Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [2008]
£8.30
Not perfect but definitely good fun! - The plot of this feature length Futurama episode is no where near as intelligent as Bender s Big Score but it is just as enjoyable and possibly slightly more humourous (Bender s Big Score wasn t big on laughs). The funniest part for me was Destructor s line MY LEG FEELS FUNNY! this was back to the old almost unexplained hilarity of Futurama.However, the storyline is generally quite gross, which wouldn t bother everyone, but if you only like Futurama s really intelligent brand of humour, this is not for you.The special features are brilliant, particularly the animated trailer for An Inconvenient Truth and the epidode comprised of all the cut scenes from the old Futurama videogame, a real must have for any Futurama collection.Overall, I would say that this is brilliant for Futurama fans, it may not be as good as the series, but this is only because of the nature of the format.
WATCH IT AGAIN - I made the same mistake with this one as I did the last. I watched it the whole way through and came away thinking it was dreadful. Now, after watching it in 20 mins clips (as 4 episodes rather than a movie) I must confess....it is as good as the TV shows.With Bender taking over Earth, Fry becoming pope of a new religion....this cannot be missed for a futurama fan...gotta wait till Nov now for the next 1
So weak! No comparison to the TV series. - This and Benders Big Score where such a let down for me. I m a huge fan of the TV series and was looking forward to these feature length films. But all the writers have managed to do is mess up the characters and storylines created by the excellent TV series. All the jokes have been taken from the series. The storylines are weak and they just drag on and on. I wish they never bothered
Solid Futurama stuff... - I must be one of the very few people that prefered Bender s Big Score to this effort, which I gave 4 stars.Don t get me wrong, this is funny and average for Futurama, which for a fan still makes it better than alternatives! There were funny things going on, but the whole tentacle thing ended up being tedious for me as did the colleen poly-relationship joke. Could see where that was going pretty quick.Some people said Big Score was too confusing.... Well, it s a sad fact that some things do need an IQ in double figures to follow. Hardly fair for all animated fun to be simplistic! For me, this was also too repetitive. A recycled swamp side-story is a prime example of this.But.... As is sometimes the case with Futurama, the odd flashes of genius burst so brightly that their after image puts other more mediocre content in a better light, rather than just blowing it away. Bender s comments on love/lealousy are excellent observational type comedy, and the thing with the bricks... VERY funny. Almost made 3 stars into 4 in it s own right!
An great addition to the world of futurama - The Beast With a Billion Backs is an improvement on the already high standards of Bender s Big Score. Its plot and pacing are better suited to the feature-length format, and its romantic theme draws on the most touching elements of the television series. The dynamic between Fry and Leela is what makes Futurama more than a sci-fi spoof and remains an insistent argument for the continuation of the phenomenon. I would urge all Futurama fans to buy the first two straight to dvd films, as well as the two that are to come. Even if you have reservations about how the show works in this format, Fox will view strong DVD sales will be the single most convincing argument in favour of bringing Futurama back as a full blown TV series. This happened when Family Guy was cancelled (in my opinion a far inferior series which relies heavily on derivative humour and cut-away gags that The Simpsons abandoned after its first few seasons.)Encourage your friends to buy these DVDs, and indeed the boxsets of the first four series. We all know that Futurama is too special a series for us to let it fade Into the Wild Green Yonder.