2008 · animation · comedy · sci-fi
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Directed by Peter Avanzino1h 30m2008
Fresh off ripping space-time a new one at the end of "Bender's Big Score," the Planet Express crew is back to mend the tear in reality, or (hopefully) at least not make it worse. Beyond the tear, though, lurks a being of inconceivable...tentacularity. What will become of Earth, and indeed, our universe, when faced with the Beast with a Billion Backs?
Our read: Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- funny
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