Futurama: Bender's Big Score

Movie
German title	Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Original title	Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2007
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Dwayne Carey-Hill
script	Ken Keeler
production	David X. Cohen Matt Groening Lee Supercinski Claudia Katz
music	Christopher Tyng
cut	Paul D. Calder
synchronization
chronology
Successor  → Futurama: The Era of the Tentacle

Futurama: Bender's Big Score is a science fiction - Cartoons feature-length from the year 2007 , which on the television series Futurama is based. The direct-to-DVD production was released in the US on 27 November 2007, the German version on March 28, 2008. represents the three subsequent films Bender's Big Score , the fifth and sixth production transmission season of Futurama . Each of the Films were divided into four episodes for television release. The first broadcasts of Bender's Big Score was on 23 March 2008 at the American broadcaster Comedy Central instead. The film thus delivered episodes 73 to 76 of the television series.

The script was written by Ken Keeler , based on a story by himself and David X. Cohen . Directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill ; Guest appearances by Coolio , Al Gore , Mark Hamill , Tom Kenny and Sarah Silverman . The film won an Annie Award .

action

Two years ago, those in charge of the Box Network terminated the contract with Planet Express . Now those responsible have been fired and Planet Express is back in business. They're giving a party where Hermes is beheaded by a saber while drinking a limbo . Lars, the man who preserves Hermes' head in a jar, is drawn to Leela, much to Fry's annoyance.

During a delivery to a nude beach planet, Fry discovers a tattoo of Bender on his bum that he didn't know about. On the beach, fraudulent aliens want the crew's email addresses with flimsy arguments. The aliens then send spam to the entire crew , to which everyone replies, and Bender is infected by a virus in the process. After Professor Farnsworth has given his business to the fraudsters, they show themselves and take it over. The virus forces Bender to follow the aliens' instructions. They're also sniffing out the tattoo on Fry's bum that contains the code for paradox- correcting time travel . Nibbler reveals that the code could blow up the universe, but the crooks ignore it.

Since only time travel into the past is possible, the scammers force Bender to steal valuable objects from the past. He waits in the cave under Planet Express because he can survive as a robot for thousands of years. Driven by poverty, the professor sells his inventions and the aliens learn about the “ doomsday device”, which Bender then steals from the professor. Hermes asks Bender if he can steal an earlier version of his body to replace it, but Dr. Zoidberg's head the wrong way round on the body. The professor discovers that all duplicates are doomed to die. Meanwhile, Leela and Lars meet on several dates, leaving Fry bitter and desperate.

When Bender stole everything valuable from the past, the crooks consider the code too dangerous to use again, so they decide to destroy it by killing Fry and erasing Bender's memory. However, Fry escapes and travels on January 1, 2000, the day Fry was frozen. Bender is sent back in time to kill Fry. He creates a duplicate of himself when he has to go to the bathroom for the first time in his life. The Bender duplicate can provide Fry when he arrives in the past, but then experiences an emotional crisis which - together with the urge to urinate - leads to an overload, so that Fry can surprise him and freeze him in a cryocell. Fry manages to escape and Bender searches for him for the next twelve years until he finds him and kills him when he goes to Panucci's pizza shop.

Bender returns to the future to report his supposed success. The scammers then delete the code and virus from Bender's memory. When the crew tries to mourn Fry, Fry appears out of nowhere. He declares that he created a duplicate which Bender's duplicate faces and remains in the past. Fry himself accidentally falls into his own cryocell and continues the time when he wakes up. Nibbler removes the tattoo from Fry's bum so the scammers can no longer use it. Everyone is now living in poverty because of the scammers when Lars and Leela decide to get married. At the wedding, Hermes is accidentally beheaded again and his duplicated body is crushed by a chandelier . The professor explains that duplicates are inevitably doomed, and Lars cancels the wedding.

Earth President Richard Nixon is betrayed by the aliens so that everyone must be evacuated from Earth. In an attempt to recapture the earth, the population assembles an attack fleet to destroy the deceiver's fleet of golden death stars, which is only possible thanks to Hermes' bureaucratic head connected to the battle computer.

In the last attempt by the fraudsters, they want to kill the crew with the “doomsday device”, but Bender has stolen it from them beforehand. The crew fires the device at the scam's ship and destroys it. After everyone has returned to Earth, the world's population celebrates New Year 3008. Bender is honored for his actions and Hermes gets his original body back.

Fry sees that Leela is troubled after the breakup with Lars and brings her and Lars back together in the cryogen laboratory. The reunification is disrupted by Nudar, the leader of the scammers, who survived the doomsday device explosion. Nudar says the time code is still on Lars' bottom. He tricked him and blew himself and Nudar up with the damned duplicate of Bender; all that remains is his tattoo. A flashback explains that Lars is Fry's duplicate, who survived Bender's attack and whose face and voice were changed by the smoke and fire of the explosion. The duplicate recognizes that he is Lars and freezes himself in the crygen lab to be with Leela. After realizing that all the duplicates are doomed, he cancels the wedding to spare Leela the pain of his death, which he explains in his video will.

During the funeral, Bender removes the tattoo and travels back in time to give Fry the tattoo in his cryo-sleep so it all makes sense. On the way into the future, Bender encounters all of his duplicates of his foray and tells them to listen to him so that in the end they all appear with him. However, the duplicates begin to explode, creating a rift in the universe. This is the subject of the sequel, The Era of the Tentacle .

synchronization

character	English speaker	German speaker
Philip J. Fry	Billy West	Dirk Meyer
Professor Hubert Farnsworth		Thomas Reiner
Dr. Zoidberg		Manfred Erdmann
Lars Fillmore		Frank Röth
Zapp Brannigan		Crock Krumbiegel
Richard Nixon		Tommi Piper
Turanga Leela	Katey Sagal	Marion Sawatzki
Bender Rodriguez	John DiMaggio	Hans-Rainer Müller
Robot Santa		Thomas Albus
Barbados Slim		Thomas Albus
Kif Kroker	Maurice LaMarche	Kai Taschner
Hermes Conrad	Phil LaMarr	Michael Rüth
Amy Wong	Lauren Tom	Shandra Schadt
Nudar	David Herman	Gudo Hoegel
LaBarbara Conrad	Dawnn Lewis	Kathrin Simon
Cubert Farnsworth	Kath Soucie	Cedric Tafelmaier
Nibbler	Frank Welker	Tommi Piper
Kwanzaa Bot	Coolio
Al Gore	Al Gore	Michael Schwarzmaier
Chanukah zombie	Mark Hamill
Yancy Fry	Tom Kenny	Gerd Meyer
Michelle	Sarah Silverman

production

In February 2007, Matt Groening confirmed speculation that new Futura material would be released as either a season or a feature film. He explained that the production team is preparing four films, which will then be edited, rebuilt and with a different plot to function as a separate season.

A preview was shown at Comic-Con International 2007. At the Comic-Con it was also reported that the films are to be split into four episodes each for broadcasting, so that a fifth season with 16 episodes is created. The recording of the English voice actors ended on July 3, 2007. The official trailer was released in the US on October 10, 2007.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score is the first climate-neutral DVD released by 20th Century Fox. The DVD also includes A Horrifying News from Al Gore , an animated short to promote Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth .

Charisma

Bender's Big Score first aired on Comedy Central on March 23, 2008 . The film was broadcast in four episodes, the extended opening credits were shortened and placed before the scene of Hermes' beheading. The episodes open the fifth production and sixth season of the series. In the total count of the episodes they occupy the numbers 73 to 76.

The German dubbed version of the split into episodes television version ran for the first time as of 19 September 2010 at the television each Sunday afternoon around 17:00 at ProSieben . The first episode delivered “disappointing” audience ratings, according to the industry portal DWDL.de : “Only 650,000 viewers saw the first new episode in six years. In the advertising-relevant target group, 'Futurama' did not get beyond a disappointing market share of 8.9 percent. The repetition of the very first episode of the series went much better afterwards. From 5:30 p.m. the number of viewers increased to 820,000 and the market share rose to a reasonably decent 11.0 percent. "

Publication and sales

Bender's Big Score was released on DVD in the US on November 27, 2007 and the film was also released on Universal Media Disc . In its first week of sales, the DVD sold 222,036 units in the United States. This resulted in sales of US $ 3,994,428. As of October 26, 2008, 925,065 DVDs had been sold in the United States for total sales of $ 16,766,750.

Awards

• 2007 Annie Award (Best Home Entertainment Production)

Web links

• Futurama: Bender's Big Score in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Futurama: Bender's Big Score in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Futon Critic Staff: COMEDY CENTRAL'S 'SOUTH PARK,' 'LIL' BUSH, 'MORE TO RETURN IN MARCH. February 7, 2008, accessed March 30, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rhymes with Raining . Crave Online. February 26, 2007. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 30, 2010. 
3. ↑ Good News Everyone! 'Futurama' film footage . tvblogger. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 30, 2010. 
4. ↑ TV Blogger: Comic-Con: The 'Futurama' is Clear . tvblogger.org. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 30, 2010. 
5. ↑ Eric Goldman: Exclusive: Futurama Actress Gives Update . Retrieved December 30, 2010.
6. ↑ News Corporation ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Uwe Mantel: After 6 years: "Futurama" with a poor comeback. In: DWDL.de . September 20, 2010, accessed November 6, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Futurama: Bender's Big Score DVD. In: Blu-ray.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012 . 
9. ^ Niche Medium Releases. In: The Infosphere. Retrieved November 1, 2012 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Futurama - Bender's Big Score - DVD sales . Retrieved December 30, 2010.
11. ^ 35th Annual Annie Nominations and Awards Recipients International Animated Film Society.