SnoopyStyle
Bender plays Dungeons & Dragons with the kids to prove that he has an imagination but it drives him into the nut house. Leela gets challenged and enters Planet Express in a demolition derby. The Professor puts an electric collar on her for damaging the ship. She has to convince Dr. Zoidberg that she is cured of her anger issues before he takes it off. Mom is driving up the price of dark matter but there is no actual shortage. Professor reveals he's the one who worked on dark matter for Mom. The crew needs to find a missing crystal which would neutralize all the dark matter. Then Bender's overactive imagination sends everybody into a D&D alternate reality.Nibbler's story recap is great and I like the crew's battle with Mom for the most part. Although I still don't like the scheme to neutralize black matter. I also don't like changing reality midway through the movie. I would rather have the whole movie be in an alternate reality or not do that at all. There are other minor quibbles but the cast of characters is still great. It's fun no matter how weird things get.
The Couchpotatoes
I wonder if it is a good idea to make movies about Futurama. The 20 minutes episodes from the cartoon series are much better then a long movie. I had trouble staying awake for the entire movie. I laughed at a couple fecal jokes but for the rest it is just an average cartoon. Apart from a couple references to well known movies there was not much creativity in Bender's Game. I was honestly expecting more then this. I'm sure the majority of the fans of the normal cartoon will feel the same as me. I will watch the next movie though, just to see if they made any improvement but I fear the worst. Anyways, it's not the worst I ever saw but not the best either.
Joshua Warren
Fry: So it's all come down to this... a dungeon... and dragons! Zoidberg: I didn't see it coming.Unlike the previous film this really captured the weirdness, and humour that made me like the series in the first place. And for all who's a Lord of the Rings fan,this is a must see parody.The move starts with Bender feeling left out when he sees Cubert and Dwight playing Dungeons & Dragons and can't play because robots are not installed with imaginations. Yet after trying hard he starts to struggle with seeing the difference between the game and the real-world. He calls himself "Titanius Anglesmith" and gradually believes himself to be a real knight in the magical world of "Cornwood". As a result he's put in a mental hospital. Meanwhile Leela develops an anger problem and is forced to wear a shock-collar, until she learns to calm down. Meanwhile they discover a scam by Mom involving the high prices of dark matter. Farnsworth then reveals that while he was still working for Mom many years ago, dark matter was a completely useless substance. But while experimenting with it he inadvertently created two crystals: an energy crystal that turned dark matter into fuel, which Mom took for herself, and an opposite "anti-backwards matter" crystal, which Farnsworth kept hidden from her. Farnsworth says that should the two crystals meet, they would render dark matter completely useless once more. Frankly there are so many development in this film and I can't make a longer plot review without spoiling the whole story, I'll just say that later in the film the team is transported to another dimension where Benders imagination is real. There they are met by an armored Bender in his "Titanius" persona, who names his friends "Frydo" and "Leegola." Now I'll just finish by saying that this film is in my opinion, one of the funniest things to ever have come out from a TV series, but the two very different story lines were a little confusing, but I'll still give it a 9/10.
kirk-246
I'm a huge fan of the television series and the 2 movies that followed.'Benders Game' is the best movie and episode to date.It's full of laughs,crude and sexual humor,and wacky cartoon violence.In fact,this sequel is much more violent than the first 2 movies and all of the episodes.So make sure not to let little kids see it.Save it for teens.In this episode,Bender the robot discovers that he has no imagination until he becomes obsessed with a board game that goes by the name of Dungeons & Dragons.It's an actual game to.But soon,Bender loses control of reality and his imagination causes the Planet Express crew to fall into a fantasy world where Bender is king and where everybody eats fried dwarfs.Sounds too weird for you? Well,it gets a little weirder as it continues.'Futurama: Bender's game' is the best movie of the series and is a must-see for Futurama fans.