Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free First Class Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
21 used & new from £8.85
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Futurama - Bender's Game [DVD] [2008]
 
See larger image 

See 1 customer image
Share your own customer images

Futurama - Bender's Game [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Billy West
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.98 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £9.01 (45%)
In stock.
Items for dispatch to UK will be sold by Amazon's Preferred Merchant. (Why?) Gift-wrap available.

16 new from £8.85 4 used from £9.00 1 collectible from £20.00
Learn about Lovefilm
Amazon's choice for DVD rental.
With a 14 day FREE trial. Learn more

Watch a Related Video
00:20

Frequently Bought Together

Futurama - Bender's Game [DVD] [2008] + Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder [DVD] [2008] + Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [DVD] [2008]
Total RRP: £51.97
Price For All Three: £33.94

Show availability and shipping details

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Futurama - Bender's Game [DVD] [2008]
81% buy the item featured on this page:
Futurama - Bender's Game [DVD] [2008] 3.8 out of 5 stars (30)
£10.98
Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder [DVD] [2008]
7% buy
Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder [DVD] [2008] 4.3 out of 5 stars (31)
£11.48
Futurama - Bender's Big Score [DVD] [2007]
5% buy
Futurama - Bender's Big Score [DVD] [2007] 3.7 out of 5 stars (67)
£11.48
Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [DVD] [2008]
4% buy
Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [DVD] [2008] 3.8 out of 5 stars (32)
£11.48
Explore similar items

Product details

  • Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal
  • Directors: Dwayne Carey-Hill
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Nov 2008
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0015FRI2M
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,183 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The third of a series of four planned Futurama spin-off TV movies, Bender’s Game follows Bender’s Big Score and Beast With A Billion Backs, and comfortably sits alongside them. It’s good, and it’s sometimes very funny, but is unlikely still to be regarded as vintage Futurama.

The plot of Bender’s Game takes the regulars on a mission that soon sees them in a strange land, which bears a striking resemblance to something out of Dungeons and Dragons or Lord of the Rings. This isn’t, as you’d expect, the safest place to be, and thus the scene is set for lots of genre gags that are, at their finest, hard to resist.

On the downside, the pacing is a little off this time round, and it takes Bender’s Game some time to hit its stride. The quest part of the movie doesn’t kick into until well over half the running time is up, and while there’s real ambition in the narrative, it does demand some patience.

But still, even if this isn’t top notch Futurama, it still packs in plenty of belly laughs, and squeezes more entertainment into 84 minutes than many movies get close to in two hours. You still yearn for the tightness of the TV show format, but the quality of the writing just about drags Bender’s Game through, leaving us thirsting for the fourth, and potentially final, movie. --Jon Foster

Synopsis
As a result of soaring fuel prices, the Planet Express team set off on a risky mission to gain access to a dark-matter mine and recover spaceship fuel. However, under the mine lies a bizarre DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS style land. The crew encounter numerous enemies in the medieval realm and a drunken knight who happens to look quite a lot like Bender.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder [DVD] [2008]

Futurama - Into The Wild Green Yonder [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Billy West
4.3 out of 5 stars (31)  £11.48
Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [DVD] [2008]

Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Billy West
3.8 out of 5 stars (32)  £11.48
Futurama - Bender's Big Score [DVD] [2007]

Futurama - Bender's Big Score [DVD] [2007]

DVD ~ Billy West
3.7 out of 5 stars (67)  £11.48
Family Guy - Season 7 - Complete [DVD]

Family Guy - Season 7 - Complete [DVD]

DVD ~ Family Guy
4.2 out of 5 stars (45)  £10.98
American Dad - Season 4 - Complete [DVD] [2008]

American Dad - Season 4 - Complete [DVD] [2008]

DVD ~ Seth MacFarlane
4.3 out of 5 stars (9)  £15.38
› Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(9)
(6)
(5)
(5)
(4)
(2)
(2)
See all 12 tags...

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

30 Reviews
5 star:
 (13)
4 star:
 (6)
3 star:
 (3)
2 star:
 (7)
1 star:
 (1)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.8 out of 5 stars (30 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to the bad reviews - this is the BEST Futurama film!!, 24 Nov 2008
After reading the mixed reviews on here, I wasn't expecting all that much from this latest Futurama movie (why is it that we're always more liable to believe the bad reviews than the good?!). I enjoyed Bender's Big Score but was mildly disappointed by The Beast with a Billion Backs...so was a little concerned that this would be another disappointment. How wrong I was! People can moan all they like, but the bottom line is that this is definitely the most entertaining and FUNNIEST Futurama film yet. I laughed more at this than the first two put together. It's a gag a minute with some delicious parodies of Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons-type fantasy worlds. This one has definite potential for re-watching and, unlike the Beast with a Billion Backs, I look forward to watching it again and again. Lots of hilarity, particularly from our friend Zoidberg and Mom, who is one of my favourite Futurama characters! Loved it!!
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A big improvement on previous releases, 8 Mar 2009
By Binro The Heretic "mattieboyz" (Hillsborough, Sheffield) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)      
Bender's Game just goes to show that there is plenty of life in the Futurama series yet. After the disappointing 'Beast with a Billion Backs' this restored my faith in the show; cast and production team are all at the top of their respective games and the pastiche of the Lord of the Rings series is side-splittingly funny. Get this if you can and don't bother with 'Beast' unless you are a completist.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars worst Futurama experience ever, 24 Jan 2009
By Marius Liesdek "lieserd" (Amsterdam Netherlands) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
this was the most uninteresting and unfunny (long) episode of Futurama I've seen so far. Why? The one thing that I found the most uninspired was the fact that they seemed to use a lot of references of Lord of the Rings etc. but that it was not used in the same smart and funny in which they usually do it. It's not enough to copy something so that one might recognize it from something else, you actually have to do something more, and that wasn't the case here.
I am very disappointed by this feature, and up until now I liked most of the stuff from Futurama, but this bad release makes me think twice about buying the next feature.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
One of the best Dvds we've bought - still better than anything offered on UK TV at the moment (apart from Futurama, Simpsons, South Park of course). Great birthday pressie.
Published 3 months ago by Yorkney

5.0 out of 5 stars "Great Shatner's Ghost!", this is the Futurama film to own
I have to agree with other reviews that this is definitely the best of the four Futurama movies. All the others left me disappointed to one degree or another, especially the... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Stuart Briggs

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
This is the best futurama film so far. Had me laughing in histerics, very original. Futurama is back
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Aj Lee

4.0 out of 5 stars Best of the films so far!
I'm a huge Futurama fan but have been disappointed by the first 2 films. This 3rd one however made me laugh. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. Steele

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought the otehr films were a bit dodgy?
This is the best futurama film hands down. Best jokes, funny characters, great premise and those D&D, LOTR, Hrry Potter references are priceless! Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. Lo

5.0 out of 5 stars dunces and dragons
more from futurama, the science fiction cartoon from the people who brought you the simpsons. Like the last two releases beast with a billion backs and bender's big score this is... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Paul Tapner

2.0 out of 5 stars Still heading downhill...
The first 4 seasons of Futurama are masterpieces, with originality, plently of wit with a dash of adult humour, good to amazing storylines and most importantly structure... Read more
Published 6 months ago by K. Wallace

3.0 out of 5 stars futurama; benders game.
Better than the first two but still dissapointing, if your a die hard fan and have got the series on dvd you are going to buy this anyway, i did, good to know that they are... Read more
Published 6 months ago by A. Fox

5.0 out of 5 stars Great episode, doesn't feel like a movie.
It was very entertaining and i could easily watch it again. Why are people giving 1star just be happy you got new futurama, looking forward to the next installment now.
Published 6 months ago by Hiphopotomaus642

5.0 out of 5 stars Meh, I enjoyed it... Bender is better than Tom Hanks in Myths and Monsters...
Whats to say? You either like the Futurama take on other peoples plots or you don't. I wasn't keen on Benders Big Score because it seemed overloaded and time travel paradox plots... Read more
Published 6 months ago by R. A. Caton

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (1 discussion)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
Release Date 0 April 2008
› See all discussions...  
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject








i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Fun for Everyone

Christmas Gifts
Achieve over 15,000 RPM with our great range of Powerballs.

›Shop the Powerball store

  

Up to 75% off Shoes

Shoe Clearance - 75% off Shoes
Save up to 75% on shoes for the whole family.

›Shop clearance shoes

  

We've Got Converse

Converse
Stock up on your favourite styles with great deals on Converse shoes.

›Shop Converse

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates