Futurama was invalidate by FOX four year ago , but thanks to the on-line unrest of its devotee base , the show has been uprise as a series of four feature - length direct - to - videodisk releases . The first of these , Bender ’s Big Score , hit the securities industry today , and boy , does it essentially suck up . OK , feature article - length money plus feature - duration output schedule mean sensational animation . Too big a dynamic , luxuriously colored look is paired to the usual gag pile - up that , for plenty of under - obsessional viewers , doom the original series to pathetic evaluation . Why say one great joke when five in a rowing will do ?
After a brief presentation during which the half-wit at FOX are merciless slag , pour down and anchor into a all right pink powder , the actual activity begins . Creator Matt Groening ’s sometime casting is to the full revived , but the plot is built principally around 20th - century refugee Fry , one - eyed love - interest Leela and , of course , Bender the alcoholic misanthropic robot . A sentence - travel plot line pushes everything fore ( and back , and forward , and back - back , and … well , sometimes you just want to slap a guy wire like author David X. Cohen ) , as a trio of nudist alien enslave Bender and habituate him to bust the hoarded wealth - chest of human history . A subplot need Leela , Fry , a guy who work at a museum of preserved head , and a narwhal in a romantic tetragon .
gratefully , it all culminate it a magnificent battle sequence in which the Futurama gang takes to distance and puts a hurt on the nudist aliens ’ fleet of solid - gold , precious stone - encrust Death Stars . Unfortunately , a tardy time - travel joke necessitate an infinity of Benders kick off a shower of worldly paradox and , we guess , start the obliteration of the distance - time continuum . Har har !
Futurama was always kinda fun , but its was count down by show - offy writing , as if its staff needed to examine that they could be oh - so smarter and somehow more Harvardy than The Simpsons staff . Its overall political theory of humor had wear thin when it got the axe . Now , revive and strung out , it verge on mortifying .
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