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Futurama Movie III FAQ
What’s it called?
“Bender’s Game.”
Who’s responsible?
Teleplays for parts one and two are credited to Eric Horsted. Teleplay for part three is credited to Michael Rowe & Eric Kaplan. Teleplay for part four is credited to series creator David X. Cohen & Writers Guild of American president Patric M. Verrone.
What says Fox Home Entertainment?
“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, they discover a far stranger place...a medieval land of dragons and sorcery and intoxicated knights who look suspiciously like Bender.
“Joining the cast are guest stars George Takei, the iconic Captain Sulu from the original ‘Star Trek’ series, and comic impressionist Rich Little.
The third installment of four all-new feature-length adventures, the Futurama: Bender's Game DVD and Blu-ray are packed with special features. Hosted by David X. Cohen, ‘Dungeons & Dragons & Futurama’ chronicles the influence of the classic role-playing fantasy game on the franchise. Other special features include outtakes, cast commentary, an anti-piracy message from Bender, an interactive Futurama Genetics Laboratory, a sneak peek at the next ‘Futurama’ epic, and much more!”
Does Takei play himself again?
He does. (In a ridiculously brief vocal appearance.)
Does Little play Nixon?
Nixon’s not in the movie, and Billy West always plays Nixon on “Futurama.” Little plays himself impersonating Howard Cosell.
Why does Leela sport hooves?
Halfway through the movie, the dark matter in Bender’s belly transforms everything into a “Rings”-ish fantasy version of everything. (The second half of the movie might borrow liberally from, among many other things, the Stephen King-Peter Straub novel “The Talisman.”) Leela becomes the arrow-happy Leegola. Fry becomes the Gollum-like Frydo.
The big news?
“Bender’s Game” is hilarious, and a mammoth improvement over “The Beast With A Billion Backs.” Not everything works, but you won’t find a lot of big-screen comedies that’ll make me laugh as hard or as often as this third “Futurama” movie.
What else is Fox not telling us?
Farnsworth pulls a Clockwork Orange on the violent Leela. Bender is saddened to learn he has no imagination.
Which classic characters recur?
Many, most prominently Mom, Nibbler, Leela’s sewer-mutant parents, and anchorman Morbo The Annihilator.
What’s great?
“The unmistakable stench of dwarf urine!” “Shame on you! Count me in!” “You couldn’t afford the LX package?” “My lone source of joy in the cold December of my days!” “Also, smell this milk.” “When will young people learn ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ won’t make you cool?” “Who needs girls?!” “Now, ‘Sex And The City’? That’s funny!” “Three, I think!” “Can I guess ‘Mom’ too?” “The wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the chickens!” “Hey, what are you doing down there?” “I’m not The Tunneling Horror! I hate that guy!” “I refuse to hurt another living thing!” The tale of Reginald Hopelessness. The name of the institute for criminally insane robots. The Morks! Farnsworth’s redundant exposition. The Bush of Many Uses. The fate of Treedledum. Visible coin-slots for Leela and Amy!
What’s not so great?
Visible coin-slots for Fry and Nibbler!
How does it end, spoiler-boy?
“Faster! Faster! Slower!” cries Farnsworth.
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First? I officially have no life.
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Then again, I think American Dad's hilarious. So what would I know...
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to the cover paintings for Edgar Rice Burroughs novel "The Moon Maid" seen here: http://tinyurl.com/cxjlj4 and in the more famous version by Frazetta here: http://tinyurl.com/dezozk
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The story makes no sense, in the middle, just when it gets really interesting, they suddenly start a whole different story and the jokes in that one are the typical, unfunny geek humor. ("Look, it's _________") This is more Family Guy than Futurama. I know, you all love this one because it makes LOTR and Dungeons & Dragons references, but it's the weakest of the three.
But the other three movies are great. Even if they are all flawed. -
"They rush an ending, make a joke and that's it. Don't expect a real ending to a story that had lots of potential, but suddenly falls into a million pieces."
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I have been really disappointed with all of the Futurama movies. I loved the original series but these seem like they have hired a bunch of 2nd rate writers. Is this the last one, does anyone know?
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I fell asleep watching this one and sent it back to Netflix without ever finishing it but I always assumed the title was a nod to Ender's Game. From the review I read the fantasy world is created by Bender imagination which is sorta simular to what happened in Ender's Game so it might be a refrence. Then again, maybe not.
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is the best the second part is the worst of the futurama movies. Once they're in the fantasy world, it gets truly terrible. But it starts out as old school futurama goodness. And yeah, sad as it is, American Dad is the funniest cartoon sitcom on air right now. (Till Venture bros comes back, or Futurama gets his shit together)
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Not three.
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Yeah no joke hehe. This is the second time a Futurama has made me cry. The last time was the seven-leaf clover episode about Fry's brother. Yeah it's like i'm laughing for most of the episode, then they hit me with a curve ball, right in my gut and I tear up. They have the best writers. The Simpsons ran out of ideas years ago. Family Guy can be funny, but most of the writing consist of characters saying something, then showing it in a flashback or something, just repeat the process. Southpark has never been the same since they changed Cartman. Yeah, Futurama is my favorite show on TV.
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A Global Virus from Mexico could wipe out the Planet and I'm worried about missing a TV show about a Baby Mammoth. Oh the Irony!
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I was really disappointed with the first, mildly pleased by the second, thought this was awesome, and was only mildly pleased by the fourth. Bender's Game felt like it was up there with some of the best of the crazy Futurama episodes, and actually had good pacing. The other ones have felt mostly like they had to rush their plots. I think the biggest irk for me though was the fact that Leela and Fry weren't together for any of these flicks until the very end of the last one. We'd already gone through this once Matt Groening, you shouldn't have been lazy.
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The 1-st had the best story and ending. Beast was the worst. The Story was way over the top and delivered only a few good laughs. But boy do I hope that we see more from Futurama. Even Beast was more funny than stuff like Cars, Bolt, The Simpsons Movie, Robots or Shark Tale.
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1.) Bender's Big Score
2.) Into The Wild Green Yonder
3.) Beast With A Billion Backs
4.) Bender's Game
'Score' was 100% pure Futurama, with a crazy ass story that took a SciFi cliche (Here: Time Travel) to its most absurd levels and a story that had heart, without being corny. And it was the one of the movies that didn't feel in any moment like watching four episodes cut together. 'Yonder' also had a great story, some wonderful character moments, but suffered a little bit more from that 4-episodes-arc. (Especially the subplot with the Robot Mafia) 'Beast' was maybe the one that made me laugh the most (especially in its first 30 minutes or so) and when the universe was taken over by the tentacles, some surprisingly dark Body Snatcher paranoia came up. Unfortunately the Robot subplot felt useless and the last 20 minutes "in heaven" destroyed much of the goods that came before. And 'Game'...well, like I already said. It feels like they had an unfinished script about the Nibblers and dark matter, and then they decided to complete it with an unfinished Family Guy script, where the Griffins enter a fantasy world. It has its moments, but the laughs feel flat and the two different main stories don't work together. It was the first time that I was seriously disappointed by Futurama. They had some weaker episodes before, but even the one where Bender dreams of becoming a wooden robot has a higher rewatch value than this one IMO. -
Pleeeeeeeeease!
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Yeah, it sucked they dropped the Fry/Leela 'ship from BBS, but it was full of great gags ("MY LEG FEELS FUNNY!!!") and terrific animation. Bender's Game was probably my least favorite, mainly because spoofing fantasy is like shooting fish in a barrel. There's still some great stuff in it, but it's probably the one I'll return to the least often.
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Yikes Herc, this one is easily the worst of a pretty sad bunch. I mean, I don't want to rag on the guys who really put a lot of effort into these films, but this one in particular stunk and it surprises me to see anyone sticking up for it.
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1 and 2 were as good as the series. 3 is kinda lame. 4 is desperately lame.
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It depends on what you liked out of Futurama. Benders Big Score was callbacks + great character drama, but it was murdered by the terrible musical numbers and main villains. Beast with a Billion Backs was brilliant high-concept sci-fi, but it wasn't funny and the character moments weren't true. Bender's Game is all funny - the Tyrannosaurus bit might be the funniest thing I have ever seen. The last movie is the preachiest, and definitely the most like a long episode. My personal ordering is 3, 2, 1, 4; I bet there are people here with every single possible ordering.
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have been good. Bender's big score was imho the weakest. I liked Benders Game, probably my 2nd favorite after Beast With a Billion Backs(ps. herc your fucking crazy for not liking that one)
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"No...its a hobo and a rabbit, but I think they're making a hobbit."
I have an undying love for "Futurama" even though the movies are not quite up to the regular series. -
...John Di Maggio imitate Gene Ratburn of the Match Game on the commentary.
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Totally forgot that! The commentries for the Simpsons and Futurama are sometimes even funnier than a good episode of these shows, so it looks like I seriously got a reason to pop Bender's Game into the DVD player again :D
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But then it was just ... meh. Bender's Game is my opinion was the best of the bunch, although a little too much fan service in it.
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Gotta go with Bender's son. One of the few moments that actually had me cracking up for a good minute. I think it was in BWABB, if it was it was one of the few good moments in that one. Bender's game was pretty good.
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Benders Game is about as funny as the a mediocre episode of the series. Set's up the final Futurama movie well though. "Into The Wild Green Yonder", the next and final Futurama movie that will air on comedy central, is the best of the bunch and cannot be missed by any fan of the series.
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you cried for those but you didn't cry for the episode with fry's dog from the past? even I teared up.
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BWABB was by far the best. Benders Game was nothing but Epic Movie style humor where they would just recreate famous scenes from other movies or books without adding anything new, assuming that just referencing them is funny. BWABB on the other hand was heady, original sci-fi material that the show always strived for. It was also the most visually striking without a doubt. And very, very funny. Benders Big Score was second best, Wild Green Yonder was very disappointing but still not nearly as bad as benders game.
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Was fucking god awful. I think Benders game and Beast of A Billion Backs are the only two worth a damn. The first one was ok. But man Into the Wild Green Yonder was just terrible and lame. Not good, not even sorta good.
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...is that it's (apart from it's humorous tone) real old school science fiction. With starships, strange chratures, phenomenons in space and so on. Not that crappy pseudo realistic 9/11 based hipshit that the kids love today and makes snobby critics cream their pants. THIS is the Science Fiction that we all fell in love with as a child. Reality is for losers. Cool people love to use their imagination!
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I got no explaination for this typo.
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I'm rewatching my torrent of this now, i highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it before.
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When are you ever gonna do a Breaking Bad talkback?
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Last week, and I saw Benders game when it came out a little while ago and I can't even remember what Into the Wild Green Yonder was about just that it sucked. I remember most of Benders game. Like after finishing Into the Wild Green Yonder I was like, man I hope they don't bring this series back because they've lost it they've run out of ideas let it stay dead, but after Benders Game I was like Hell Yeah I want more Futurama. Like I've tried Big Scor and BWBB on CC before but I didn't feel like sitting through them all the way, but I will with Benders Game. That's just because I'm hard core.
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...the first episode should consist of nothing but Fry fucking Leela for 22 minutes.
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if I want to see this.
Benders Big Score was such a disapointment, that I haven't rented any of the others.
They were so *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*'y in it and it was completly unfunny.
So I've been avoiding them and just remember the classics.
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I was very surprised that an Ender's Game TV show would be on Comedy Central, and then I noticed the letter "B". My bad...
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The series was great, but these movies are fucking terrible.
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Fucking terrible. Word.
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Do they have a monkey there who doesn't know how to push the button that shows the episode in the correct order instead of showing two identical segments one aftre another?
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Nothing was funny. I could tell where the intended jokes were, but... not funny at all.
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Apr 26, 2009 9:18:45 PM CDT
Bender using his imagination cracked me up every ttime
by hellcametofrogtown
2nd one was the weakest. I'd say the order goes 1,3,4,2.
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wish I'd watched Jeff Goldblum eat on L&O:CI
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It was weird because it started off really good, and then it just went into something zany but funny. Give it the ole looky loo if its not as bad as Big Score.
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And they are poorly written fan-fiction. Pull your heads out of the sand, these Futurama movies are awful. They sully the good writing on the regular Futurama series. Don't be apologetics.
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But I liked Beast With a Billion Backs, too. I have no idea why everyone hates it. That said, I didn't love any of them the way I love original Futurama. They were amusing, but not masterful. And I haven't watched the last one yet.
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Yeah I liked beast with a billion backs as well. It got much better with repeat viewings. I loved all the scenes with the league of robots. The scene where the old stately robot is telling the story about leaving a human to die and then dragging his body to the docks is one of my favorite bits of dialogue on futurama.
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And there's about a one episode's worth (22 minutes, give or take) of Season 2-quality material amongst the 350 minutes of footage. Bender finding his son and then throwing him into the Robot Lake of Fire was fucking priceless, though.
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Adult Swim is terrible right now.
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and I dare say the same thing about the movies. Each time I saw the movies on DVD I came to the same conclusion: good, but not on par with the series. However, whenever I catch them a second time they somehow managed to improve. I wasn't crazy about Futurama until it went into repeats and I think the same is true of these films.
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this hasn't been on yet?
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That's pretty much the way I'd rank them.
I can't take too seriously anyone who places BwaBB anywhere but dead last. Really: Kif dies and Amy (having married Kif scenes before) bones Zapp. What?! Also, Fry's Brittany Murphy-voiced girlfriend (?!) may as well have been the wallpaper of Planet Express for all she contributed to the plot.
And, oh my God, they killed Scruffy. (You bastards!)
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It starts off pretty solid, and perhaps with the most similar vibe to the series proper; just the crew screwing around the office. But the tepid, generic parody which goes on for like 45 minutes is just terrible and way beneath the talents of everyone involved.
Which is odd, because its obvious from the extras that the writers are as big dorks about fantasy as they are about sci-fi. But that love comes out in the complex, witty and imaginative material they write for sci-fi. The Fantasy world they create is just bland and generic as they come. Rather than just a by-the-numbers parody of LotR, they should have created their own fantasy world which has its own character. As it was... ugh. Would have been tolerable for the same length of time their already pretty threadbare "Wizard of Oz" parody was... around 7 minutes. To have it last as long as it does in Bender's Game (especially since its a giant Red Herring, ending with the characters at [almost] the exact place they started) is a major flub from the usually solid creative team which at least aimed high for the other 3 films, even if it sometimes stumbled. -
Im glad you mentioned it, because this is a dead horse I've been beating in the talkbacks forever. Futurama is a animated comedy, sure, but its unique in that it really truly is written by sci-fi nerds. They're happy to tweak the genere's conventions, but at the end of they day they'd rather write a great sci-fi concept than just go for a million easy jokes. That, and its ability to wear its heart on its sleeve without devolving into sappiness, is what makes the series really unique and special. Everyone complaining about how "Wild Green" and "BwaBB" are terrible because they're fairly plotty is missing the point of the series, as far as I'm concerned. For the record, my personal ranking is 2, 4, 1, 3. But I think in order of quality they probably ought to go 1, 4, 2, 3. (to explain: Beast is my fav, and the most ambitious of the four, but it definitely suffers from some awkward pacing, while BBS I think tells the most effective story).
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