Futurama: Bender's Big Score
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Futurama: Bender's Big Score (or Bender's Big Score) is a 2007 American animated
Special appearances include
Plot
Two years after Box Network executives canceled Planet Express's contract, the executives are fired and Planet Express is back "on the air." As the crew celebrates,
During a delivery to a nude beach planet, Leela discovers a tattoo of Bender on Fry's buttocks. Three alien scammers — Nudar, Fleb and Schlump — obtain the crew's personal information and infect Bender with an obedience virus, allowing them to seize control of Planet Express. The scammers discover that Fry's tattoo has a code that allows time travel into the past.
The scammers have Bender use the code to steal valuable objects from Earth's past and a doomsday device from Professor Farnsworth, storing them in a cave beneath the Planet Express building. Hermes has Bender retrieve an earlier version of his body so he can win back his wife. Leela and Lars date, further depressing Fry.
Once the scammers have history's treasures, they decide to eliminate the time code by killing Fry. Fry uses the code to escape to January 1, 2000, just after he was frozen. The scammers send Bender after him. Bender arrives before Fry, creating a duplicate of himself when he has to use the bathroom. Another Bender from "way at the end" appears, opens Fry's cryogenic tube and puts the tattoo on his butt. When Fry arrives, the first Bender duplicate inadvertently initiates a self-destruct due to not going to the bathroom. Fry shoves that Bender into another tube, then escapes. The original Bender spends 12 years hunting Fry before seemingly killing him by blowing up his apartment.
Bender reports his success to the scammers, who erase the time code and the virus. The crew holds a memorial for Fry, but he suddenly appears. Fry says he created a duplicate of himself, which remained in the past while he accidentally fell into his cryo-tube alongside his original 2000 self. Awaking 1,000 years later, the present Fry froze himself until the current year. The Fry duplicate spent the years before Bender's attack working at Panucci's Pizzeria, then at an aquarium caring for Leelu, an orphaned narwhal. He also spent time with his family and tended to his beloved dog Seymour Asses. Nibbler removes the tattoo from Fry to prevent further abuse from the scammers. Leela and Lars decide to marry, but during the wedding, Hermes is again decapitated. Farnsworth says that Hermes' body would have died anyway; time paradox duplicates are doomed to die prematurely. Lars panics and leaves Leela.
The scammers trick
Fry arranges for Leela and Lars to reconcile at the cryogenic lab. Having survived the attack, Nudar ambushes them. Lars tricks Nudar into approaching the Bender duplicate on self-destruct and holds them down as the duplicate explodes, killing them. The explosion reveals the Bender tattoo on Lars, revealing him as the Fry duplicate who survived Bender's attack in 2012 and froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela; he ultimately canceled the wedding to spare Leela the pain of his death as a time paradox duplicate.
Bender removes Lars' tattoo and travels to 2000 to place it on Fry in the cryogenic tube so that the events that transpired "make any sense at all". Upon returning, Bender emerges with all the duplicates from his stealing sprees. Nibbler urges everyone to evacuate the universe before swallowing himself. The Bender duplicates explode,
Cast
- Zapp Brannigan, Additional voices
- Katey Sagal as Leela
- Barbados Slim, Additional voices
- Tress MacNeille as Additional voices
- Maurice LaMarche as Schlump, Additional voices
- Hermes Conrad, Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, Additional voices
- Amy Wong, Additional voices
- David Herman as Nudar, Additional voices
- LaBarbara Conrad
- Cubert Farnsworth
- Nibbler, Fleb, Additional voices
- Kwanzaa-bot
- Himself
- Chanukah Zombie
- Tom Kenny as Yancy Fry, Jr.
- Michelle
Production
In February 2007, Futurama co-creator
Music
In addition to the background musical score, the movie contains two original "movie musical" style songs by Ken Keeler that the characters perform in context. The song "I May As Well Jump" (also referred to as "Street Song") exposited the dissatisfaction of most of the characters with the ways their lives were progressing at that point in the plotline, except for Lars and Leela, who were contrastingly delighted to announce their happiness and their upcoming marriage. The song "This Trinity's Goin' to War" (also referred to as "This Toyshop's Goin' to War") exposited the plans of Robot Santa, Chanukah Zombie, and Kwanzaa-bot to provide military support to assist in the liberation of Earth. The movie also contains a cover of Scott Walker's "30 Century Man" performed by The Jigsaw Seen.
Release
Bender's Big Score made its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central on March 23, 2008.
In the broadcast premiere, the extended opening from the film is placed before the scene where Hermes is decapitated as opposed to after it. The first two scenes in the montage of Leela and Lars' dates were cut. The original opening subtitle "IT JUST WON'T STAY DEAD!" is kept as the opening subtitle of the first part. The three additional opening captions are: "Watch, Rinse, Repeat", "Apply directly to the foreclaw" (a reference to HeadOn), and "Last Known Transmission of the Hubble Telescope." The billboard scene in all four is identical to the single scene in the film, a snippet from "Space Pilot 3000" where Fry gets frozen.
Home media
Futurama: Bender's Big Score is the first
Reception
In its first week, the DVD sold 222,036 units, for a total of $3,994,428.[9] As of July 24, 2008, The Numbers reports DVD sales stand at 920,023, for a total of $16,662,212.[9]
The film holds a 100% rating on
Torgo's Executive Powder
Torgo's Executive Powder is an elaborate
References
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- ^ Tarnoff, Brooke. "Futurama : Bender's Big Score Review". Archived from the original on November 18, 2007. Retrieved November 16, 2007.
- ^ Iverson, Dan (November 19, 2007). "Futurama: Bender's Big Score Review". IGN. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
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- ^ Audio commentary for Bender's Game.
Notes
- ^ Credited as "30th Century Fox Television".
External links
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score at AllMovie
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score at IMDb
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score at Rotten Tomatoes
- Press Release
- Bender's Big Score at The Infosphere.