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List Price: $29.99
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche
Directed By: Dwayne Carey-Hill
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543541875
Format: AC-3
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-11-04
Running Time: 88
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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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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Summary: Very Random
Comment: This release is okay. It has all the funny you would expect from Futurama but the way it is put together is not very good. Its like you will get a good funny story arc going and then it would end very abruptly and a whole new story arc would begin and end again. This happens for the entir length of the movie. The funny in all the story arcs is there but they never really finish the thought or end the punch line in all the random story arcs. This is very much like several episodes put together to make one move and it fails miserably at continuity with the regular series in many instances. Worth a buy if you can find it at half the price of its retail list price of $20-25. Full price, hell no, especially when you can get the one of the four volumes for the price of this one very random DVD. And one volume has an entire season of different episodes.
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Summary: 3rd Time's the Charm
Comment: Well, the first 2 movies were pretty bad. Movie 1 decided to throw all cannon out the window and make previous episode connections meaningless. Movie 2 was a very long drawn out episode that left me confused and empty on the laughter.
However, this 3rd movie felt more like the show. The caracters were familiar in their personalities again and answered a few questions I had from the series. I don't play D & D, but I got the cultural references just fine. Let's just hope that the 4th movie only improves what the 3rd one has tried to fix.
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Summary: Not up to their usual 5-Star rating
Comment: I own all the episodes and movies. I will not do a long review since most people I feel like pithy ones. As a fan of Futurama I must say this is the least memorable of all the things they have done in my opinion. The movies are getting less entertaining as they come out. I hope this trend reverses on the next release.
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Summary: Needs more Dark Energy!
Comment: As a long-term Futurama fan, who rejoiced when the films started to appear, and who has enjoyed the previous two while thinking they hadn't yet got back to the inventive genius of the series, it pains me to say it, but this is nowhere near as entertaining. The film's premise of a Lord of the Rings + Dungeons and Dragons type adventure promises much, and starts from a bizarre enough origin - the Dark Matter fuel market is in crisis. But in the series, this would have developed by means of weird but compelling logic. Here, though there is a series of sharp transitions and enough pointed allusions, the effect is one of randomness; it's as if the authors have thrown in every idea they could think of, without asking how it all holds together.
And, worst of all to say, every previous Futurama has provided plenty of laughs; this one didn't provoke so much as a single giggle.
I could admire all the invention and the skill; but that's a long way from being engaged and entertained.
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Summary: What Happened!?
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I am A huge Futurama fan. Have every episode and love how smart and well timed the comedy can be. As much as I want to love this installment, I can't. Benders big Game is A Big let down. The comedy is so low-brow and the story and dialog is poorly written in comparison to everything that has been done up till now.
-"Benders big score" felt like Futurama well seasoned.
-"The Beast with a billion Backs" felt like a really long episode.
-"Benders game", has too many holes, not enough why?, The jokes all lean toward potty humor (that's not just because one of the castles is design after a toilet), and some jokes are dragged out till you wanna say, "and we are still talking about this, because.....?"
It feels like the writers have taken lessons from family guy and later bad episodes of the Simpsons. The comedy isn't smart, too much sensless humor, an advertisment for a knife commercial that feels like it lasts for 5 minutes (I laughed in the first 30 seconds then it became annoying), they had rosie the robot from the Jetsons in the robot insane asylum), an apearence form the tele-tubies in a fantasy scene, a side story (in support of a larger concept, leelas rage) shock collar gag on leela that ends up going no where, and on top of that and then some we have a very long build up of wasted story time until we finally get to the meat, in this case, benders fake fantasy world, which has limitless possibility, and wasn't taken advantage of the way many fans would hope.
on a side note: if the time is taken to watch the commentary, (bluray lets your see them talk) I was in aw that they basically don't pay attention to the story or whats happening on the screen, and spend the time making jokes to entertain themselves, unless there is too much gross on the screen then they all cringe.... I said it before, "what happened!?"
I can't give this movie five stars just because I wanted to love it, and one or two decent laughs doesn't mean five stars either.
-For Futurama fans and non- fans alike the last thought would be, Rent this before you buy it!
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