This is the 3rd of four movies which bring back the cancelled Futurama, and this was the first one that felt as good as the original, and is absolutely hysterical. This is a parody of Dungeons and Dragons and Lord of the Rings, and is right on. Finally Futurama is back! And the Yellow Submarine addition to the opening is hysterical and perfect!

Dark Matter, the fuel that runs all the spaceships seems to be in short supply and is driving prices sky high, which makes Professor Farsnworth (Billy West) that the ship can only be used when he says, and swallows the keys, but Leela (Katey Sagal) has gotten angry at some guys at a truck stop, and steals the ship to enter their destruction derby, and wins, but the ship is almost destroyed. So Leela is given a shock collar when she thinks violent thoughts, lies or sexual thoughts. Bender (John DiMaggio) meanwhile has joined young Cubert (Kath Soucie) and Dwight playing Dungeons & Dargons, and can’t play because being a robot he has no imagination. Bender tries really hard and imagines himsel a knight named Titanius Anglesith, and starts to think his fantasy is real, so they end up having to send him to the robot loony bin.

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Farnsworth reveals that the shortage is all a trick, as he used to work for Mom (Tress MacNeille) and was her lover, who made an experiment that made an energy crystal which makes Dark Matter into fuel, but it also created a dark crystal, which can cancel the good crystal, but he has lost it (and of course the kids are using it to play D&D). Mom sends her songs Walt, Larry and Inger to get the dark crystal, but fansworth gets it. They head to the mines, and find that it is not mines, but that Mom is feeding captured Nibllonians, who exrete dark Matter, and they have Leela’s pet Niblonian Nibler (Frank Welker) as well, who explains what is going on.

Ingus heard her mom’s darkest secret, and helps the others escape. Mom almost gets them, but Farnsworth swallows the crystal and gets near enough the other to resonate the dark matter, including that hidden in Bender, causing it to bring them all into Bender’s imaginary Cornwood world. Fry (Billy West) comes out, and Leela is now a Centaur, and they meet Bender who is Titanius. They three are chased by mom and Walt Larry and Ingus, and Fry drops the anti-crystal which rolls like a die, and brings out a special power, banishing the bad guys from the swamp.

They meet up with the Wizard GreyFarn (Farnsworth) and learn of the anti Crystal and how they must stop Momon (Mom) and destroy the crystals, and they must travel to her lair at the Geysers of Gygax.

They meet Hermes who is Hermaphrodite another Centaur, but they are all pacifists. They then meet up with Gynecaladriel (Amy (Lauren Tom) who is queen of the water Nympohs and can seduce anyone (even Leela)

They go into the Cave of Hopelessness and run into a giant monster that is Zoidberg and Leegola (Leela) kills him, but when she learns he is not a monster she runs off the rejoin her race. Frydo (Fry) rolls the die of power and turns giant and destroys the creature, then starts changing into a Gollum like creature.

They arrive at Wipe Castle, but find the king, the Robot Roberto has sent the army on a suicide mission, so they are only saved by Leegola and the centaurs who have finally come to fight.

Fry runs off, and meets Zoidberg’s head, which is still alive, and they head to destroy the crystal, and he drops the die and becomes a dragon like Momon. Igner reveals he is farnsworths son, and when he falls, giving the crystal to Momon, which collapeses the Cornwood worls.

Back in reality Farnsworth hugs his son Inger, and since they both swallowed the crystals the power of Dark Matter is killed, and noiw they no longer have power, and use the Nibblonians as sled dogs to drag the ship home.

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Silly and ridiculous fun!