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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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(*) Veronica Guerin ****½
USA/Ireland/UK: Joel Schumacher, 2003
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(*) The Stendhal Syndrome ****½
Original title: La Sindrome di Stendhal
Italy: Dario Argento, 1996
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2001: A Space Odyssey ****½
UK/USA: Stanley Kubrick, 1968
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(*) The Great Mouse Detective ***½
USA: John Musker, Ron Clements, Dave Michener, Burny Mattinson, 1986
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(*) Les Triplettes de Belleville ****½
France/Belgium/Canada/UK: Sylvain Chomet, 2003
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Welcome to the movie checklist!
This section is an archive listing every movie I've seen from January 1 2005 onwards. Films I have already seen are included and will be marked with a (*), but probably won't be reviewed except under special circumstances. I will be including a rating for each film (in stars, out of 5), and hope to be able to include a brief 1-2 paragraph review of each film, although due to time constraints that won't always be possible.
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