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.

stevcoll This movie series started off just "OK" with "Bender's Big Score", then I felt a little hope seeing "Beast With a Billion Backs"..Sadly however, "Bender's Game" and "Into The Wild Green Yonder" are both in-cohesive, boring, and generally consist of the kind of lazy writing you wouldn't expect from a show like Futurama.One of the biggest problems is certainly trying to produce a full-length movie out of a 20-minute cartoon. It became very clear to me that the writers lost interest and/or didn't have enough quality content to make these films, and the movies suffered big time.As some other people mentioned, there was way too much crude and sexual humor that just didn't fit the series. The references to Lord of the Rings and Star Wars weren't at all funny or entertaining.. Just more lazy writing.Ultimately, this film was barely worth the time it took to watch it. I was actually falling asleep during this movie and "Into The Wild Green Yonder". Drawn out drivel..

Enchorde Recap: Fuel prices keep going up, and it's an outrage! Of course it's a scheme by Mom and her evil corporation, and as always, Farnsworth has both the history to tell and a key to solve it. He is the one who made dark matter to the potent fuel it is, and he has also the key, a crystal, to undo it. If he only remembered where he put it. At the same time Cubert and his friends are playing Dungeons and Dragons. And Bender suffers enormously from the fact that he lacks imagination. He tries so hard that he goes insane, and together with the die they use playing holds magnificent power.Comments: If you are a fan of the series I think you, like me, will love it. Bender's Game is full of inside jokes, the typical humor of the series and actually a little development of some of the episodes in the series. If you, like me, seen (and own) every released episode, you don't want to miss this.But, I actually suspect that if you're not a true believer (yet – you'll soon be converted) you might like it too. Without the inside jokes, and without knowing of the previous episodes, it is still a really funny movie. It is really good parody of its own, full of references too both sci-fi and fantasy movies (and others as well) and, of course, the game Dungeons and Dragons. Combined with the humor of Groening and his marvelous team it is a really funny movie.However, to experience it like the gem it is, I think you need to be a fan. And even if it is really good then, it isn't the masterpiece I know that Groening and friends are capable of. But sit back and enjoy, it is a great ride.8/10

bob the moo Despite raising costs of dark matter, Leela gets involved in a spaceship demolition derby, prompting the Professor to take action to help control her anger issues. Investigation into the reasons behind the rising costs of fuel (and the rising profits of Mom) leads to a terrible discovery far from Earth. Meanwhile, Bender's initial inability to take part in the kids' game of Dungeons & Dragons (due to his lack of programmed imagination), takes off big time – seeing him falling into a fantasy world of knights and witchcraft in his head and a mental institution in real life.The previous two Futurama movies were not that great, with overly busy plotting getting in the way of what the show was actually meant to be – funny and smart. Reading my plot summary here (and seeing the film synopsis in full) might suggest that Bender's Game is more of the same as we have different things going on with the characters all flowing together into a rather mad story. Much to my delight though this is not the case – and it is not because the plot isn't a bit messy, because it is. No, what makes it work here is that it is consistently funny and silly in a way that actually had me laughing. We do still have the plot working hard to make things move forward at times but even when this is happening, the film is still funny. It does this in the way the show always used to, by having lots of little side gags and lots of smart references that are imaginative and funny. The story is still very busy but, because of the amount of laughs in it, I never felt bogged down in the story or that I was getting story at the expense of laughter.It is hard to describe the differences between this and the other films in terms beyond this, but to me Bender's Game is the first film that felt like it was part of the series. It is not perfect though. The fantasy game section of the film is a little too trippy and long for its own good because it just suddenly "happens" in a way that feels like a different film and it is a while before the connection to the main plot is clear. Again though, what saves it is that you're laughing regularly during this. Even with the laughing though, 90 minutes still seems like a bit of an ask and it does feel longer than it is, reminding the viewer that Futurama always was about 20 minutes long and making the same thing work in a product about five times longer is not easy and doesn't totally work.Despite these minor qualms, Bender's Game is the Futurama film I have been waiting for and it is the first one of the three that has captured what I loved about the actual series. It is funny in the way the series used to be funny and, although the plotting is not its strongest point, the laughs cover up a surprising amount of the problems.