Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13026 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-08-14
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 86 minutes

Review
What's great about Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is that it never tries to be something it's not. The bizarre Cartoon Network show it's based on is a niche show for a niche audience and the movie caters to exactly that crowd with its usual complete non sequitur jokes, biting stabs at pop culture, and unabashed, unapologetic chaos. To the movie's immense benefit, the producers clearly never try to open the characters up to the mainstream: they look to have approached the project as if they were producing an hour-and-a-half long episode. In fact, the runtime probably presented them with their only challenge, since the show is normally only 15 minutes long. Oddly enough, by making little or no attempt to change the structure of the story (despite it being six times longer than usual), the filmmakers avoid almost all the typical trappings of a small-to-big-screen transition. The things we love about the show are all there: Carl is a slovenly New Jersey stereotype, Master Shake is a pompous idiot, Meatwad is adorably gross, Frylock is the voice of reason, the Mooninites are elitist delinquents, and Dr. Weird is terrifyingly insane. The movie does step it up though, with appearances by Neil Peart of Rush, a time traveling Abraham Lincoln, a new, watermelon-shaped alien, and, of course, a totally inane object serving as a cross-dimensional evil force that threatens to extinguish all life on Earth if our heroes don't intercede (the powerful object is, in this case, an exercise machine). What's particularly funny about the Aqua Teen movie is that it only adds the typical Hollywood-level epic plot twists (mainly through a random subplot about the origin of the Aqua Teens) in order to parody those clich� "I am your father"-type moments. Every time something supposedly important is about to be revealed, it turns out to be silly or hilariously pointless, sure to affect nothing about future episodes of the show. The only place the movie really fails is in that secret hope the fans all had that the producers would inject a little in-joke somewhere to acknowledge the infamous Mooninite-terrorist-scare debacle that took place in Boston in January of 2007, when promotional neon signs of Err and Ignignokt extending their middle fingers were mistaken for bombs. Nothing about the Aqua Teen movie pulls any punches or plays it safe, so we'll just have to assume that sadly, there wasn't time to add a quick wink to the audience on that matter. Thankfully, it's still a fine piece of awesomely stupid cinema. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

On the DVD
Theatrical Trailer
Cahill Trailer (Unearth)
Sizzle Reel
Behind the Scenes
Art/Music Gallery
Jon Schnepp 3D
Dana Snyder/Bob Odenkirk Interview
Fake Endings (x10)
Deleted Scenes
Music Videos
Pete Promos.

Synopsis
Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake team up for their biggest adventure yet in this animated feature that finds the popular Adult Swim trio pursued by an immortal piece of exercise equipment that poses a severe threat to the balance of galactic peace. Despite their best efforts to elude the malevolent body-shaper, the super-sized friends are soon horrified to discover that the Plutonians have joined forces with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to take control of the renegade device in a bid to rule the universe. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Customer Reviews

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I don't know whose bright idea it was to make a full-length "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" movie.

Let's face it, the appeal of the Adult Swim TV show is that it's short and insane, and it's entertaining at one A.M. when your brain is getting punchy. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters For DVD" is rather amusing, but it wears out its welcome with an attempt at a longer, more complex storyline.

After a brief cameo by Mastadon (whom I love), we are shown the Aqua Teens in Egypt, where the levitating fry cup Frylock is killed by a giant dog. Timid Meatwad and sociopathic Shake attempt to have him revived by the Time Lincoln, except that they're being attacked by government agents.

Turns out it was all one of Shake's lies. Annoyed, he goes off to build his Insane-o-Flex, which Frylock discovers is an evil machine that will cause the eventual extinction of the human species. The Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future explains that he has removed a screw to keep it from ever being assembled.

However, the food gang manage to do it. But to finally finish the Insane-o-Flex, they must venture to the laboratory of Dr. Weird -- and soon the Insane-o-flex has not only turned into a giant techno-playing robot, but has spawned a bunch of tiny Insane-o-flexes. Can the madness be stopped?

"Aqua Teen Hunger Force" works because it is ten minutes long, full of crude humor, and has no continuity, logic, or much of a plot. Well, the movie has the lack of logic and the crude humor, but unfortunately it attempts a a bunch of plots that never quite gel, including an "origin" plot that attempts to explain who made the fast-food weirdos and the Mooninites.

And admittedly it works for the first several scenes, which starts off with a crazy little plot that turns out to be a Shake lie, and leads in to the promising "evil exercise machine" storyline. It's the sort of mad, plotless thing you'd expect. But when Carl tells the Aqua Teens to go find Dr. Weird, the story starts stretching itself too thin, and twisting into a strained attempt at an actual plot. The story perks up a bit at the climax (a return to the madness), but overall it just doesn't work.

The characters are as you expect them: Frylock is wise and slightly offbeat, Meatwad is childlike and not too bright, and Shake is nuts and narcissistic. And there are some familiar characters who make cameos, including the Mooninites, Dr. Weird, Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future, Plutonians, and Rush drummer Neil Peart. Oh, never mind.

"Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD" might be amusing if viewers can switch off their brains from one scene to the next. Amusing beginning and end, but a saggy middle.