John DiMaggio Movies

A cow learns to walk like a man, both literally and figuratively, in this computer-animated comedy written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, the creator of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at a farm where the critters are a bit unusual -- they can walk on two legs, talk, swim, and act like humans, though they have the good sense to avoid doing these things while humans are around. Ben has long dreamed that his son Otis (voice of Kevin James) would someday take over his duties on the farm, but Otis is a carefree and irresponsible type who would rather party with his friends and hang out with his girlfriend, Daisy (voice of Courteney Cox). Ben and his friend Miles (voice of Danny Glover), a wise and patient mule, wonder if Otis will ever make anything of himself, while Dasiy's best friend, Bessy (voice of Wanda Sykes), is convinced she can do better. However, one night Otis decides to do something about an obnoxious kid who enjoys tipping his fellow cows, and for the first time in his life he gets a taste of leadership -- and he likes it. Barnyard also features the voice talents of Andie MacDowell, Maria Bamford, and Maurice LaMarche. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Bolt, the tale of a superstar TV pup (voiced by John Travolta) who gets plopped in the middle of America with seemingly no way back to the glam and glitz of Hollywood. Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt the pooch has become a household name. But Bolt has bought into his own heroic image, now believing that he really possesses the super-canine powers of his fictional television series. When he's accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York City, he must rely on the help from his two newfound friends -- an abandoned house cat named Mittens (voiced by Susie Essman) and a television-addicted hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) -- as he embarks on a cross-country quest to get back to his owner (and co-star), Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

The Professor goes online using AOL, which has turned into a virtual reality experience. While in a chat room, Leela meets Alcazar, who claims to be a cyclops. She visits his planet and learns that they are the last two living cyclopses from the planet Cyclopia. After they spend the night together, Alcazar starts acting like a real jerk and the episode turns into a parody of Married...With Children with Alcazar as Al Bundy and Leela as Peggy Bundy . She accepts his marriage proposal while Fry and Bender find out that Alcazar is not a cyclops, but a shapeshifting alien who already proposed to four other women. It turns out he was just looking for wives to clean his castles while he made money by letting people watch. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

On Professor Farnsworth's 150th birthday, the Planet Express crew goes to Mars University to attend a party held in his honor. After the party, he reveals his latest creation: his 12-year-old clone, Cubert Farnsworth (Kath Soucie). The crew can't take the clone's obnoxious behavior and the Professor is distraught to learn that Cubert doesn't even want to be a scientist. Wanting to end his life, the Professor heads out to the Near Death Star, a place where people over the age of 160 go to die -- it turns out he had been lying about his age in order to avoid going there. The crew finds out where he is and heads out to rescue him. "A Clone of My Own" is the first Futurama episode to acknowledge the progression of time, as this episode takes place in the year 3001. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The first episode of the second season of Futurama is a take on the Hollywood blockbuster romance Titanic. During the Planet Express company vacation, the whole crew goes on a luxury space cruise. Leela pretends that Fry is her boyfriend in order to thwart the advances of the ship's captain, Zapp Brannigan. Amy also pretends that Fry is her boyfriend, so that her parents will stop trying to find her a husband. Meanwhile, Bender romances the rich old robot lady Countess De La Roca. This episode marked the first appearance of Hermes' wife, LaBarbara (voice of Dawnn Lewis), as well as Amy's parents, Leo (voice of Billy West) and Inez Wong (voice of Lauren Tom). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

In the season finale episode, "Anthology of Interest I," Professor Farnsworth unveils his "What-if" machine and Bender, Leela, and Fry each get a chance to ask it a question. Bender asks what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, so he becomes a giant and flies to Earth to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." He befriends a boy (Fry) and accidentally destroys the city in a take on The Iron Giant. The Professor then makes Dr. Zoidberg a giant so they can fight each other. Leela asks what it would be like if she were more impulsive, so she ends up killing the Professor in order to get his fortune. As people find out about the murder, she is forced to kill them one by one until she has killed almost everyone. Fry asks what it would be like if he were never cryogenically frozen in 1999. He ends up meeting the Action Rangers -- made up of scientist Stephen Hawking, Vice President Al Gore, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols, and Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Matt Groening's cult hit series Futurama takes its killer wit to DVD with this full length movie consisting of a brand new story with all new animation and the complete, original voice cast. As the crew of Planet Express prepares for Xmas 3007, a race of evil, nudist, internet scammers launches an attack on Earth, discovering the secret of time travel tattooed on Fry's butt. Using their sinister hacking skills to control Bender, the aliens seize control of the robot and send him back in time to loot ancient Earth of its treasures. The crew encounter true love, a hostile takeover, and Al Gore before their race against time to save the world as they know it is over. Futurama: Bender's Big Score also features guest voice-appearances by actors and comedians like Sarah Silverman, Mark Hamill, and Coolio. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

During a "blernsball" game, Bender gets upset about the mistreatment of robots, while Fry struggles to understand the rules of blernsball. The Planet Express crew gets a delivery request to Chapek 9, a planet ran by robots where humans are routinely killed. Bender tries to get out of it by claiming it's the robot holiday of Robannukah. He makes the delivery anyway, but he gets busted for working for humans. In order to save him, Fry and Leela dress up like robots and find Bender in a robot adult bookstore. The planet's rulers capture Fry and Leela, while Bender is ordered to kill them. The rulers eventually agree that humans are harmless, and killing them is only a way to distract the robot population from their real problems. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Bender becomes addicted to jolts of electricity at a "jacking-on" party. He goes on a jolt spree and almost kills the rest of the crew. A robot priest offers him the Good Book 3.0 and he kicks his addiction by finding religion. Fry and Leela want the old Bender back, so they take him out for a night of corruption and he ends up paying for his sins in robot hell. In the tradition of the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," Fry and Leela try to win back his soul by battling the robot devil Beelzebot (voice of Dan Castellaneta) in a fiddle contest. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

On Nibbler's birthday, Bender gets jealous because nobody is paying attention to him. Even when he tries to get noticed for baking a cake, Nibbler eats the whole thing. Angry, Bender flushes him down the toilet and Leela is heartbroken. Because the uncaring Bender feels no remorse, the Professor installs an empathy chip in him so he can understand how bad Leela is feeling about the loss of her pet. He is overcome with emotion and flushes himself down the toilet to try and save Nibbler. Fry and Leela try to find him, but they end up finding a race of underground sewer mutants. They all save Nibbler and have to fight the sewer monster "El Chupanibre." ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

While visiting Past-O-Rama, Fry is mistaken for an employee and has to park an antique 20th century car. He crashes it and ends up meeting Flexo, a joking robot that looks just like Bender only he has a goatee. Bender and Flexo become friends and go to the robot strip club, but Fry thinks that he's evil. He joins the Planet Express crew on a sensitive mission to deliver an important atom to the Miss Universe Pageant. Fry stays up all night to watch over Flexo, but he ends up falling asleep during his own shift. When they get to the pageant, the atom has been stolen and Flexo is gone. Everyone looks for him, leading to a battle between the two robots. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The Planet Express crew makes a delivery to the Professor's office at Mars University. Realizing that he's just a high school dropout, Fry decides to enroll in school and become a college dropout. He ends up sharing a room with the Professor's super-intelligent experimental monkey, Guenter. Guenter competes with Fry in social activities and academic performance while struggling with whether to rejoin his species in the wild. Meanwhile, Bender hangs out with the robot fraternity of his college days (when he majored in Bending and minored in Robo-American Studies). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

When Hermes threatens to stop paying him if he doesn't get to work, Bender becomes the ship's cook. The crew has to make a delivery on Trisol 3 in the Galaxy of Terror. When Fry has to walk through the heat of the three suns in order to deliver a package, he gets thirsty and drinks a strange blue liquid. The liquid turns out to be the leader of a race of liquid aliens who make Fry their new leader and force him to recite an oath. That evening, the leader in Fry's stomach commands that they kill Fry in order to get him out. Leela comes up with a plan to beat him up until he cries, thereby draining out the liquid alien leader. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide