Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Fresh off ripping space-time a new one at the end of "Bender's Big Score," the Planet Express crew is back to mend the tear in reality, or (hopefully) at least not make it worse. Beyond the tear, though, lurks a being of inconceivable...tentacularity. What will become of Earth, and indeed, our universe, when faced with the Beast with a Billion Backs?
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- Cast:
- Billy West , Katey Sagal , John DiMaggio , Phil LaMarr , Lauren Tom , Tress MacNeille , Maurice LaMarche
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Best movie of this year hands down!
The Worst Film Ever
Absolutely the worst movie.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
W1 - Okay, we have to hit this one out of the park W2 - Why? There's so much preloaded love, we can do anything we want W3 - What if we did anything we wanted and hit it out of the park W1 - I'm listening...W3 - Okay, what's the most disgusting/disturbing animation genre to date? W1 - Hentai tentacle monster rape W2 - Yeah, tentacle monster sexual domination. A convenient way for early Japanese anime perverts to show sexual entry without showing the then prohibited male organ. It turned out twice as freaky as what the censors were trying to prevent, and spawned a whole industry of categorical tentacle sex fantasy.W1 - Makes sense, if you look at the early Japanese woodblock prints of sexual acts with Octopi there's a historical precedent.W3 - Okay, so we parody this whole overly serious genre and wring a continually referenced joke out of it.W2 - Parody? I think were past that.W1 - You don't...W3 - You aren't suggesting...W2 - Yeah. I am. Just have a big monster show up and do the nasty with the casty via tentacle love.W3 - You're insane! Tell me more.W2 - Not talking full frontal here, but we can sure steer it to sex without the victim clicking to it too quick.W1 - Matrixy! Ooh, that makes me think that the sex...W3 - Is in the neck! W2 - Precisely. We're all about head F#$%s anyway.W1 - Okay, throw in some religious overtones, a few dozen movie references, Leela's buzzkill shtick...W2 - While we're at it, let's tentacle everybody in the universe.W3 - I think we're done here.W1 - Think we could get David Cross to voice the Beast? W2 - I was texting his agent ten minutes ago.
I have been suitably impressed with the quality of the reviews I have thus far read (good to see a University degree is not a waste!). Just a question and I do hope a die hard fan can answer me this: Why is it in the opening scene 'The beast with a billion backs'all people including scientists do not know the cause of the time rip that has been present for a month where as at the end of 'Bender's big score' it was known to have occurred due to the overuse of the time travel code?How so is the cause of the first film so easily disregarded for the second one? Could someone be so kind as to explain it to me? Indeed I have searched for answers however I am hoping one of you kind folks answer me the riddle I just presented. Cheers.
Better than Bender's Big Score by a thousand. The plot goes together smoothly and the jokes are much better than those of the original Futurama episodes, as they are random and steps away from it's Simpsons-side.A hole in space that has been there for months leads Professor and the Earth military to start an expedition. When Fry is successful at going inside, he meets a giant beast that Fry loves and pushes a tentacle which ended up to be gentacles in everyone to share the love. This goes wrong when Leela figures things out and the monster becomes nice and starts.. well, this is odd. The monster is going out with Earth. It's like a war strategy except it's a dating strategy for Earth. Hilarious and very unusual for this. Haha.This is a great movie. If you have seen the previous movie and if you enjoyed Futurama, you must see this. You don't have to have seen the previous movie to get this but its better to compare. I loved it and I think you will, too. I was not disappointed.
We are now halfway through the four planned Futurama feature-length films, and any optimism that was generated by 'Bender's Big Score' has most definitely been killed by 'The Beast with a Billion Backs'. The first one was well written, cute, clever, and often very funny. Sure, the jokes didn't always work, but the story was good and the writers seemed for the most part to be able to avoid reducing the characters to mere caricatures of themselves. The second one was downright idiotic. The characters aren't funny, only annoying. For instance, there's way too much Kif. Kif should never, or at least hardly ever be on screen without Zap. In the new one, he kind of reminds me of Jar Jar Binks, which I'm sure you will agree is no flattering comparison. Zap is also used way too predictably. Fry's new girlfriend is a pointless character. Fry himself contributes little in the way of humour. The writers seem to have converted him into a sniveling, sappy wimp, apparently with the aim of playing off his schmaltziness. But that trait is only endearing when it is occasional. As for the story, it lacks the delicious complexity of the first movie as well as some of the best episodes. The first hour flows like a glacier. The end of the film is the only decent bit, but it is hardly redeeming. Furthermore, the writers had a golden opportunity to make a deep, philosophical point at the end about the way humanity inevitably screws things up when it has a good thing going, but this was shamefully squandered. And finally, the league of robots and Kif/Amy wedding subplots are uninspired and nauseating, respectively, though the former does have its moments. All in all, it will be hard for the third installment to make 'The Beast with a Billion Backs' look good. Let's hope it doesn't.