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Movies watched in November 2007

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Futurama: Bender's Big Score! (DTV) **

USA/South Korea: Dwayne Carey-Hill, 2007

As someone who thought the original run of Futurama was one of the funniest animated sitcoms around, this came like a punch in the gut. What a disappointment! It's rarely funny and, at 90 minutes, this direct to video movie is absurdly over-long. There isn't enough material to justify the running time, and most of the jokes feel like the sort that would have ended up on the cutting room floor in earlier years. True, it improves a bit after the first half-hour, but it's never a patch on the original series. The funniest joke is a none too subtle dig at one of their rivals in the form of the "Family Guy 12 laughs a year" calendar we see Fry putting up in one scene.

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