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: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Movie Review: Futurama preaching UNIVERSAL LOVE...literally
Summary: 5 Stars
Beast with a Billion Backs, from what I imagine watching the preview, caused me to think this movie would be dull, or one dimentional. NO WAY IS THIS A DULL FILM. In fact, this movie is really cool. Much of the film revolves around strange, freaked outed twists on "permittable" love. LOVE and LOSS is a big part the movie, right up to the film's funeral ending. In the last film, it ends with a funeral too. Plus, love themes once more predominate. Lars and Leela's relationship hurt Fry more than it appeared, cos now, Fry is out for vengence. Jealousy is what's behind most of this film's plot. In a way, it pleads for the nessecity of a committed relationship, in order to be happy. The Beast from the other Universe is attempting to seduce and controll the universe, thru a parody of 1950's trite mating behavior. That was a fun part of the film. During the film, Leela becomes more and more isolated from everyone. Even when the whole universe falls in love with a space octopus monster, Leela resists, because she is very skeptical about love, bottom line. Plus she wants the perfect man, and he's not out there. Anyway, when's the last time a film made you wonder, "Should a Gigantic space monster fall in love, and mate, the species of another Universe?" Let me know if you have seen one, cos I'd like to see it too. It's surreal, and overintellectualized often, but the film has some classic themes behind the humor. That's what makes FUTURAMA fun to watch for adults. (This is not a children's show at all.) This Futurama film has great Scifi spoofs, a humorous view of the folly of love, and FUN ON A BUN!! Beast of a Billion Backs has a TON of fantastic one-liners, hilarious sight gags, and all the twists and movements of LOVE'S GRAND FOLLY. (Not unlike a Shakespeare comedy...which is where "THE BEAST WITH TWO BACKS" comes from, BTW.) Even tho the film's funny, a farce, it often seems real. People grieve, get depressed, elated by love, jealous, and everything else. Strangely once more, the film is filled with loss. At one point or another, everybody or another becomes broken hearted. Everyone is this film is jealous, and deeply so. But it seems these characters just love to make bad choices, when it comes to love, they do it consistantly. The innocence of the love choices, made by fools, and not cruel people, is why this is a comedy film. That it's animated, is incidental. So, I would buy this, for the movie alone.
This movie has some INCREDIBLE movie extras. First off, is the 30 minute extra cartoon episode, that was made for the video game. The game's animation look was a little odd. The characters were a cross between 3-D, and line drawings. Even with that, the extra show's jokes, wierd plot, and wild fantasy of invention, (like an earth sized space ship), made that the best extra since HYPNOTOAD. The parts of the extra cartoon where the Futurama characters are "playing the video game", is minimal. It's such a cool extra for a movie...a short film!! Along with that, comes a big chunk of "Animatics", for the first part of the film. It's like watching hand drawn comic book windows, without the dialouge balloons. Also, very cool. And as always, the commentary is at least as good as the film dialouge. After so many DVD commentaries, for the original series, and now these films, this crew has their off the cuff banter/ comedy routines polished bright. PLUS, the DVD threw in a GREAT teaser.....a coming attraction of the next Futurama film! THANK YOU.
Unlike the "cliffhanger" on the first film, ie the end of all creation, this movie does not end on an unresolved note. If anything, it seems as tho the film wants to drive home the belief " JEALOUSY PROVES TRUE LOVE." It also shows that using jealousy to test love, only ends in broken hearts. My guess is that revelation to the Futurama characters, is going to be important in the next 2 films. I think that BWABB is A GREAT MOVEMENT FORWARD for the series' story arc. Hopefully, the experiences that both Fry and Leela have gone thru, might have showed them both, to accept each other, faults and all. I can only imagine, that by the last film, wedding bells might be ringing.
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: 2252093Similar DVD Movies
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