Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs (2008)

I was worried after seeing Bender's Big Score. Extremely worried. What's the point of bringing Futurama back from the grave, if it was only going to be a mediocre shell of it's former self? If the second movie followed in the footsteps of the first, I would have preferred that the series would have stayed a fond memory. Thankfully, these dire thoughts didn't turn out to be reality. The Beast with a Billion Backs is good. Still not fantastic, as the original series was, but much better than Bender's Big Score. It did a few things right that BBS absolutely failed at. The story was coherent, the characters seemed much more like themselves, and it was actually funny. I found myself laughing out loud several times during the movie, and that really helped assure me that this wonderful series wasn't reborn only to be buried under crud. If you're a long-term fan of Futurama, I'd recommend that you skip right over Bender's Big Score, and start your re-acquaintance with Futurama with this movie. There's really only one important plot point that carries over from the first movie, and knowing about that isn't worth the disappointment of watching it. In my opinion, Futurama officially re-begins here.