Futurama: Bender's Game (2008)

Directed by

Dwayne Carey-Hill

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, science fiction, sitcom, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 608 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Planet Express crew gets involved in a fantasy role-playing game that starts to affect reality. Bender becomes obsessed with the game and his friends have to deal with the consequences.

sillyfast-pacedabsurdplayfulwhimsicalparodiclightheartedcartoonish

What happens

Futurama: Bender's Game is a 2008 American direct-to-video adult animated science fantasy comedy film and the third of the four Futurama films that make up the show's fifth season. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008. According to the Beast with a Billion Backs DVD commentary, the film, which spoofs Dungeons & Dragons, was in production when Dungeons & Dragons creator, Gary Gygax, died. The film contains a post-credits tribute to Gygax in the form of a title card and a clip of him from the episode "Anthology of Interest I". Elements of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and George Lucas' Star Wars are also parodied. The title of the film is a pun on the book Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, though the Futurama film has "very little to do with the subject material" of the book. Conversely, the 1985 book also used "Bender" as a mocking pun for "Ender", but Matt Groening stated this is not the original inspiration for Bender's name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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