Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For The Theaters - Review
Length: 87 min
Rated: R
Distributor: First Look Pictures
Release Date: 2007-04-13
Starring: Larry Blackmon, C. Martin Croker, Matt Maiellaro, Carey Means, Andy Merril, Neail Peart, Mike Schatz, Schooly-D, Dana Snyder, Chris Ward, Dave Willis
Directed by Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis
Produced by Jay Edwards, Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis
The Aqua Teen Hunger Force defies description. It’s animated, but only barely. Calling The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For The Theaters an animated movie would be kind of like calling a wheelbarrow an automobile. The animation is crappy, but on purpose. It’s probably a little more fair to legitimately animated films to label this a cartoon. But it’s not a cartoon for kids. There’s a reason the original television show on which the movie is based airs only late at night on the Cartoon Network, as part of the ass end of their Adult Swim programming block. If your kids are watching ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’, then you’re a bad parent and/or probably stoned.
If you’re stoned, well you’ll fit right in with everyone who shows up to see this movie. To get the most out of it, you need to be really really high. I wasn’t high when I showed up to see Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For The Theaters this afternoon, but I laughed at it anyway. It’s random, weird, and completely bizarre. It’s also funny in spots, assuming you don’t care to figure out what the hell is going on.
To translate the television show into a feature film, they’ve taken the television series, added bombastic Phil Collins music, and made lots of things explode. If you’re a fan of the show, you’ll love the film. If you’re not a fan of the show, loving it may be a bit more difficult. For you newbies out there, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is about three fast food items who have super powers (well at least two of them do) and are roommates. They get on each others nerves, have strange, incomprehensible adventures, and do the sorts of things that non-fast food people usually only do while tripping on acid. Acid by the way, is another drug which might enhance your enjoyment of this film. For legal reasons, we cannot recommend that you take it. Wink. Wink.
Don’t worry about the plot, there isn’t one. Don’t worry about the characters; the characters are made out of cardboard and meat. The movie works wonderfully when taking potshots at pop culture, the movie industry and the theater experience; it doesn’t work so well when it tries to make sense. Luckily, it doesn’t do that very often. If you’ve watched the television show then Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For The Theaters is everything you’d expect it to be. If you haven’t watched the show, then it’s unlikely you’d consider seeing the movie anyway. If ever there was a movie that’s review-proof it’s this one. There’s nothing to review. Just 87 minutes of wild (wholly enjoyable) mental instability.
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I've heard from early reviews that the movie was not even remotely funny, but seeing this review gives me hope. I'm a long-time fan of ATHF, and i hope it's worth seeing.
...and i hope you didn't write this review stoned.
I've been a fan of the show for awhile, and I'm about as straight-laced as they come. I don't even drink! Maybe I'm just mentally unstable. The humor doesn't always work in ATHF, but when it does it's hilarious!
Often when the creators of odd entertainment try to do a big project like this it's a disappointment. Hopefully that won't be the case here.
P.S.: I can see how one might think that fans of this show are stoners, and maybe 80% of them are, but not all of them. The rest of us are just starving for something fresh after suffering through decades of dull single-formula sit-coms, detective shows, and sickeningly sweetened-up, dumbed-down, for-the-masses cartoons/animation.
I am a big fan of the show, and also a fan of being high now and then. But not at the same time. The show is weird/non-linear/surreal enough sober. The combo of d.o.p.e. with ATHF might just blow your mind. And not in the "mind-expanding" way, more in the "he didn't used to sleep under the overpass and smell like that" way. But it's fine if you've had a few cocktails.
Yah the stoner thing is wholly incorrect. Just because something is F-ing nuts and doesn't make a whole lot of sense doesn't mean you have to do drugs to like it. People on Pot like getting kicked in the nuts so I agree with Dave when he says that it is a "insensitive caricaturization of fans of ATHF". However, I'm not offended because that's queer. Watching William's Street since Space Ghost, ATHF is by far the most extreme non traditional show out there (save possibly Saul of the Mole men) and it is fresh. Hopefully America will embrace the genius of low-budget animation and surreal comedy.
If pot is the "gateway" drug, then this movie is the first sign of the Apocalypse. So I say, smoke a bowl and strap in. It's going to be a glorious, bumpy ride.
While I too am not offended by the stoner reference I still feel it was unecessary. Just because you don't get or appreciate this type of humor doesn't mean you need to make up an excuse for it.
And Tim pretty much summed it up... ATHF is simple yet very refreshing. It doesn't matter that the characters are retarded or the animation sucks, the content is brilliant
to truly appreciate the aqua teens, whippits are the only way to go. what about nitrous man? shut up err!
hey Carl, why are your lips blue? never you mind that!
I think I will wear my bad ass red jeans to the premier and score!
Seriously, do we have any scientific polls prooving that everyone who watches ATHF is a stoner? Nope. So why do people get these dumb impressions that it must be the case? I just don't get it.
ATHF is an awsome show and it's a great escape from studying. I can only handle pure logic and technology for so long, at some point it's necesarry to bask in glorious nonsense! (This has been the case for quite a long time for various people.... Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky)
Anyway, while pot or any other drug is not neccessary to enjoy this film, I do find that drugs usually enhance my viewing experience. And while I saw ATHC:MFFT completely sober and loved it, I have a feeling I would have enjoyed it more completely stoned.
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April 5th, 2007 at 16:34
I intend to see this film and I am not a stoner. As such, I'm deeply offended by your insensitive caricaturization of fans of ATHF as 'stoners'.