Pluskylang Great Film overall

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The_Film_Cricket Finding a balance between comic invention and sci-fi nonsense has been the pinnacle of TV's very funny "Futurama", and according to the show creator Matt Groening, this is a balance that the execs at the FOX network never understood. That explains why this inventive hit show was dumped in 1999 after only 72 episodes. The network didn't understand this show but the legions of fans sure did. Beginning in 2003, the show was given new life thanks to a highly rated string of reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup which ran nearly as long as the show's original run. There are those still hoping that its popularity in reruns will bring about new episodes just like FOX's other briefly canceled hit "Family Guy".There is no series rebirth of Futurama yet but fans were delighted when a series of straight-to-DVD feature films began appearing last Christmas. Proposed to be a four-part series, it began with the ambitious Futurama: Bender's Big Score, a time-twisty two-hour movie in which the Planet Express crew had to save earth from a trio of nudist alien scam artists who used a time sphere to steal artifacts from history. The cleverly written story sent Bender and Fry back and forth in history through a plot so complicated that even the writers are at a loss to explain it. It ended, I was happy to discover, with a cliff-hanger as the universe ripped itself open as Bender informs us "Well, we're boned!" Now, here we are at Part 2, with the ungainly title "The Beast With a Billion Backs" and this one doesn't have the spark of the earlier movie. It begins by attempting to tie up that space-rip problem as Stephen Hawking teams Professor Farnsworth and his super-centenarian arch-enemy Ogden Wernstrom to figure out the problem. Meanwhile, Fry attempts to deal with his new girlfriend Colleen (voiced by Britney Murphy) and her quartet of other boyfriends. When he finally decides, after weeks, that he can't compete with four other guys he decides to float himself to the space anomaly and end and it all. Unfortunately, he returns to earth hooked to an alien tentacle (which is hooked to a planet sized entity, voice by David Cross) and proclaims a new religion. That tentacle attaches itself to the inhabitants of this planet, pumps them full of good feeling and effectively begins "dating" humanity. Believe me, it gets worse.I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of this bizarre plot, suffice to say that even hard-core Futurama fans (which includes yours truly) will find it a bit much to take. That would be okay if the jokes worked but I am sorry to report that many of them don't. As a show and as a feature film, Futurama succeeds at throwing a joke or a sight-gag at us at the rate of about three every ten seconds so that even if you laugh 25% of the time, you still enjoy yourself. Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs has enough creative energy for ten movies and a plot that would leave Roger Corman baffled.** (of four)

WakenPayne I Am A Fan Of The TV Show & The Original Movie But NOT THIS ONE. WHAT IN GODS NAME HAPPENED. You Get Brittney Murphy Doing A Voice-over. Not Only Was She Ugly But Her Voice Sounds Like Sh!t. Her Only Good Film Was Drop Dead Gorgeous. The Planet Express crew must work to fix rips between their universe and another inhabited by a planet-sized, tentacle alien which soon takes over the Earth and uses it's ability to control Fry to command an entire religion which takes over and convinces the inhabitants of Earth to abandon the Earth to live in a pseudo-heaven, leaving the robots of the world to inherit the planet. They Ended Zapp Branigan's (Cough Violently) 'Love Relationship' By Making Him Sleep With Amy When Kiff Dies. Why Kill Kiff Off? The Whole Movie Is Utterly Stupid & Unfunny. Oh Look 10 Minutes Ago I Started Writing This Oh Man It Took Shorter Time To Write The Movie.

demeterpapaioannou1 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.

fedor8 The similarity with the Simpsons movie is that 90 minutes may be too long for a cartoon - even if it's a totally unpredictable, silly one like Futurama. Fortunately, however, the Futurama movie was not misused by the producers to promote their left-wing political views, torturing the viewer with idiotic fallacies and the bad gags that are related to them. Plus, of course, there's no Lisa Simpson, which is always a good thing, and one of several reasons why the Simpsons are basically inferior to Futurama.TBWABB can be considered as an average Futurama episode, quality-wise, which is by no means saying it's bad. While it's true that the premise may be even zanier than what we usually got, a number of gags totally bomb. I certainly didn't find the polygamous Fry girlfriend funny. The secret robot society segments should have been handled much better; there was plenty of potential in that. And as with most superior episodes, there should have been more Bender and Zoidberg, because they're by far the funniest characters (the Professor being a close third).