Audience Rating: To Be Announced
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036037716
Format: PAL
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: November 03, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
The third of a series of four planned Futurama spin-off TV movies, Bender’s Game follows Bender’s Big Score and Beast With A Billion Backs, and comfortably sits alongside them. It’s good, and it’s sometimes very funny, but is unlikely still to be regarded as vintage Futurama.

The plot of Bender’s Game takes the regulars on a mission that soon sees them in a strange land, which bears a striking resemblance to something out of Dungeons and Dragons or Lord of the Rings. This isn’t, as you’d expect, the safest place to be, and thus the scene is set for lots of genre gags that are, at their finest, hard to resist.

On the downside, the pacing is a little off this time round, and it takes Bender’s Game some time to hit its stride. The quest part of the movie doesn’t kick into until well over half the running time is up, and while there’s real ambition in the narrative, it does demand some patience.

But still, even if this isn’t top notch Futurama, it still packs in plenty of belly laughs, and squeezes more entertainment into 84 minutes than many movies get close to in two hours. You still yearn for the tightness of the TV show format, but the quality of the writing just about drags Bender’s Game through, leaving us thirsting for the fourth, and potentially final, movie. --Jon Foster




Rating: - Don't listen to the bad reviews - this is the BEST Futurama film!!
After reading the mixed reviews on here, I wasn't expecting all that much from this latest Futurama movie (why is it that we're always more liable to believe the bad reviews than the good?!). I enjoyed Bender's Big Score but was mildly disappointed by The Beast with a Billion Backs...so was a little concerned that this would be another disappointment. How wrong I was! People can moan all they like, but the bottom line is that this is definitely the most entertaining and FUNNIEST Futurama film yet. ... Read More

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Rating: - muddled ideas and a poor script- is it time to call it a day on Planet Express?
Live action movie directors know that you cant throw everything into a script and expect it to work, the characters need to react to cause and effect and it would be prohibitively expensive. In animation however you can do anything. Futurama often thrived due to inventive plots littered with pop culture references that stayed true to the motivations and traits of the cast. The movies so far have not been great and the plot of Benders Game is guilty of trying to involve everything that the writers ... Read More

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Rating: - Better than last time, but still a bit hit and miss
I loved Bender's Big Score, but wasn't nearly as hot on Beast with a Billion Backs. Bender's Game is at least a step back in the right direction, but it also has a lot of the same problems as the previous movie, chiefly a lot of gags that just seem to misfire horribly(The entire extended Lord of the Rings/Dungeons and Dragons parody sequence around which the marketing for the movie is based felt laboured and unnecessary for one, despite a couple of nice scenes), and the movie again has no central ... Read More

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Rating: - I liked it.
I can't really understand all the negative reviews here: you can almost hear the comic book guy from the Simpsons declaring it "worst. episode. ever".

The first Futurama movie didn't quite work for me. Entertaining, but it seemed like the writers were struggling to fill the feature length, and chose to fill it with so-so material which would have been cut on an ordinary show (eg. the early "Fox executives themselves fired" joke dragged on far too long).

The second was much better, ... Read More

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Rating: - Actually, getting better
Curious mix of reviews here, but I found that this is actually probably the best of the feature length Futuramas so far, and especially welcome after the rather uninteresting second installment, Beast with a Billion Backs. Yes, the plot does meander a bit, but the jokes come rapidly and most hit home.

I suspect enjoyment of this may depend on just how nerdy you were as a teenager...

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