Futurama: Bender's Game

Video
2008
Not Rated
1h 28m

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Adult Animation Fantasy Epic Parody Action Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi

The Planet Express crew get trapped in a fantasy world.The Planet Express crew get trapped in a fantasy world.The Planet Express crew get trapped in a fantasy world.

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7.2/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Billy West

Philip J. Fry
(voice)
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Katey Sagal

Turanga Leela
(voice)
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John DiMaggio

Bender
(voice)
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Tress MacNeille

Mom
(voice)
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Maurice LaMarche

Walt
(voice)
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Phil LaMarr

Hermes Conrad
(voice)
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Lauren Tom

Amy Wong
(voice)
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David Herman

Larry
(voice)
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Kath Soucie

Cubert Farnsworth
(voice)
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Frank Welker

Nibbler
(voice)
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E. Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax
(archive footage)
(voice)
(as Gary Gygax)

Rich Little

Rich Little's Head as Howard Cosell
(voice)

George Takei

George Takei's Head
(voice)

Paul D. Calder

The Die of Power
(voice)
(uncredited)

David X. Cohen

The Die of Power
(voice)
(uncredited)

Danik Thomas

The Die of Power
(voice)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
When Frydo's (Fry's) two alter egos are fighting with each other, he asks, "S'awright?" and the other replies, "S'awright!", a routine made famous by the Spanish ventriloquist Señor Wences, and his character Pedro, a disembodied head in a box.

Goofs
Dark matter pellets are handled casually, yet when initially introduced in the series they were particularly heavy.

Quotes
Leegola: What else can we slay? Is that a hobbit over there?
Titanius Anglesmith: No, that's a hobo and a rabbit. But they're making a hobbit.

Crazy credits
After the end credits, the film is dedicated to Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax, who died during production. After this, a clip of him from his guest appearance in the second season episode "Anthology of Intrest I" appears with Gygax saying, "Who wants to play Dungeons and Dragons for the next Quadrillion years?"

Alternate versions
This direct-to-DVD movie was the 3rd of 4 to be released after the tv series was cancelled at the end of season 5. When the series was to be revived on a different network, this movie was split into 4 parts, each part equal to the usual length of a tv episode, and shown first as season 6 episodes 9 through 12. The other 3 movies were also similarly split and formed the rest of season 6, 16 episodes in all. Finally, the new episodes made specifically for tv followed as season 7. This practice was identically used for later tv syndication and streaming services such as Hulu.

Connections
Edited into Futurama: Bender's Game: Part 1 (2009)

Soundtracks
Rocket Ship
Performed by Kathy McCarty
Album: Dead Dog's Eyeball
Original by Daniel Johnston
Released by Bar None Records

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.