Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs | 
 enlarge | Director: Peter Avanzino
Actors: Brittany Murphy, Dan Castellaneta, David Cross, Phil Lamarr, Billy West
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  153 reviews
Sales Rank: 1211
Format: Ac-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: FOXD2252093D
UPC: 024543520931
EAN: 0024543520931
ASIN: B00158K0V0
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/24/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 148 more reviews...
 Great Movie, PLUS Best DVD Bonus Item Ever June 19, 2008
Ibex (USA)
40 out of 53 found this review helpful
Having seen an advance copy, unlike some of the other non-reviewers, I can say that the movie is excellent. But I mainly want to point out that the bonus features include the "lost Futurama episode", a full-length 30-minute CGI episode originally produced for the old Futurama video game (never aired on TV, but featuring the actual voice cast and written by the show's original writers). This is also very entertaining, and is undoubtedly the best DVD bonus item in Futurama history. What's with the one-star reviews from people who haven't seen the DVD?
Way Way Way Way better than Benders Big Score June 29, 2008
Charles W. Burdick (Wareham, MA USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Simply hilarious. It featured a baseline of comedy at least as funny as the previous season. punctuated with crescendos of comedy gold that surpass even some of the funniest episodes of the series. Tons of cameos from characters from one shot episodes, and references to previous episodes (Something I feel the series was missing in the past.) I watched it with a friend that didn't like Benders Big Score, and he picked up his own copy of Beast With a Billion Backs at the mall the very next day.
Damn Funny July 3, 2008
Robert Beaver (Behind the Orange Curtain)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a fan and frankly this is no disappointment...Funny and full of sarcasm of the current state of affairs. What more can I say except that my wife, who is not a fan, laughed at the film.
Really quite good June 29, 2008
The Green Mountain Boy (New Hampshire)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Honestly I wasn't really impressed with Bender's Big Score. It perhaps had a lot to do with how big I had built Futurama in my brain, and it failed to meet that expectation. Then, before BWABB came out, I read the reviews here by people claiming to have seen it and claiming it was awful, so I was a bit hesitant to buy it. I'm glad I bought it because BWABB is really quite good. The humor is good, rivaling the best episodes for quality and density (keep a sharp eye out for what happens when Bender is sent hurtling through space after touching the anomaly with his butt). At least one reviewer claimed that most of the characters were written differently, not like they used to be, and even though I was looking for that, I didn't find it to be true. The extras are really cool, it's rare on a DVD for the extras to be so good.
Another Futurama Movie Huzzah June 29, 2008
Jeremy Fein
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
First of all it's great that the second movie is 110% better than the last. Even in audio commentary it was expressed that the time travel was a misteak for a movie idea. The second movie takes place right after the first with a rip into another universe. It introduces us to Yivo (David Cross) as a planet with purple tentacles that wants to mate with earth because he was lonely. There's a great sub plot with Bender joining the League of Robots. And a C plot involving Kiff, Amy and Zapp Brannagin. The features offer audio commentary, the movies from the XBOX and PS2 Game as well as Audio Commentary, a interview with David Cross the set up for the third movie (Which Will have a LOTR's Plot) a live blooper reel and deleted scenes. A must have for all Futurama Fans.
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