Beast With A Billion Backs
My overall rating for this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 is an 8. Part of this probably has to do with the fact that I'm a huge Futurama fan. The only criticism I have about it is also a strength. It can be enjoyed on its own. Meaning that I would have liked a more direct historical tie-in with the last feature length film, almost like a previously on Futurama section or something of that nature. Still the episodes don't usually tie together in this way and this allows the movie to be enjoyed without knowledge of the previous film which isn't necessary to enjoy BWABB. I am a huge Bender fan so the fact that Bender sacrifices his first born son to lead a robot army of the damned is probably the funniest thing in this movie to me. As always the classic science fights and math problems in the series do not fall short here. The animation is excellent, well for this series anyway, and we get to see some really cool new Futurama weapons, like the UUM and the planetary annihilators. The game of death ball is introduced and we find out that love with a giant tentacle monster is actually the true path to happiness, well until Bender gives us the end of the movie love speech. Oh yeah one other thing. Leela is a jerk to Fry at the end of the movie, and I was hoping that they would start at least dating at some point.
posted by baceman007 at 7:38 PM
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I agree, Beast With a Billion Backs is pretty awesome. I liked Bender's Big Score a little more, but I'm just a geek for a twisted but logically consistent time travel story. Any time I can diagram a movie with a self-consistent Feynman diagram with closed time-like loops, I get a half-chub.
Aaaanyway. Point of discussion: BWABB has some pretty obvious anti-religious parody. But is it also an anti-love parody? Or is it just me?
I would say more anti-relationship. Colleen is cool but ends up being insatiable. The monster starts out basically raping people, then they date it, then they're going to dump it but don't because it gives them a big ring, then they go over in the ship (so the honeymoon phase) and things are awesome, then it feels betrayed by Fry sending a letter to Bender which essentially allows bender to successfully attack it. Still, at the end there is commentary about what real love is. So Fry and the monster end up in bad relationships where they have their hearts broken and Leela seems to have lost her interest in Fry at the end of the movie, but Bender and Fry have rekindled their friendship, so in a sense, their love for each other.
Interesting point, baceman. So in the end, the love of Fry and Bender rules the day.
Okay, but I don't want anybody thinking we're robo-sexuals!
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