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Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) -- Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes.

Overview

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Director:
Dwayne Carey-Hill
Writers:
Matt Groening (creator) &
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Release Date:
27 marraskuu 2007 (USA) more
Tagline:
Just when you thought it was safe to watch something else! more
Plot:
Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes. | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
I didn't doubt they could do it, although some did! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Billy West ... Philip J. Fry / Dr. John Zoidberg / Prof. Hubert Farnsworth / Zapp Brannigan / God Entity / President Richard Nixon's Head / Lars Fillmore / Inuit #1 / Silly Willy Wideo Will Guy / Additional Voices (voice)

Katey Sagal ... Turanga Leela (voice)
John Di Maggio ... Bender Rodriguez / Barbados Slim / Robot Santa / Mr. Panucci / Elzar / Sal / Constantine / Curly Joe / Additional Voices (voice) (as John DiMaggio)
Tress MacNeille ... Linda / Dr. Cahill / Dr. Shlavinowitz / Turanga Munda / Tinny Tim / Hattie McDoogal / Leela's Wrist Thingy / Bender's Computer / Additional Voices (voice)

Maurice LaMarche ... Kif Kroker / Transition Announcer / Hedonismbot / Schlump / Morbo / Horrible Gelatinous Blob / Donbot / Clamps / Leelu / Cyrogenist / Leroy / Inuit #2 / Charles de Gaulle's Head / Headless Body of Agnew / Additional Voices (voice)

Phil LaMarr ... Hermes Conrad / Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate / Dwight Conrad / Philip Joshua Fry / Additional Voices (voice)

Lauren Tom ... Amy Wong / Philip J. Fry II / Additional Voices (voice)

David Herman ... Nudar / Scruffy / Turanga Morris / Terry / Father Changstein-El-Gamal / Nude Bartender / Sweet Clyde / Phillip Fry / 21st Century Newscaster / Additional Voices (voice)
Dawnn Lewis ... LaBarbara Conrad (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Cubert Farnsworth (voice)

Frank Welker ... Nibbler / Fleb / Seymour / Additional Voices (voice)

Coolio ... Kwanzabot (voice)
Al Gore ... Himself (voice)

Mark Hamill ... Chanukah Zombie (voice)
Tom Kenny ... Yancy Fry Jr. (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Futurama Movie (USA) (working title)
Futurama - Benderin jättikeikka (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The bunnies that the Neptunians are manufacturing is Bongo from Matt Groening's early comic 'Life in Hell'. more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: None of the duplicate Benders that are waiting in the limestone cavern under the Planet Express building have had their Obedience Virus or the time code deleted from them. Yet there was one Bender that did, and it is entirely possible that, when he went down there the last time, he was able to present all of the other Benders with the anti-virus. This makes sense when he states that he convinced them to come up at a different time than they should have, making it entirely possible for none of them to now have the virus. more
Quotes:
Professor Farnsworth: I'm sciencing as fast as I can! more
Movie Connections:
References "The Jetsons" (1962) more
Soundtrack:
30 Century Man more

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12 out of 19 people found the following comment useful:-
I didn't doubt they could do it, although some did!, 17 December 2007
8/10
Author: Gary Diamond from United Kingdom

I honestly thought this show was dead and would never come back. I only watch the episodes once a year because I don't want to wear out my favourite animated show. To hear of the comeback was great. To have to wait quite a while, not so much. Seeing the final product, a real joy and pleasant surprise.

To be sure, they're a little rusty in places. Some of the lines, especially in the initial third of the film, are questionable and would not have made the final cut under the regime that provided us with the standard series. Hermes, only occasionally an entertaining character, gets too much screen time in a somewhat superfluous side plot featuring his equally unentertaining wife and his irritating enemy Barbados Slim. The villains - the scammer aliens - are disgusting when they should be fearsome. These are the things that lose the film a perfect rating, and are the sorts of niggles I would have expected after such a long hiatus - after all, much of Family Guy's comeback season (number four) is terrible when stacked up to the classic old episodes and a fair few new ones.

But I marvel at what they did right. It retains much of the trademark dynamic writing, taking in some of the same unbelievable and jaw-dropping spins on science and human/alien relationships and making us laugh when explaining away the continuity errors the writers were aware were needed to create an engrossing story.

It makes good use of screen time and never drags it heels which I felt both the Family Guy and Simpsons features did. In the end, both of those other features were such a plot compromise, where you ended up had so little bearing on where you started you had to laugh unintentionally. With this Futurama feature although the plot is bombastic in the greatest sense of the word (like a Queen record for example) it ties up everything I wanted to know in a timely fashion using classic storytelling techniques - and where necessary awesome, seamless and not gratuitous 3DFX - throughout.

Now I've covered the good and the bad, it is time to address the ugly - the backlash. Some have moaned that there isn't enough humour in this feature. To be honest, one of my favourite features of the original series was getting us away from the old cliché which seems to doom a lot of animated shows, namely: Cartoon = Funny. Yes it has several moments of great humour - a nice fifty-fifty of building set pieces and incisive one-liners - but it balances them well with a poignant story which I think they pull off as well as 'The Devils Hands Are Idle Playthings' if you consider that they had to pace it out over nearly ninety minutes which is over four times the length of a standard episode. It's a tall order for almost any script writer used to cramming in the jokes in thirty minutes or less, but these writers don't have a lot of trouble with it.

Another point of contention with the hardcore fans has been what a few of them have called a hopelessly complicated plot. This makes me laugh because the hardcore brethren praise the show constantly for intelligent post-geek humour then with the same breath criticise this new installment for breaking out of the shows comfort zone to use that same intelligence to create a mind blowing story. They must have been watching a different movie because I stuck with almost every twist and turn with awe, and the few I haven't resolved yet will - like all great works of art - reveal themselves with further observation.

In closing - to you hardcore fans who say this isn't a patch on the original episodes, get off your soap box and think yourself lucky there's anything new at all and secondly, I bet you only grew to love those episodes through repeated viewings so stop being so hard on what is a logical continuation of a great premise! 8/10

(NOTE: For those new viewers who missed a lot of the in-jokes that spilled over from the original series and who aren't sure why there is such an abundance of characters, go and buy the Season 1-4 box set from Amazon or eBay and it'll all make perfect sense.)

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