94 - Futurama: Bender's Game

    There is a shortage (artificial) of dark matter.  Bender is bothered by his lack of an imagination.  These plots collide as the Professor runs his crew on a mission to make all of the dark matter in the universe inert, forcing the universe to work with a less cruel substance.
    This is one of the features that was released when Futurama had been cancelled on Fox.  The result is a collection of strange feature-length releases.  They're all created to function as both a feature, and as a trio of episodes.  This makes some of the editing and the scripting a little awkward.
    As a feature, this plays a little light on the comedy, and a little more heavy on the action.  There are still some great jokes, like the Morks being killed off.  There's also less of a stringent time requirement on these scripts, which gives them an opportunity to spread out.  The jokes don't come as fast as they would normally, which gives the illusion of this being less funny than normal episodes.
    There are a few themes being played around with, and what stood out more is the idea of the dark matter being unethical.  This makes this seem a little more like a precursor to what they were doing with Into the Wild Green Yonder.
    It's hard to write up about this feature as a movie.