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Futurama - Bender's Game (2008) Certificate 12

Futurama - Bender's Game
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Rated 3.5 stars
Average rating
(69%)
 
Starring: Billy West | John Di Maggio | Katey Sagal | Lauren Tom | Phil LaMarr | Maurice LaMarche | Tress MacNeille | David Herman | Frank Welker
Director: Dwayne Carey-Hill
Studio: 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 84 mins
Genres: Animated | Comedy
Languages: English
Released: November 03, 2008

With fuel prices skyrocketing, the Planet Express crew sets off on a dangerous mission: to infiltrate the world's only dark-matter mine, source of all spaceship fuel. But deep beneath the surface lies a far stranger place...a medieval land of dragons and sorcery and intoxicated knights who look suspiciously like Bender. So park your hover-car and saddle up your unicorn for Futurama's grandest adventure yet: Bender's Game!

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35 out of 37 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
superb............................

williamsgwynfa from , 6th October, 2008

this dvd is superb. It is a movie version of the Futurama series. Cubert, Dwight and some of their little friends are playing Dungeons & Dragons in the Planet Express conference room. Bender wants to join in and play with the kids, but robots don't come with imaginations installed. Bender because of this, takes the whole imagination game a little too far, and develops a slight problem - being able to tell fantasy from reality. He goes slightly crazy and finds himself in a straitjacket, locked away in a padded cell at the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. Meanwhile, the price of dark matter (the fuel for all the spaceships), has gone through the roof. Mom the owner of Mom Corp (and the Professors ex) controls the supply of dark matter on Earth, along with her sons: Walt, Larry and Ignar. Mom actually owns the dark matter mine. Professor Farnsworth years ago, accidentally created an 'opposite' crystal made of 'pure anti-backwards' energy. Which he kept hidden from Mom - when he was working for her. The Professor discovers that if the dark matter and the energy crystals ever interact, all the dark matter would be rendered utterly useless, and strange things will happen. This is what happens, and all the Planet Express team are propelled into an alternate reality called Cornwood. This fantasy epic is a cross between Dungeons & Dragons and Lord of The Rings. Bender becomes Titanius Anglesmith, a knight in shining armour. Leela becomes a centaur, named Leegola. Hermes also becomes a centaur called Hermaphrodite. Professor Farnsworth is the Great Wizard Greyfarn and Amy is Gynecaladriel, queen of the 'waternymphos' who holds the power of being a bombshell. The team must embark on a journey to the Geysers of Gygax to destroy the dice of power (which is the opposite crystal) and defeat the evil Momon. Fry becomes 'Frydo' who becomes obsessed with the 'dodecadelicious' and becomes a bit Gollum-like. This causes mayhem !!!! Ultimately, though, the final battle comes down to ... dungeons and dragons. Will the Planet Express team win ?.... watch it to find out.

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14 out of 16 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1.0 stars
Could be a lot better!

A Customer from Rotherham, 2nd November, 2008

This outing for Futurama was a complete disappointment for me. I found it difficult to watch, turning the DVD player off several times just to get through it. The storyline felt rather disjointed The first half of ths adventure was not too bad and was enjoyable but the second half was spoofed up too much and just became silly. The Beast with a Billian Backs is still the best feature length Futurama to date.

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10 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1.0 stars
HATE

G4RY from , 14th February, 2009

Didn't like the film !! What else can i say .

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6 out of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2.0 stars
Lame - again

A Customer from Edinburgh, 9th November, 2008

Yet another disappointing entry into the Futurama movie-esque dvd series. The first movie had a silly plot but was at least mostly hilarious. The last just didn't have the jokes to sustain the hour odd running time and this one is no different - although I found it a bit funnier. Futurama fans should still get it but let's hope number four will get it right.

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Rated 5.0 stars
future fun

Gothicstitcher from , 19th May, 2010

Love Futurama - Bender and the rest kept me entertained all the way through - I am of course a fan of it so this might explain my obvious enjoyment and I would recommend to young and old alike

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Rated 3.0 stars
good, but not up to scratch

Lorrinb from , 19th April, 2010

It's pretty certain that if you like futurama, you'll like this... and damn do i like futurama! But, having said that - this just isn't as good as their best episodes, not is it actually as good as the first 2 movies (Bender's Big Game, being, in my opinion, waaaay ahead in terms of plot / jokes / idea / actually being a film not just a series of episodes). But hey, it's Futurama isn't it? you can't go far wrong, and i was still chuckling my ass off for most of it...

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Rated 3.0 stars
Metal

ajmac from , 8th January, 2010

An enjoyable episode in the futurama universe, I may have enjoyed it more if I were a fan of dungeons and dragons.

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Rated 3.0 stars
Well, it's just Futurama really.

blindbobcat from , 17th October, 2009

I've always been open to the concept of Futurama, but never really got into it. I guess I just see a watered down Simpsons, set in the future. Hmm. Anyway, with a movie based on a TV show, I expect something more, even with an animated series. This I think was achieved by The Simpsons Movie and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. This is just three episodes of Futurama glued together. Nothing special, just Futurama. That doesn't mean it isn't good. Still funny in places, very funny in others. But it's nothing new. Good. But could have been much better.

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