Product Description

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: 2252093

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #235 in DVD
• Brand: FUTURAMA: BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS (DVD MOV
• Released on: 2008-06-24
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 89 minutes

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Studio 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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Studio 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.

Futurama: 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:

-Commentary By Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, Claudia Katz, Peter Avanzino and Lee Supercinski
-Futurama The Lost Adventure - a long-lost full-length adventure produced for the video game with audio commentary by Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, J. Stewart Burns and Lee Supercinski
-Meet Yivo! Featurette with David Cross
-A Brief History Of Deathball Featurette
-Blooperama: The Futurama Cast At
-3D Models With Animator Discussion
-Storyboard Animatic: The Beast With A Billion Backs, Part One
-A Sneak Peek at the Next Futurama Epic! -Deleted Scenes/Storyboards: Original Opening, Fry and Colleen Meeting, St. Asimov Parade, Zapp and Scientists, Amy Fry and Leela, Scruffy the Janitor
-Futurama: Bender's Game - a sneak peek at the next Futurama epic!

Customer Reviews

Delightful "episode"
I'm a laid-back fan of Futurama. If you liked the series, or are a fan of well-done animation, you'll like this DVD. However, you should really set your expectations to be the same as if you were watching a 3-part TV episode, not a "real movie" with popcorn and all the trimmings.

Having said that, the animation values are absolutely top-notch, the sound and music are really well done, the voicing is as great as usual, and the script is entertaining enough to pull everything together. To sum up, any DVD featuring Bender has a big lead on the competition. Or you can kiss my shiny metal a**!

Disappointing
This is a rare disappointment for me, a huge fan of all things Groening and Futurama in particular. The first thing that is perhaps small but really bugs me is the Disney-esque style applied to the animation. The first bit we see is in the first scene when Zoidberg sends the table flying and liquid drips down the window. The effect is rather languid and self-conscious. Like, "Look at us we can do the detail oriented cloying animation that we often deride in our writing." There was some of this in the Simpsons Movie but it was, generally, in the context of satire. I felt this tone was over-wrought in "Beast" and really detracted from the visual style of Futurama which is a much more important facet. The more I watch and think about it the more I dislike it. It feels like a real sell-out. Perhaps my antipathy is magnified by the third-rate writing. The plot is extremel weak. I won't be a spoiler but just say the narrative builds somewhat awkwardly to a climax then fizzles out in an insipid attempt at relationship humor. I can't say I recommend buying this. I feel a little ripped-off.

Not funny, poor writing, disturbing
I loved Futurama. I even liked the first movie, although not nearly as much as the series. I have also never written an online review like this, but felt compelled after seeing this. This movie was a complete disappointment. The pace was slow, many subplots were totally pointless, the portrayal of the characters was completely inconsistent with how they were developed in the series, the main plot was very disturbing, and there was almost no good humor.

The obvious insertion of the flying spaghetti monster (an atheist icon) as the big bad monster and the portrayal of the "God" character Yivo (named very similar to Yahweh, the Christian God) as a crazy mass rapist and forceful conqueror is also quite insulting. I'm all for making fun of the ritualistic hyper-religious folk, as we often need to take ourselves a little less seriously, but this seriously crossed the line. We are the ones who should take ourselves more lightly and take God seriously. They might as well as just come out and had one of the characters yell in my face "I hate you and everything you believe in!". I can't completely fault them on this point, as I fully know that apart from God's loving intervention in our lives that's what everyone thinks. But to characterize the attention of a God who saves us a loving father as a mass rapist is unbelievably hurtful.

Even with that, the central message was still fairly absent, as the movie seemed to have no coherent message or point. I can't believe I paid money for this, and I'm quite disappointed in the Futurama crew. They should have killed this one even before it made it to an animatic. If this review prevents a few people from buying the DVD and encourages the creators to attempt to undo some of the damage this movie did to their intellectual property, I think the time writing this review will be worth it.