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Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Animation, Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
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?
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy irreverent animated science fiction with absurd cosmic concepts, ensemble banter, and messy romantic complications.
- Tone
- playful, whimsical, darkly comic
- Payoff
- amusement, wonder
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- love, belonging, alienation, cosmic absurdity
- Setting
- near future, spacefaring city and parallel universe