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List Price: $29.99Price: $14.99You Save: $15 (50%)Futurama: Bender's Game
Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche
ASIN : B001DZOC78
Sales Rank : 86
Director : Dwayne Carey-Hill
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543541875
UPC : 024543541875
Release Date : December 04, 2008
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 88
DescriptionWith 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 lies a far stranger place... a medieval land of dragons and sorcery and intoxicated knights who look suspiciously like Bender. So park your hover-car and saddle up your unicorn for Futurama's grandest adventure yet: BENDER'S GAME! Amazon.comAt once a merciless skewering of all things fanboy and an extremely satisfying addition to the Futurama franchise, Bender's Game is among the best of the animated series' feature length adventures. The game in question is Dungeons and Dragons, and Bender wants in--only robots aren't programmed with the necessary imagination. Naturally, Bender's plans to develop one go completely awry and land him in an android asylum. The role-playing plotline later re-emerges--in typically convoluted Futurama fashion--via a subplot involving Professor Farnsworth's conversion of dark matter into spaceship fuel, which created a key to a very D&D-influenced universe where our hapless heroes eventually find themselves. The alternate world storyline allows for much lampooning of fantasy tropes, with Lord of the Rings receiving the lion's share of the tweaks. Seeing as how the writers have already devoted much of the movie's running time to parodying Star Wars and Star Trek (and their Lego offshoots), one might think that Bender's Game might suffer from pop-culture overload, but surprisingly, it all feels fresh and frequently funny, and the writers are wise to ground the story in their eccentric characters rather than pinballing them through an endless string of gags. The result is probably the strongest of the direct-to-DVD Futurama releases to date, and one that newcomers to the show's cracked universe can appreciate as much as longtime fans.As with previous Futurama DVD releases, the extras come fast and furious on Bender's Game: commentary by members of the cast and production team (including Matt Groening) is both informative and funny, while interviews with the writers and producers discuss, among other topics, the influence of Dungeons and Dragons on the series and the 3D models used in the feature. Aspiring animators might appreciate "How To Draw Futurama in 83 Easy Steps and the storyboard animatic for the first part of the story, while the "Genetics Lab" feature allows for some amusing Dr. Moreau-style cross-breeding of the characters. Recording session bloopers and a deleted scene offer their own laughs, but the most enjoyable extra must be the preview for the next Futurama feature, Into the Wild Green Yonder, which suggests a shocking development for one of the show's regulars. -- Paul Gaita
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List Price: $39.99Price: $27.99You Save: $12 (30%)Futurama: Bender's Game [Blu-ray]
Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche
ASIN : B001DZOC46
Sales Rank : 1887
Director : Dwayne Carey-Hill
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Format : AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 0024543541899
UPC : 024543541899
Release Date : December 04, 2008
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
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Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 87
DescriptionWith 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 lies a far stranger place... a medieval land of dragons and sorcery and intoxicated knights who look suspiciously like Bender. So park your hover-car and saddle up your unicorn for Futurama's grandest adventure yet: BENDER'S GAME! Amazon.comAt once a merciless skewering of all things fanboy and an extremely satisfying addition to the Futurama franchise, Bender's Game is among the best of the animated series' feature length adventures. The game in question is Dungeons and Dragons, and Bender wants in--only robots aren't programmed with the necessary imagination. Naturally, Bender's plans to develop one go completely awry and land him in an android asylum. The role-playing plotline later re-emerges--in typically convoluted Futurama fashion--via a subplot involving Professor Farnsworth's conversion of dark matter into spaceship fuel, which created a key to a very D&D-influenced universe where our hapless heroes eventually find themselves. The alternate world storyline allows for much lampooning of fantasy tropes, with Lord of the Rings receiving the lion's share of the tweaks. Seeing as how the writers have already devoted much of the movie's running time to parodying Star Wars and Star Trek (and their Lego offshoots), one might think that Bender's Game might suffer from pop-culture overload, but surprisingly, it all feels fresh and frequently funny, and the writers are wise to ground the story in their eccentric characters rather than pinballing them through an endless string of gags. The result is probably the strongest of the direct-to-DVD Futurama releases to date, and one that newcomers to the show's cracked universe can appreciate as much as longtime fans.As with previous Futurama DVD releases, the extras come fast and furious on Bender's Game: commentary by members of the cast and production team (including Matt Groening) is both informative and funny, while interviews with the writers and producers discuss, among other topics, the influence of Dungeons and Dragons on the series and the 3D models used in the feature. Aspiring animators might appreciate "How To Draw Futurama in 83 Easy Steps and the storyboard animatic for the first part of the story, while the "Genetics Lab" feature allows for some amusing Dr. Moreau-style cross-breeding of the characters. Recording session bloopers and a deleted scene offer their own laughs, but the most enjoyable extra must be the preview for the next Futurama feature, Into the Wild Green Yonder, which suggests a shocking development for one of the show's regulars. -- Paul Gaita
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List Price: $29.99Price: $21.99You Save: $8 (27%)Futurama - Bender's Big Score
Actors: John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Billy West, Al Gore, Sarah Silverman
ASIN : B000UZDO62
Sales Rank : 2438
Director : Dwayne Carey-Hill
Brand : WEST,BILLY
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Animated, Color, Surround Sound
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543480099
UPC : 024543480099
Release Date : December 27, 2007
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Running Time : 88
Product DescriptionStudio: Tcfhe Release Date: 11/27/2007 Amazon.comProving that you just can't keep a good animated series down, Bender's Big Score revives the Futurama crew in a full-length feature (reportedly, the first of four which will later be broken down into individual episodes for television broadcast) chock full of the satiric touches that made the Matt Groening series a cult favorite among sci-fi and animation fans. In true Futurama form, the plot of Big Score is proudly ridiculous: At its core, it's about alien telemarketers with a plan to steal Earth's most valuable historical objects, who use e-mail viruses to cripple Planet Express and take control of belligerent robot Bender; the latter carries out their scheme via a time-travel code tattooed on Fry's backside. This allows for all manner of subplots involving Fry's return to the 20 th century, romantic confusion between Fry and Leela (Katey Sagal), and a host of cameos ranging from Kwaanza-bot (Coolio) and Zapp Brannigan to Al Gore (voiced by the real former vice-president, who once again displays an offbeat sense of humor). Bender's Big Score also features a staggering amount of extras that reflect the show's sense of playful anarchy. Most valuable to longtime fans is the feature-length commentary by Groening, writers Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen, director Dwayne Carey-Hill, and cast members Billy West (Fry), DiMaggio, and Phil LaMarr, which provides a wealth of information on the film's production as well as plenty of laughs from the voice actors. "Futurama Returns!" is a live comic book reading by the cast in front of an enthusiastic convention audience, while "A Terrifying Message from Al Gore" is a short animated promo featuring the ex-veep in an animated promo for his Inconvenient Truth documentary (Gore's commentary for this short is worth the DVD's sale price alone), and "Bite My Shiny Metal X" is an amusing, tongue-in-cheek lesson on the mathematics used to deliver the show's futuristic touches. Perhaps the oddest extra is a full-length episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, a sitcom based around the bizarre title creature that will provoke equal amounts of laughter and exasperation. A small battery of deleted scenes, new character design sketches, and a five-minute promo shot for Comic-Con round out the extras. --Paul Gaita Futurama: Bender's Big Score Image Gallery
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List Price: $39.98Price: $31.99You Save: $7.99 (20%)Futurama, Vol. 1
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal
ASIN : B000083C6W
Sales Rank : 4525
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543069447
UPC : 024543069447
Release Date : December 25, 2003
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
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Label : Fox Film Corporation
Running Time : 299
DescriptionVarious Amazon.comSet in the year 3000, Futurama is the acme of sci-fi animated sitcom from Simpsons creator Matt Groening. While not as universally popular as The Simpsons, Futurama is equally hip and hilarious, thanks to its zippy lateral-thinking contemporary pop cultural references, celebrity appearances (Pamela Anderson and Leonard Nimoy are among a number of guest stars to appear as disembodied heads in jars), and Bender, a distinctly Homer Simpson-esque robot. Part of Futurama's charm is that with decades of sci-fi junk behind us, we've effectively been living with the distant future for years and can now have fun with it. Hence, the series stylishly jumbles motifs ranging from Lost in Space-style kitsch to the grim dystopia of Blade Runner. It also bridges the gap between the impossible dreams of your average science fiction fan and the slobbish reality of their comic reading, TV-watching existence. Groening himself distinguishes his two series thus: "The Simpsons is fictional. Futurama is real." The opening season (premiered in 1999) sees nerdy pizza delivery boy Fry transferred to the 31st century in a cryogenic mishap. There, he meets the beautiful, one-eyed Leela (voiced by Married with Children's Katey Sagal) and the incorrigible alcoholic robot Bender. The three of them join Fry's great (great, great, etc.) nephew Professor Farnsworth and work in his intergalactic delivery service. Hyper-real yet strangely recognizable situations ensue--Fry discovers he's a billionaire thanks to 1,000 years' accrued interest, Leela must fend off the attentions of Captain Kirk-like Lothario Zapp Brannigan, and Fry accidentally drinks the ruler of a strange planet of liquid beings. --David Stubbs
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List Price: $39.98Price: $31.99You Save: $7.99 (20%)Futurama, Vol. 2
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal
ASIN : B00008YGRS
Sales Rank : 5775
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543079194
UPC : 024543079194
Release Date : December 12, 2003
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
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Label : Fox Film Corporation
Running Time : 437
DescriptionVarious Amazon.comMatt Groening's second season of the 31st century sci-fi sitcom Futurama maintained the high scripting standards of the first and also well brought improved digital animation. Couch potato Fry now seems thoroughly reconciled to his new existence, transported 10 centuries hence to "New New York" and working for Professor Farmsworth's delivery service. He's surrounded by a cast of freaks, including the bitchily cute Amy (with whom he has a romantic brush) and Hermes, the West Indian bureaucrat. Most sympathetic is the one-eyed Leela (voiced by Katey Segal). Like Lisa Simpson, she is brilliant but unappreciated; she finds solace in her pet Nibbler, a tiny creature with a voracious, carnivorous appetite. By contrast, Bender, the robot, is programmed with every human vice, a sort of metal Homer Simpson with a malevolent streak. In one of the best episodes, Bender is given a "feelings" chip in order to empathize with Leela after he flushes Nibbler down the toilet. Elsewhere, Fry falls in love with a mermaid when the team discover the lost city of Atlanta, Fry and Bender end up going to war after they join the army to get a discount on gum, and John Goodman guest stars as Santa Claus, an eight-foot gun-toting robot. Brimful with blink-and-you'll-miss-them hip jokes (such as the sign for the Taco Bellevue hospital) and political and pop satire, Futurama isn't a stern warning of things to come but rather, as the makers put it, "a brilliant, hilarious reflection of our own materially (ridiculously) overdeveloped but morally underdeveloped society." --David Stubbs
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List Price: $39.98Price: $29.99You Save: $9.99 (25%)Futurama, Vol. 4
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal
ASIN : B0002B15J2
Sales Rank : 6410
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543120209
UPC : 024543120209
Release Date : December 24, 2004
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
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Label : Fox Film Corporation
Running Time : 414
Product DescriptionStudio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/22/2006 Amazon.comNo more good news, everyone--this fourth volume of Futurama is the show's last. By turns frenetic and far-sighted, Matt Groening's futuristic comedy provided belly-laughs for self-confessed sci-fi nerds, but somehow failed to connect with a broader audience, even though it was often funnier and sharper than stablemate The Simpsons. So now bid farewell to the Planet Express team--Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Bender, Amy, Hermes, Prof Farnsworth--as well as to kindly Kif, cloned Cubert, megalomaniac Mom, mutants in the sewer, the cast of robo-sitcom All My Circuits, swashbuckling space lothario and William Shatner wannabe Zapp Brannigan, Elzar the four-armed chef, and all the other characters that made Futurama such a unique experience. This fourth and final year has all the elements that fans enjoyed so much--but also those elements that partially explain its cancellation. Recurring characters are great if you've watched the show before, as are the in-jokes; and the many parodies of classic science fiction are fine for the initiated, but risk leaving other viewers out in the cold. The show's strengths and perceived weaknesses are exemplified in the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before," in which the original cast of Star Trek play themselves: hilarious for Trekkers, but not really for anyone else. Elsewhere we find Leela discovering her real parents aren't aliens at all but in fact live in the sewers; Kif getting pregnant; Fry discovering the fossilized remains of his faithful pet dog; and Bender being converted to steam power. Despite some ups and downs, it's still the funniest animated TV show. Multifarious DVD extras include cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes, animatics, galleries and Easter eggs. --Mark Walker
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List Price: $39.98Price: $29.99You Save: $9.99 (25%)Futurama, Vol. 3
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal
ASIN : B00013RBX0
Sales Rank : 3971
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Animated, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543105015
UPC : 024543105015
Release Date : December 09, 2004
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
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Label : Fox Film Corporation
Running Time : 506
Product DescriptionStudio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 552 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.comGood news, everyone, the third DVD volume of Futurama is just as funny as ever--irreverent, boundlessly inventive, warmhearted, and chock-full of in-jokes, sight gags, and fleeting references to all manner of pop-culture icons and obscure genre classics. In fact, if the show has a problem, it's that it's all so lovingly crafted that scarcely a frame goes by without something both funny and clever going on: when a horse wins a race by a quantum fraction, Prof. Farnsworth fulminates, "You changed the result by observing it!" Recurring minor characters (Elzar the chef, the robot mafia, the mutants in the sewers) pop up unexpectedly throughout, providing another wink to dedicated fans; like Red Dwarf, this is a show that loves the genre it sets out to spoof. Shame, then, that the show has had a troubled broadcast history and never quite found the mainstream appeal of its stablemate The Simpsons. Fry and the Planet Express team find themselves stranded on a planet of unfeasibly large women ("Amazon Women in the Mood"), standing in for psychotic Robo-Santa ("A Tale of Two Santas", with John Goodman reprising his evil robot), and variously falling in love with each other and sundry other humans, aliens, man-bots, fem-bots, virtual reality constructs, and even the Planet Express ship itself. Futurama, Vol. 3 comprises 22 episodes on four discs. As with previous DVD sets, the animated menus are a treat, and there's a selection of bonus features including deleted scenes, storyboards, commentaries on every episode, animatics, "How to draw" tips, and more. Sheer heaven. --Mark Walker
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List Price: $169.92Price: $106.76You Save: $63.16 (37%)Futurama, Volumes 1 - 4
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Lauren Tom
ASIN : B000JJ3Y7I
Sales Rank : 13106
Director : Ashley Lenz, Bret Haaland, Brian Sheesley, Carlos Baeza, Chris Sauve
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543410102
UPC : 024543410102
Number Of Discs : 15
Release Date : December 14, 2006
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
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List Price: $14.98Price: $9.99You Save: $4.99 (33%)Futurama - Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal
ASIN : B0007PAM10
Sales Rank : 12302
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543182313
UPC : 024543182313
Release Date : December 23, 2005
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
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Label : Fox Film Corporation
Running Time : 88
DescriptionINTERPLANETARY PANDEMONIUM! Quit your job, sell the dog, and run wild in the streets! The universe will never be the same now that executive producers Matt Groening and David X. Cohen have crammed four of their all-time favorite FUTURAMA episodes onto one astonishing DVD. There's no doubt about it: the Futurama Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection ranks as one of the greatest Maniac Fun Collections of all time. FUTURAMA is the epic, Emmy-Award-winning sci-fi comedy from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons. Set in New New York City in the year 3000, it's a future unlike anything you've ever imagined... unless you've imagined booze-powered robots, semi-literate lobsters, and horrifying yet sexy cyclopses. Someday all comedies will be this funny but you'll be dead!
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New Price: $101.65Futurama Volumes 1-4
Actors: Billy West, John Di Maggio, Katey Sagal
ASIN : B0006IO78M
Sales Rank : 45739
Studio : Fox Film Corporation
Region Code : 1
Format : Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543168294
UPC : 024543168294
Release Date : December 12, 2005
Publisher : Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer : Fox Film Corporation
Label : Fox Film Corporation
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