Futurama: Bender's Big Score

Review by Jason Gaston

Good news, every…

Sigh.

All right, I won’t start off the review like that but the release of Futurama: Bender’s Big Score is good news and it is for everybody! This is something that fans of one of… nay, the greatest animated series of all time have been hoping and praying for. The return of Futurama! It’s here, baby, and it’s is just as good as it always has been.

In Bender’s Big Score, nudist alien internet scammers reprogram our favorite thieving boozing robot buddy and send in back in time after Earth’s greatest treasures thanks to a mysterious tattoo on Fry’s ass (don’t ask). Can the Planet Express crew save the day before the space/time continuum collapses in on itself?

Man, it’s so great to see this show come back in such perfect form. Usually when animated shows are uncancelled, they return as a mere shell of their former glory (I’m talking to you, Family Guy). This time, however, it’s all on target… it’s as if the show never went off the air and stayed in top form.

I don’t want to go into plot because I would give too much stuff away and, believe me, this is a movie to be enjoyed and be surprised at (even if some of the surprises are painfully obvious from the beginning).

Needless to say, though, the laughs are back and too numerous to count and even the sci-fi ideals that are so sci-fi that sci-fi won’t even touch them. Here it all works! Bender’s Big Score even accomplishes the impossible deed of turning into a sprawling epic with cameos from almost every Futurama character from Zapp Brannigan to Al Gore (and, yes, Futurama invented him too).

I loved it. I’m loving it. I’m buying it. Hell, I’m buying two! If the sale of this DVD insures that we’ll get more Futurama of the same caliber, I’ll buy out every video store. Hell, college for my kids is something I’m willing to sacrifice.

Futurama’s back and that’s good news for everyone!