Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007)

Sadly Over-hyped

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Being a fan of time travel and Futurama, I could only say that this movie combines perfectly both of my pleasures.If you loved the original Futurama, this movie depicts a higher quality in 3D graphic animation than the original series (no wonder, it was made 3 years after the series cancellation).The plot is simply genius and it also shows a lot of back flashes related to previous seasons, as well as introducing/continuing Fry and Leela's romance story.Overall, this movie is a must to watch for any fan of time travel adventures but if you never watched the series you may not understand some of the sequences or recurring jokes.

I watched this movie b/c ran out of Futurama episodes - wow! I was impressed. Especially it's a Hollywood production (USA) production.It's filled with sci-fi, drama, romance - in a nice, natural way! I didn't like Futurama first, b/c I was still emotionally attached to the Simpsons.But seriously, Futurama is a different breed of adult animation - with wits, sense of humor, in your face nerdy sci-fi elements, sarcasm that you can't find anywhere.Family Guy and her league of copy-cat can take a hike - they just don't have talents like Goeing & Cohen.Hail Goeing & Cohen for their everlasting creativeness!!!

Not that I didn't enjoy parts of this movie and it certainly tops the dismal Family Guy features, the story is a bit too in love with being clever than actually producing enough laughs. The first third is hilarious, involving Bender who stupidly downloads a virus into his system. He becomes a slave to the most vile, naked aliens you have ever seen, but hey, they are pretty funny.However, the subplots (and there are many) are distracting and though they come together somewhat nicely in the end, you wish you could just skip them and see more of Bender. Fry is given the most important storyline of course, but I think that the convoluted plot he's a part of does seem kind of boring. The big revelation at the end doesn't feel particularly surprising and it's glossed over with no real finish. Maybe it was too hard to find yet another reason to discuss a time travel paradox and we just get a repetition of the first reason.Anyway, the movie does deliver what it set out to do but you do wonder what the obligatory attack on the Fox, excuse me, Box Network is all about. Was it so terrible to cancel a show after four seasons? The Futurama nerds will probably say yes, but I am not so sure.

Casual fan of the original series here, always respected the ingenuity and wit of Futurama enough to sit down and give it a spare half hour, so to be blunt, I'm not the breed of obsessive fan you'll find at the conventions.And yet, I too feel disappointed after watching this feature length outing. Like all good science fiction the brilliance of Futurama (the series) was in how the other worldly setting gave enormous capacity to say things about our modern world, funny things and sometimes touching things in the case of the series. That's all gone with the film, instead we're heavily into self-reference territory - making poor jokes about New New York in 3007 rather than funny ones about New York 2007, so one of Futurama's enormous strengths is gone. It's the major gaping hole in this picture.It's variously bad for other reasons, not the least the over-use of the time travel mechanism to tell the story - which is bad news whatever the story. The songs are nowhere near the regular standard of the Simpsons/Futurama stable and cemented with nerry a care for the dialogue surrounding them. The cameos fail too - if Al Gore isn't going to have any funny lines, why not just have an impersonator read them?To sum up, let me explain the shallow depth of the humour we have here. It doesn't spoil too much to inform that in the denouement our villains employ a field of golden death stars. That's a 12-year-old's idea of funny/cool. For the rest of us, it's a cheap, tacky, sloppy solution from the writers to the problem of how to stage a final battle scene.Stick the TV re-runs instead folks.