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Futurama: Bender's Game | 
| Director: Dwayne Carey-hill
Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress Macneille, Maurice Lamarche
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
Format: Ac-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: FOXD2254187D
UPC: 024543541875
EAN: 0024543541875
ASIN: B001DZOC78
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: November 4, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 11/04/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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At once a merciless skewering of all things fanboy and an extremely satisfying addition to the emFuturama/em franchise, emBender's Game/em is among the best of the animated series' feature length adventures. The game in question is Dungeons and Dragons, and Bender wants in--only robots aren't programmed with the necessary imagination. Naturally, Bender's plans to develop one go completely awry and land him in an android asylum. The role-playing plotline later re-emerges--in typically convoluted emFuturama/em fashion--via a subplot involving Professor Farnsworth's conversion of dark matter into spaceship fuel, which created a key to a very DD-influenced universe where our hapless heroes eventually find themselves. The alternate world storyline allows for much lampooning of fantasy tropes, with emLord of the Rings/em receiving the lion's share of the tweaks. Seeing as how the writers have already devoted much of the movie's running time to parodying emStar Wars/em and emStar Trek/em (and their Lego offshoots), one might think that emBender's Game/em might suffer from pop-culture overload, but surprisingly, it all feels fresh and frequently funny, and the writers are wise to ground the story in their eccentric characters rather than pinballing them through an endless string of gags. The result is probably the strongest of the direct-to-DVD emFuturama/em releases to date, and one that newcomers to the show's cracked universe can appreciate as much as longtime fans.As with previous emFuturama/em DVD releases, the extras come fast and furious on emBender's Game/em: commentary by members of the cast and production team (including Matt Groening) is both informative and funny, while interviews with the writers and producers discuss, among other topics, the influence of Dungeons and Dragons on the series and the 3D models used in the feature. Aspiring animators might appreciate "How To Draw emFuturama/em in 83 Easy Steps and the storyboard animatic for the first part of the story, while the "Genetics Lab" feature allows for some amusing Dr. Moreau-style cross-breeding of the characters. Recording session bloopers and a deleted scene offer their own laughs, but the most enjoyable extra must be the preview for the next emFuturama/em feature, emInto the Wild Green Yonder/em, which suggests a shocking development for one of the show's regulars. em -- Paul Gaita/em br / pspan class="h1"strongBeyond emFuturama: Bender's Game/em/strong/span table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" width="100%" tbody tr align="center" class="tiny" valign="top" td width="33%"img border="0" height="115" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vb2ZPrYAL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="115" /br /emThe Simpsonsbr //em/td td width="33%" img border="0" height="115" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rxDScpIvL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="115" /br / emFamily Guy/embr //td td width="33%" img border="0" height="115" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D6G0E6GEL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="115" /br /emKing of the Hill/embr //td /tr /tbody /table br /br /br / span class="h1"strongStills from emFuturama: Bender's Game/em (Click for larger image)/strong/span table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" width="100%" p/p p/p tbody tr align="center" valign="top" tdimg align="left" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/fox/futurama/FBG1_S.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0;" / br //td p/p tdimg align="left" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/fox/futurama/FBG2_S.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0;" / br //td tdimg align="left" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/fox/futurama/FBG3_S.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0;" / br //td p/p /tr tr align="center" valign="top" tdimg align="left" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/fox/futurama/FBG4_S.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0;" /br //td p/p tdimg align="left" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/fox/futurama/FBG5_S.jpg" style="float: left; border: 0;" /br //td td align="left"img height="170" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/fox/futurama/FBG6_S.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="299" //td br / p/p /tr /tbody /table /p
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
Sweet Thompson's Gazelle of Rivendell! December 3, 2008
K. Rust (Manchester, MO United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Of the three Futurama "movies" currently available, this one is by far the superior product. Biting sarcasm (thanks, Bender), an actual plot line, and a pop-culture skewering satire of "Lord of the Rings" make this Futurama at its best. Hermes as a hermaphroditic centaur? Why not? Keep 'em coming lads, and remember that Dungeons and Dragons is Bad for You!
Not the best of the three, but a must have December 1, 2008
M. Sikora (Aviano)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a huge Futurama fan so this was a must have. I only watched this one once so far and it wasn't my favorite of the three. There was no hint at a possible end to Fry's love for Leela. The whole plot was very far fetched. There were some good parts and it made funny references to another hit movie, but I would say that this is by far not the funniest of three movies. I also didn't notice many scientific or mathmatical references for us nerds.
 Not what I was hoping for November 29, 2008
mofolotopo
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a Futurama fan since Day 1, and I eagerly anticipate the release of any new material. This one, though, doesn't live up to the franchise. The plot is disjointed and makes no sense. There's a noble tradition of that in Futurama, though, so that's not really a strong criticism of the movie. The real problem is that it's just not funny. It's not even particularly interesting. If you condensed the best parts of this movie into a single 22 minute episode, it would still be one of the worst Futurama episodes made. Any real fan is going to buy it anyway, no doubt, but I really don't think they'll be watching it as often as they watch the others.
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