I just saw it today, and I give it five golden apples out of five–I loved the title sequence, I actually sniffled over Kif, and I like to think that Farnsworth and Wernstrom will be two grumpy, snarky, sarcastic old friends in the future.
I’m still not sure about Colleen, though. Didn’t we just get over the huge thing about Fry and Leela being True Love Forever?
Yeah, they never explained that. (They 'fess up to it in the commentary, too.) They never really resolved anything between the series finale and Big Score either. Whaddayagonnado?
Kif’s death really did surprise me. Until they held that shot on Zapp, I didn’t think they’d kill him, and until a few seconds from the end I thought he was gone for good. I really felt for Amy, which is an achievement considering how shallow she is.
Oh God, Zapp eating the peanut butter, jelly, and Kiff sandwich was gross and so hilarious and also sad after I found out he actually died. Then I laughed again when Zapp gave Amy the last picture taken of Kiff.
I’d give Bender’s Big Score a B-. The Beast with a Billion Backs is a solid B+
My favorite line? Mild Spoiler:
[spoiler]Zoidberg: I thought we were playing for our freedom!
Professor Farnsworth: No.
[/spoiler]
“Yivo can’t breathe outside the electric ether of schkler own universe! If schkle came here, schkle would schkluffocate!”
“No schklit?”
I was actually kind of disappointed. It didn’t have the heart that BBS had. I was really annoyed at the Colleen story, since BBS followed The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings in getting us really involved in Fry and Leela’s romance, and this didn’t explain why it had cooled off.
The storyline just wasn’t that interesting and I can hardly think of any laugh out loud funny parts. For some reason, the part that stood out as my favorite was the story about the human who wanted to go to the doc–. That robot cracked me up, does anyone know what his name is?
Did anyone catch what was on Colleen’s shirt in the church scene? IIRC it was [upside down A] [subscript x] I [heart symbol] X. I could be off by one or two characters. Does anyone know what it means?
Overall I feel pretty let down, but I didn’t like BBS after the first time, either, and absolutely fell in love with it on repeat viewings.
Big disappointment, I must say. No flow, just a bunch of random stories forced together.
The jokes were good, and there were some great one liners, but overall, I give it the lowest grade possible for a Futurama movie: an A–
The story had some potential up until Yivo revealed himself. I thought schkle would be a big nasty beast spawning with everyone, and Leela would have to save the universe by herself, but turns out schkle was just a pathetic loser who couldn’t get a date.
The whole robot counsel side story was pointless until the end of the movie. It felt as though the writers simply didn’t have a role for Bender, so they fabricated an unrelated story line for him, and every few minutes, cut to a scene of him talking about killing all humans.
As I recall, one of the biggest complaints about Bender’s Big Score was all the cameos and recycled gags. Beast with a Billion Backs is guilty of that as well: Snoo Snoo, Bender shitting bricks, Judge Whitey, Broken Bender with clickity clackers, the Grand Mid Wife, etc. Lots of :rolleyes: moments.
I hope #3 will be better.
It’s a logical sentence which reads, “for all values of x, I <heart> x,” i.e. “I <heart> everyone”. The upside-down A is the logical quantifier that loosely means “for all”. If you ever see a backwards E used in a similar context, that means “there exists”; if that had been used instead, her shirt would have meant “I <heart> someone.”
Edit: and the first x probably wasn’t a subscript, not that it makes much difference. Good memory anyway. 
Awesome! I knew someone would know it. Thanks.
That’s actually what I liked the most about the plot. The tentacle portion was a great, classic sci-fi plot, and then I felt they took it somewhere really new and weird. When they got to “heaven” Leela kept expecting some Twilight Zone-y dystopian twist where there was no free will or no real fun or anything. Nope. Yivo was really offering paradise.
Regardless of how you feel about the movie, there’s some parts that really seemed like the old Futurama. Remember when Bender was in the hospital and Leela said that they brought someone by to cheer him up and Bender says “I don’t need cheering up! I’m perfiectly ha…”
And then Calculon walks in. I found myself getting excited for Bender at that point because obviously Calculon is his hero.
“There, that was some free acting. Ordinarily for that kind of acting you’d have to sit through a tampon commercial”
I enjoyed it. I think they are thinking too much on how to break it up into the 30 minute episodes and that is where the story becomes a little disjointed. You can actually see where the commericals would go and where the episode ends.
Therefore every 20 odd minutes you get a climax and resolution which is odd when watching a movie. They don’t feel like acts they feel like individual episodes slammed together.
Perhaps if they had made them as episodes with the breaks it wouldn’t feel so odd.
The jokes were great but I’m kinda off put by the quick dismissal of the Fry/Leela thing. Considering now Leela knows Fry’s potential (Lars) you’d think she’d try to make him live up or at least sideways to it.
According to the commentary, his name is Duffer Robot.
I think you mean schklerself.
Oh, for the love . . . please don’t start an Old Futurama™ meme. The franchise has never been better than the last few episodes of season 4 and Bender’s Big Score.
Well “The problem with poplers” isn’t season 4…
I just like Futurama and even bad futurama is better than… (fill in show you dislike here)
Roswell that Ends Well?!?!
I was just looking at the list of episodes of Futurama and just realized how awesome it is. There’s seriously too many examples of a great episode in every season.
Personally I just wish that someone would bring them back on the air as a TV series 
I wasn’t crazy about it, mainly because of the whole Colleen subplot. It was a sloppy plot device created just for this movie - it just wasn’t realistic for me that after Leela realised Fry was her future soulmate, and after Fry realised he had a real chance with Leela, their relationship fizzled out and Fry fell head over heels with someone else. Bah.
I still enjoyed it, but it rated slightly below Bender’s Big Score for me.
Are we going by production seasons or airdate seasons?
Damnit, you busted my Nerd-O-Meter. AND I JUST GOT IT!
Probably just folded it and used one corner to cut the opposite corner off, then used that piece to cut the rest of it up.