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Futurama: Bender's Big Score is a animated direct-to-video movie based on the animated series Futurama.

Plot
Two years after Box Network executives canceled Planet Express' contract, the executives are fired and Planet Express is back "on the air." As the crew celebrates, Hermes is decapitated, causing his wife LaBarbara to leave him. His head is placed in a jar while his body is repaired. Lars, who performs the procedure, flirts with Leela, much to Fry's chagrin.

During a delivery to a nude beach planet, Leela discovers a tattoo of Bender on Fry's buttocks. Alien scammers (Nudar, Fleb and Schlump) obtain the crew's personal information and infect Bender with an obedience virus, allowing them to seize control of Planet Express. The scammers discover that Fry's tattoo has a code that allows time travel into the past. Nibbler warns the scammers against using the code.

The scammers have Bender use the code to steal valuable objects from Earth's past, storing them in a cave beneath the Planet Express building. Hermes has Bender retrieve an earlier version of his body so he can win back his wife. Leela and Lars date, further depressing Fry.

Once the scammers have history's treasures, they decide to eliminate the time code by killing Fry. Fry uses the code to escape to January 1, 2000, just after he was frozen. The scammers send Bender after him. Bender arrives before Fry, creating a duplicate of himself when he has to use the bathroom. Another Bender from "way at the end" appears, opens Fry's cryogenic tube and puts the tattoo on his butt. When Fry arrives, the first duplicate of Bender inadvertently initiates a self-destruct due to not going to the bathroom. Fry shoves that Bender into another tube, then escapes. The original Bender spends twelve years hunting Fry before seemingly killing him by blowing up his apartment.

Bender reports his success to the scammers, who erase the time code and the virus. The crew holds a memorial for Fry, but he suddenly appears. Fry says he created a duplicate of himself, which remained in the past while he accidentally fell into his cryo-tube. When Fry (plus the Fry that was originally frozen) awoke 1,000 years later, the present Fry froze himself until the current year. The Fry in 2000 spent the years before Bender's attack working at Panucci's Pizzeria, then at an aquarium caring for Leelu, an orphaned narwhal. He also spent time with his family and tended to his beloved dog Seymour Asses. Nibbler removes the tattoo from Fry to keep the scammers from further abusing it. Leela and Lars decide to marry, but during the wedding, Hermes is again decapitated. Professor Farnsworth says that Hermes' body would have died anyway; time paradox duplicates are doomed to die prematurely. Lars panics and breaks up with Leela.

The scammers trick Earth President Richard Nixon into giving Earth to them. Exiled to Neptune, the population assembles a fleet with the aid of Robot Santa, Kwanzaabot and the Hanukah Zombie. Hermes has his brain wired into the ship's battle computer, allowing him to destroy the scammers' fleet and win back his wife.

Fry arranges for Leela to meet with Lars at the cryogenic lab. Having survived the attack, Nudar ambushes them. Lars tricks Nudar into approaching the Bender duplicate on self-destruct and holds him against the duplicate, who explodes, killing them. The explosion reveals the Bender tattoo on Lars.

During Lars' funeral, the Planet Express crew learn from his video will that he was the duplicate of Fry who survived Bender's attack in 2012; the explosion changed his appearance and voice. Lars froze himself to return to the future and be with Leela. When he learned that time paradox duplicates were doomed, he canceled the wedding to spare Leela the pain of his death.

Bender removes Lars' tattoo and travels to 2000 to place it on Fry in the cryogenic tube so that the events that transpired "make any sense at all". Upon returning, Bender emerges with all the duplicates from his stealing sprees. Nibbler urges everyone to evacuate the universe before swallowing himself. The Bender duplicates explode, causing a tear in the fabric of space.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The opening scene that introduces each character while the extended theme song plays in the background is amazing.
 * 2) Great animation that still manages to capture the style of the previous four seasons. As well as making a great mix between 2D and 3D animation.
 * 3) The scammers are great antagonists, especially with their plan to trick Planet Express into taking full control and then using Bender
 * 4) The characters are still likeable as they were in the show, even Bender which, despise having been manipulated by the scammers, is still the same likeable and hilarious character as he was from the show.
 * 5) It does an amazing use of the time travel plot, making each timeline connected to each other without ending up leading to a plot hole.
 * 6) Just like in the show, there's still some funny moments, like when tba
 * 7) Fry's relationship with Leelu is adorable and sweet.
 * 8) It has some very heartwarming moments, like when Fry let Leelu go, or when tba
 * 9) It makes many references to the past episodes, like with Fry having the lucky clover he had in "The Luck of Fryrish".
 * 10) It replaces the sad ending of "Jurrassic Bark" with Fry returning to Seymore instead of having him waiting for Fry for 12 years. On the other hand, the film shows how Seymore was flash-fossilized in the same episode.
 * 11) The plot-twist that reveals that Lars was actually Fry's clone is not only clever, but also unpredicable.
 * 12) It does not only gives a message about not to pass personal information to strangers, but also gives a message about how unrequited love does happens and it can be heartbreaking, tba
 * 13) A Funny ending where Bender emerges with all the duplicates with objects stolen in different times, until creating a crack in space-time and causing their duplicates to explode.

The Only Three Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the ending is funny, it ended with a cliffhanger, thankfully the next movie continues the story of the movie.
 * 2) The characters does seems to act a little out-of-character, since they are easily deceived by the scammers, even though they know that you should not give personal information to strangers.

Reception
The movie was well-received by fans and critics alike, with many fans considering this to be the best Futurama movie. The film holds a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7,6/10 on IMDb, based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 7.40/10. It won the 2007 Annie Award for Best Home Entertainment Production. The movie received an "A" rating in a review at UGO, calling its two musical numbers "hilarious", and the overall quality on par with that of the show's original run. Dan Iverson of IGN gave the movie an 8 out of 10, stating that "it is easy to recommend Bender's Big Score to fans of the series and those new to the show alike." They also gave the DVD a 7 out of 10, praising the extras but lamenting the quality of the video transfer.

PhantomStrider ranked it as the #1 of his Top 10 Best Futurama Episodes.

Trivia

 * In television reruns, this film is divided into four parts.