Murphy Howard
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
lewiskendell
I was worried after seeing Bender's Big Score. Extremely worried. What's the point of bringing Futurama back from the grave, if it was only going to be a mediocre shell of it's former self? If the second movie followed in the footsteps of the first, I would have preferred that the series would have stayed a fond memory. Thankfully, these dire thoughts didn't turn out to be reality. The Beast with a Billion Backs is good. Still not fantastic, as the original series was, but much better than Bender's Big Score. It did a few things right that BBS absolutely failed at. The story was coherent, the characters seemed much more like themselves, and it was actually funny. I found myself laughing out loud several times during the movie, and that really helped assure me that this wonderful series wasn't reborn only to be buried under crud.If you're a long-term fan of Futurama, I'd recommend that you skip right over Bender's Big Score, and start your re-acquaintance with Futurama with this movie. There's really only one important plot point that carries over from the first movie, and knowing about that isn't worth the disappointment of watching it. In my opinion, Futurama officially re-begins here.
businessgypsy
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.
Esteban Tapia
I simply cannot understand the reason behind the bad reviews posted here. For fans: Futurama is back! And with great difference to the disappointment of Bender's Big Score, it's back on track and on it's toes once again. For non fans: Watch it, enjoy it, judge it then. It depicts characters in a realistic manner, they're understandable and their personalities are well portrayed, it also doesn't hurt at all the series as there's no spoilers or messing with timelines.I loved this film! It made laugh, it got me excited and it entertained me, a lot! It's fast paced, it has a well strung smart storyline and it doesn't abuse it's characters like the previous film. I had hard feelings about their previous attempt, I definitely hated Bender's Big Score as it got me worried that Futurama was completely lost, but this film turned around all of that! I'm tremendously glad that Groening and co. managed to return from the dark side of over-dramatic plots accompanied of simple knock knock jokes to once again deliver great, quirky and smart episodes.Futurama is back folks!
noamzs
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.
