revealed the twist at the end. How is that not spoiler tag worthy? And you didn't use spoiler tags.

oh crap I see it now.