Bender's Big Score was... a pretty good addition to Futurama... it fitted together nicely as a story and didn't get the "this is really just 4 episodes glued together" feeling that some of the Family Guy "movies" have had... although, one could argue that Family Guy episodes play like a dozen gags and pop culture references glued together...

Beast With A Billion Backs was considerably less enjoyable. The latest effort, Bender's Game, is in some ways better and in some ways worse than it... but they average out to be about the same and both short of Bender's Big Score by some distance.

The basic premise of the story is a parody of Dungeons & Dragons and Lord of the Rings... it's Futurama does fantasy, essentially. Which in itself works fine but it takes so LONG to get to what feels like the ACTUAL story, that you're halfway through the film by the time the set up is out the way.

The set up is that Mom is jacking up the price of dark matter... which leads to some fairly uninspired exposition and the paper thin reason for Futurama goes fantasy... a MAGICAL D-12! Given that it's hugely contrived - it seems a shame that they took so long to get around to the fantasy realm, which is quite interesting and not used enough.

Fans of the show will probably enjoy it but really, it should have been a lot better.