Futurama: Bender's Game

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Movie
German title Futurama: Bender's Game
Original title Futurama: Bender's Game
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Dwayne Carey-Hill
script Eric Horsted
David X. Cohen
production Lee Supercinski
Claudia Katz
music Christopher Tyng
cut Paul D. Calder
chronology

←  Predecessor
Futurama: The Era of the Tentacle

Successor  →
Futurama: Leela and the Encyclopods

Futurama: Bender's Game is a science fiction - Cartoons feature-length from the year 2008 . It is the third of four films based on the television series Futurama and together make up its fifth production and sixth season. The direct-to-DVD production appeared in their country of production, the United States on November 4, 2008 in the UK already a day earlier and in Germany on December 5, 2008. The title is a reference to the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card .

action

After the prices for dark matter have risen sharply due to an artificial shortage , Prof. Farnsworth forbids flying the Planet Express spaceship unless it is absolutely necessary. However, Leela accepts a challenge for a demolition derby . She wins, but the ship is badly damaged. As punishment for wasting precious fuel, not for wrecking the ship, Leela is forced to wear a shock collar. This triggers electric shocks as soon as she has aggression, thinks about erotic things or lies. She should wear the collar so that she can control her aggressions. Meanwhile, Bender sees Cubert Farnsworth playing Dungeons & Dragons with his friends, but cannot join in as he allegedly has no imagination. But with a little effort he manages to imagine something and over time Bender settles more and more into his character Titanius Anglesmith. When Fry tells Professor Farnsworth about this hobby, Fry warns that role-playing games lead to a loss of reality in robots . Fry tries to stop Bender from playing, but Bender is already addicted, no longer recognizes reality and ends up at the HAL Institute for Insane Robots.

During a television interview, Prof. Farnsworth learns that Mom has the only dark matter mine in the world and is artificially reducing the supply so that she can make more money. Farnsworth says that he accidentally converted dark matter into fuel in an inconsequential experiment, which resulted in two crystals: an energy crystal and an anti-reverse crystal, which Farnsworth is keeping hidden. Should the crystals ever meet, all dark matter would be useless, but Prof. Farnsworth has no recollection of where he put the dodecahedral crystal. Cubert found it and used it as a cube. Mom sends her three sons Igner, Larry and Walt to Planet Express to retrieve the crystal, but they fail, but Professor Farnsworth finds the crystal on the floor. He suspects why Mom wanted to steal the thing and then goes to the mine with Leela and Fry to unite the crystals and thus thwart Mom's plans.

In the mine, the three discover that it is just a farm of nibblonians, whose excrement is dark matter. They are surprised by Igner, who overheard Mom when she was telling Walt and Larry a terrifying secret. For this reason Igner helps them to escape from his brothers, but they are put in Mom's office. Farnsworth then swallows the anti-crystal so that Mom doesn't get her hands on it. Ignar, who wears the energy crystal, approaches Professor Farnsworth, whereupon the dark matter reacts strangely due to the approach of the crystals. A shock wave discharges from Bender, who has a large amount of dark matter stowed in his torso because he believed Nibbler's excrement to be prey from his campaign, which transports those involved into an alternative universe based on Bender's fantasy.

After Frydo (Fry) and Leegola (Leela) are found by Titanius Angelsmith (Bender), they are attacked by Mom's sons and accidentally defeat them with the crystal that works as a cube. They meet with the magician Greyfarn (Prof. Farnsworth) and learn that the crystal or "Cube of Power" was created by the witch Momon (Mom) and that they have to go to the Gygax geysers to destroy the cube. The four meet Hermaphrodit (Hermes), the leader of the Centaurs , who involuntarily lets them move across their land. At the tunnel entrance where Morks live, Gynecaladriel (Amy) helps them get into the cave. In the cave they meet a huge lobster-like creature (Zoidberg), which later cuts off Leegola's head, which lives on. With Momon's army blocking the way to the Gygax geysers, Titanius Angelsmith, Gynecaldriel and Greyfarn travel to Wipecastle to summon the king's army, Frydo remains behind because the cube has taken possession of him. Momon's army then attacks Wipecastle, and shortly before their victory, Leela comes to the rescue with the Centaurs. Then Titanius Angelsmith, Gynecaldriel, Leela and Greyfarn move to the Gygax geysers.

After Igner tells the professor the secret that he is his son and that Momon has the cube, the Cornwood universe collapses and Farnsworth can combine both crystals and thus destroy them, so that dark matter becomes useless.

publication

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 4, 2008 .

Trivia

In the beginning sequence the spaceship flies through various rows of numbers, these are not random numbers, but the basis of the natural logarithm ( Euler's number e = 2.718281828459 ...).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Futurama: Bender's Game DVD. In: Blu-ray.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Futurama: Bender's Game Blu-ray. In: Blu-ray.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012 .

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