Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
by Peter Avanzino
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Actor: Billy West, Brittany Murphy, Dan Castellaneta, David Cross, Phil LaMarrDirector: Peter Avanzino
Brand: FUTURAMA: BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS (DVD MOV
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Movie Review: What's with the bad reviews?
Summary: 5 Stars
First, to the people who are over-analyzing the movie, relax, it's a cartoon. The same can be said to those who wrote a five page thesis of a review.
I've watched as much Futurama as anyone. This movie is outstanding; almost as good as the 4th season of the show. It's entertaining, trippy, funny, and weird. The plot doesn't jump around as much as the first movie, and the characters that are in Beast are in it because they should be, not because the writers wanted to revisit every single character. (By the way, I would have given Big Score 4 stars).
I don't understand the complaints about the plot. The plot has to do with the concepts of heaven, love (and sex), and of alternate universes. To me, that's pretty deep (right up there with the Godfellas episode in which Bender is God). The sight gags and one liners fit into the movie, not like Family Guy which has to cut to completely unrelated scenes).
Yes, some of the humor is gross, but no worse than Zoidburg vomiting up pearls in the hippie episode. Yes, some of the characters are a little out of character, but that also happened in the show (see the professor or hermes in the fathering episodes).
I don't know what you people were expecting...an life changing, epic, tour de force? It's a cartoon, it's funny, it's neat looking, and it reminds me of what Futurama once was. Enjoy.
Summary of Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
The thrilling conclusion to Futurama: Benders Big Score.Bender and the planet express crew must contend with a massive cosmic team that sends the world into panic.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/CARTOON NETWORK Rating: NR UPC: 024543520931 Manufacturer No: 2252093Studio description:
In Futurama's latest and most tentacle-packed epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. But what lies beyond? Horror? Love? Or maybe both, if it happens to contain a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions! Nothing less than the fate of human and robot-kind is at stake as the Futurama crew takes on The Beast with a Billion Backs.
The Beast with a Billion Backs will be presented in widescreen format with English Dolby Surround 5.1, along with French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
The second of four direct-to-DVD adventures featuring the Futurama crew, The Beast with a Billion Backs picks up where its predecessor, Bender's Big Score, left off while balancing multiple love stories and the arrival of a sexually voracious alien from another universe. Unlike Bender, the various story lines converge well here--the tentacled, Lovecraftian creature Yivo (voiced by David Cross), which wants to mate with the entire population of the universe at once, makes Fry (Billy West) its de facto leader (Pope, actually), which in turn plays havoc with his relationship with new girlfriend Colleen (Brittany Murphy). And Yivo's scheme causes the people of Earth to evacuate the planet, leaving it in the hands of robots--which is, of course, excellent news for Futurama's resident mechanical malcontent, Bender (John DiMaggio). Beast is probably best understood and enjoyed by longtime fans of the series, who will recognize and appreciate the countless "surprise guests" (Robot Satan, the Harlem Globetrotters, Bender's hero Calculon, the head of Stephen Hawking), though the feature is certainly well-written and performed by its voice cast, and should provide plenty laughs for first-timers with flexible attention spans. Parents, however, should note that the humor can be fairly suggestive at times, and should exercise caution in regard to younger viewers.
Extras include a very funny commentary track with creators Matt Groening and David X Cohen, stars West, DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche, and key members of the production team. Deleted scenes and a making-of featurette with the voice cast are entertaining, but the real features of value are Futurama: The Lost Adventure, which is culled from the Futurama game for Playstation 2, as well as a lengthy preview of the next direct-to-DVD movie, Bender's Game. Suffice it to say that the Lord of the Rings weighs heavily on the storyline. -- Paul Gaita
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