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Okay........I don't know if any of you are Futurama fans, but I bought "Bender's Big Score" it retails for $19.99 at Wal Mart, you'll pay about $25.00 or so for it at BestBuy if it isn't on sale.
The direct to DVD movie release is a little over three episodes in length.
I can't go through the whole maze of the plot, there are a lot of flashbacks and backstory.
I am also lazy. You are surprised I sense........
Anyhoo......
PlanetExpress Delivery Comapny is back in business after two years of being out of business. The people who cancelled their "deliveries" at the "Box" network die horrible deaths and they are hired again.
Their first delivery is to a nude beach planet where a bunch of naked aliens access everyone's personal computers with a virus, including Bender himself to scam them out of their personal property. Through this action the naked aliens acquire Planet Express Company from Profesor Farnsworth and launch more scams with Planet Express as their new base of operations eventually gaining the posession of the entire Earth.
Bender... through the alien's virus he uploaded is forced to do the alien's bidding. Unknown to Fry he has a tattoo on his behind that holds the secret to time travel the aliens find the tattoo, decipher the code and sends Bendre back in time to steal earth treasures for the aliens. The time trave starts numerous (Time Traveller am I correct in the terminology?) paradoxes/multiples of one character ....that are destined for destruction.
During all of this while multiple Benders, Frys and other characters are loose in the time stream wreaking havok with the future, Leela falls in love with a man named Lars.......there are two really really *crappy* musical numbers One featuring the down and out Planet Express crew, and one with Santa Claws, Kwanzaa Bot and the Hanukkah Zombie.
The Nibblonians show up in "Kitten Class" fighters at one point to fight the aliens and there's plenty of Zoidberg for a change.....and that's about that.
I won't ruin the ending for you.
I watched the movie both drunk (experiment) and sober (control) and there was no noticible difference in plot or humor.
There is quite an extensive extras section on the DVD including a featurette on the matematics of the Futurama universe by a North Carolina University professor (Appalachian) named Dr. Sarah Greenwald.
Doesn't matter where in the world you go...North Carolina is always connected.
There are also storyboard comparisons, creator commentary tracks on the movie audio, a commercial voiced by Al Gore, and computer animation schematics, and an episode of the show "Everyone Loves Hypnotoad" Watch it, those who watch are rewarded with fake Future product commercials.
You know........
I was one of the six rabid fans that took it upon herself to help hound Fox to death with e-mails, letters, and unholy black magic until they made something Futurama. This DVD release was the evil fruit of our labors.
The movie is okay if you take it for what it is.....but it was merely the tossing of a bone to Futurama fans shut them up for awhile. I bought it hoping it might help bring the series back. DVD sales brought back Family Guy....... but if the Comedy Central series is going to be like the movie, I'm going to watch re-runs of the old Fox series.
But this is merely my opinion, I don't mean to make up your mind for you.
The direct to DVD movie release is a little over three episodes in length.
I can't go through the whole maze of the plot, there are a lot of flashbacks and backstory.
I am also lazy. You are surprised I sense........
Anyhoo......
PlanetExpress Delivery Comapny is back in business after two years of being out of business. The people who cancelled their "deliveries" at the "Box" network die horrible deaths and they are hired again.
Their first delivery is to a nude beach planet where a bunch of naked aliens access everyone's personal computers with a virus, including Bender himself to scam them out of their personal property. Through this action the naked aliens acquire Planet Express Company from Profesor Farnsworth and launch more scams with Planet Express as their new base of operations eventually gaining the posession of the entire Earth.
Bender... through the alien's virus he uploaded is forced to do the alien's bidding. Unknown to Fry he has a tattoo on his behind that holds the secret to time travel the aliens find the tattoo, decipher the code and sends Bendre back in time to steal earth treasures for the aliens. The time trave starts numerous (Time Traveller am I correct in the terminology?) paradoxes/multiples of one character ....that are destined for destruction.
During all of this while multiple Benders, Frys and other characters are loose in the time stream wreaking havok with the future, Leela falls in love with a man named Lars.......there are two really really *crappy* musical numbers One featuring the down and out Planet Express crew, and one with Santa Claws, Kwanzaa Bot and the Hanukkah Zombie.
The Nibblonians show up in "Kitten Class" fighters at one point to fight the aliens and there's plenty of Zoidberg for a change.....and that's about that.
I won't ruin the ending for you.
I watched the movie both drunk (experiment) and sober (control) and there was no noticible difference in plot or humor.
There is quite an extensive extras section on the DVD including a featurette on the matematics of the Futurama universe by a North Carolina University professor (Appalachian) named Dr. Sarah Greenwald.
Doesn't matter where in the world you go...North Carolina is always connected.
There are also storyboard comparisons, creator commentary tracks on the movie audio, a commercial voiced by Al Gore, and computer animation schematics, and an episode of the show "Everyone Loves Hypnotoad" Watch it, those who watch are rewarded with fake Future product commercials.
You know........
I was one of the six rabid fans that took it upon herself to help hound Fox to death with e-mails, letters, and unholy black magic until they made something Futurama. This DVD release was the evil fruit of our labors.
The movie is okay if you take it for what it is.....but it was merely the tossing of a bone to Futurama fans shut them up for awhile. I bought it hoping it might help bring the series back. DVD sales brought back Family Guy....... but if the Comedy Central series is going to be like the movie, I'm going to watch re-runs of the old Fox series.
But this is merely my opinion, I don't mean to make up your mind for you.
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Huge Futurama fan here.
The reason it was cancelled is football.
Now, don't get me wrong, I loves me some football.
Fox, however, put Futurama in the Sunday night, 7:00 PM slot, and it was almost always pre-empted by games running over. So, all new episodes were not shown.
From there, when an episode did get shown, it would be the only one that would get repeated as well. So, what should have been an entire season of Futurama ended up being three episodes each shown 5 times in one year. The other episodes that should have run in the off season were pre-empted by Nascar or other special presentations or an entire night of the Simpsons (a night where they would play six episdoes of the Simpsons, when the Simpsons had never been pre-empted).
Futurama did not get ratings, as it was hardly ever shown, and thus went the way of the dinobot.
Fox has also used this time-slot to purposely kill at least three other shows that they kept having editorial problems with.
The reason it was cancelled is football.
Now, don't get me wrong, I loves me some football.
Fox, however, put Futurama in the Sunday night, 7:00 PM slot, and it was almost always pre-empted by games running over. So, all new episodes were not shown.
From there, when an episode did get shown, it would be the only one that would get repeated as well. So, what should have been an entire season of Futurama ended up being three episodes each shown 5 times in one year. The other episodes that should have run in the off season were pre-empted by Nascar or other special presentations or an entire night of the Simpsons (a night where they would play six episdoes of the Simpsons, when the Simpsons had never been pre-empted).
Futurama did not get ratings, as it was hardly ever shown, and thus went the way of the dinobot.
Fox has also used this time-slot to purposely kill at least three other shows that they kept having editorial problems with.
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Here's a movie review for ya'! 
I was forced to watch "Barbie Island Princess" this afternoon because my niece was here visiting and my sister won't let her watch Kill Bill.
I think it is a shame that John Milton didn't live in this time so he could add it to "Paradise Lost" and make watching this movie one of the levels of HE double hockey sticks. I would rather eat Bunker Hill chili filled chocolate covered doughnuts chin deep in poop than see this again.
The story is about a girl who is a princess
who is really thinly veiled blatant product placement whose parents go on a wonderful sailing trip that turns into disaster. 
The product placement...I mean Barbie is swept overboard during a terrible storm, but is unfortunately rescued by dolphins and taken to a magical island filled with anthropomorphic aminals who raise the young princess. She learns all the aminal languages on the island and makes the critters that inhabit the island her friends in lieu of human contact. If anyone else did it they'd be an anti-social freak, but Barbie makes it cute!
Barbie's best friends are a turtle, dolphins, and a white monkey.....(who was actually cool looking, but even the coolness of a talking monkey cannot save this mind BEEP of a movie)
One day the princess goes swimming and a big ship comes bearing a prince 
who falls in love with the island princess and he takes her home with him 'cause he's in loooooooooove with her by hootie and the blowfish!
Being selfish and not caring that dolphins, monkeys, and turtles don't want to...or have any business living in a castle, Barbie drags her aminal friends to be with her and the prince.
But there's a juicy snag.........
The prince is already betrothed to another girl and she's not nice!
A brunette of course! And she has a conniving mother with an agenda of her own who is as ugly as homemade soup!
The brunette princess and her not nice brunette (but greying) mother pull a lot of nasty tricks on Barbie to make the prince not love her like stealing things and blaming her and Barbie's aminal friends or making #2 on the royal rugs! (okay I added that last one)
But the animals foil the bad brunette princess by proving that she is a liar to the prince.... paving the way for Barbie and the prince to get married and live happily ever after. With all the critters too. 
Of course some facts may have been lost, because I was reading a book about the Norman conquest of England off and on while this was playing.
I was forced to watch "Barbie Island Princess" this afternoon because my niece was here visiting and my sister won't let her watch Kill Bill.
I think it is a shame that John Milton didn't live in this time so he could add it to "Paradise Lost" and make watching this movie one of the levels of HE double hockey sticks. I would rather eat Bunker Hill chili filled chocolate covered doughnuts chin deep in poop than see this again.
The story is about a girl who is a princess
who is really thinly veiled blatant product placement whose parents go on a wonderful sailing trip that turns into disaster. The product placement...I mean Barbie is swept overboard during a terrible storm, but is unfortunately rescued by dolphins and taken to a magical island filled with anthropomorphic aminals who raise the young princess. She learns all the aminal languages on the island and makes the critters that inhabit the island her friends in lieu of human contact. If anyone else did it they'd be an anti-social freak, but Barbie makes it cute!
Barbie's best friends are a turtle, dolphins, and a white monkey.....(who was actually cool looking, but even the coolness of a talking monkey cannot save this mind BEEP of a movie)
One day the princess goes swimming and a big ship
comes bearing a prince who falls in love with the island princess and he takes her home with him 'cause he's in loooooooooove with her by hootie and the blowfish! Being selfish and not caring that dolphins, monkeys, and turtles don't want to...or have any business living in a castle, Barbie drags her aminal friends to be with her and the prince.
But there's a juicy snag.........
The prince is already betrothed to another girl and she's not nice!
A brunette of course!
And she has a conniving mother with an agenda of her own who is as ugly as homemade soup!The brunette princess and her not nice brunette (but greying) mother pull a lot of nasty tricks on Barbie to make the prince not love her like stealing things and blaming her and Barbie's aminal friends or making #2 on the royal rugs! (okay I added that last one)
But the animals foil the bad brunette princess by proving that she is a liar to the prince.... paving the way for Barbie and the prince to get married and live happily ever after.
With all the critters too. Of course some facts may have been lost, because I was reading a book about the Norman conquest of England off and on while this was playing.
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Sounds great! I'm gonna go get it right now! Are they gonna make a sequel?
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movie review
i have seen a three bourne movies they are great
the gameplan havent seen it yet
spiderman three wasnt that great
fantastic 4 rise of the silver surfer was good
rush hour three was alright not as good as 1 and 2 like SP said
the gameplan havent seen it yet
spiderman three wasnt that great
fantastic 4 rise of the silver surfer was good
rush hour three was alright not as good as 1 and 2 like SP said
