Bender's Game reviewed

From screenjabber, Buckle your sphincters, Futurama fans — you're in for the wildest ride yet. As you may have guessed by now, we here at Screenjabber Towers kinda like Futurama. We have all the original episodes on DVD. We have an inflatable Leela (for purely decorative purposes, of course). We adored the first direct-to-DVD movie, Bender's Big Score. We were over the moon about the second movie, The Beast With a Billion Backs. Now we have number three to slake our Futurama thirst until 2009. And no, it's not called Redneck Yokels From Beyond the Stars (although maybe that's a good title for a future episode?) but Bender's Game, and it's the funniest Futurama film yet.

The story begins with with Cubert, Dwight and some of their little friends playing Dungeons & Dragons in the Planet Express conference room. Poor Bender — he wants to join in and play with the kids, but robots don't come with imaginations installed (I guess they must be an optional extra). As you would expect, Bender takes this whole imagination thing a little too far, and develops a slight problem telling fantasy from reality. He goes slightly crazy (well, crazier than normal) and finds himself swathed in a straitjacket, locked away in a padded cell at the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. And yes, the robot nurse is named Ratchet. Plus we get a bonus guest appearance from Rosie, the robot maid from The Jetsons (but we can only guess at what she's inside for).

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