The Fourth Futurama direct to DVD film will be released on November 4th. Thanks to my handy dandy time portal (ie the Internet) I just finished watching it. As a long time fan of Futurama I of course have to tell you that this is the best thing since sliced bread. Bender's Game is more of the same antics from or lovable cast of main characters with the villain being Mom and her dimwit boys this time around.
The plot of this film is simple Mom is doing what all good oil companies do and throttling the supply of dark matter, jacking the price of fuel to an all time high. We learn that the professor is the one responsible for making dark matter a viable source of fuel by developing a crystal that reacts to all the dark matter causing it turn into fuel. He also creates an anti-dark matter crystal as well which when joined with the other crystal will destroy each other rendering the dark matter worthless. So they hatch a plan to destroy the crystals in order to make dark matter worthless and destroy mom's control over fuel. All this time Bender has been learning to play Dungeons and Dragons with the kids and ends up going insane believing that his fantasy world is real.
Our merry band of misfits (minus one Bender as he's taking a nice trip to the spa) takes off to destroy the crystals and ends up discovering that mom hasn't been mining dark matter but in fact all the dark matter turns out to be from captured Niblonians who have been caged and force fed chicken to farm dark matter. That's surprise one. In the process of of trying to destroy the crystal something happens and everyone is transported to a real Dungeon and Dragons fantasy land that is also hijacked from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Lots of laughs and adventuring latter the final battle for the crystal takes place at Mom's dungeon and we learn of the biggest secret of all and I'm not going to tell you. This time though Mom wins and collects the anti-dark matter crystal sending everyone back to the real world. However back in the real world the good guys still have the crystal and because of the big secret I can't tell you how that all ends but rest assured the good guys win.
The plot of this film is simple Mom is doing what all good oil companies do and throttling the supply of dark matter, jacking the price of fuel to an all time high. We learn that the professor is the one responsible for making dark matter a viable source of fuel by developing a crystal that reacts to all the dark matter causing it turn into fuel. He also creates an anti-dark matter crystal as well which when joined with the other crystal will destroy each other rendering the dark matter worthless. So they hatch a plan to destroy the crystals in order to make dark matter worthless and destroy mom's control over fuel. All this time Bender has been learning to play Dungeons and Dragons with the kids and ends up going insane believing that his fantasy world is real.
Our merry band of misfits (minus one Bender as he's taking a nice trip to the spa) takes off to destroy the crystals and ends up discovering that mom hasn't been mining dark matter but in fact all the dark matter turns out to be from captured Niblonians who have been caged and force fed chicken to farm dark matter. That's surprise one. In the process of of trying to destroy the crystal something happens and everyone is transported to a real Dungeon and Dragons fantasy land that is also hijacked from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Lots of laughs and adventuring latter the final battle for the crystal takes place at Mom's dungeon and we learn of the biggest secret of all and I'm not going to tell you. This time though Mom wins and collects the anti-dark matter crystal sending everyone back to the real world. However back in the real world the good guys still have the crystal and because of the big secret I can't tell you how that all ends but rest assured the good guys win.
I believe while this was better than the second Futurama movie it still isn't nearly as good as the first one was. The intro was pretty standered this time but had a yellow submarine short that followed which was pretty funny. I have this on my Netflix queue at the number one spot so cross your fingers that I get it when it's released (I don't see another dead space release happening actually) but I'm not holding my breath. I just want to see what else is on the DVD because they usually have some good extras on the DVDs. Anyways I also highly recommend you rent or even buy this one if you are even remotely a fan of Futurama. Good stuff.
