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Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs is the second of the Futurama straight to DVD movies. It's to be followed by "Bender's Game", out soon, and "Into the Wild Green Yonder", due for release in 2009. The title refers to the phrase 'the beast with two backs', meaning sexual intercourse, from Shakespeare's "Othello".
The story follows on from the first film, Bender's Big Score. A month has gone by since the universe was ripped open and people are going about their lives as normal. Amy and Kiff have got married and Fry starts going out with a new girl, Colleen, who he later finds out she has multiple boyfriends who all live with her.
At a conference Professor Farnsworth wants to investigate the tear, but so does his nemesis, Wernstrom. Thus, they decide over a game of Deathball. Bender is sent to explore it, but as soon as he touches it a shockwave emanates from the tear, which Farnsworth and Wernstrom (now working together) find out is due to electrical objects being unable to pass through it. They want to try again, but are shot down in favour of a assault led by Zapp Brannigan.
But Fry beats them there, entering the tear because of his relationship breakdown with Colleen. There he meets a giant tentacled alien who uses Fry as a mouthpiece and attacks the earth, sticking his tentacles into everyone's necks. Fry is now the Pope of a religion that worships the tentacles, but it turns out the alien, named Yivo, just wants to date us. So things progress and Yivo asks everyone to move in with him, which means leaving the earth. But, as much as Bender would love that, he can't lose Fry, and so mounts a rescue to bring everyone back!
I'm so glad Futurama is back, it was treated very unfairly by Fox and deserves these straight to DVD films. I just hope there are more than these four to come. As with all Futurama shows/films, the animation is superb, with bright colours, fluid movement and very complex CGI sequences.
This is an all around better film that the first one. The story seems more coherent and it's feels a lot more like a full length feature, rather than a bunch of episodes cobbled together, which the Family Guy movie suffered from. It's a stronger story, and there are more laughs as well, I find myself smiling more with this film, it's more like the Futurama I remember. I guess with the first one they were just getting back into their stride, and now they are very near to their best again!
Overall a very fun film to watch and highly recommended to any Futurama fan. I just hope the next film continues in this trend and is even better than this one! Four stars.
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Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Comedy - Director: Tony Dow - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: John Challis, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gwyneth Strong
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Jan 24th, 2009
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