"Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters" — isn't that a hilarious title?
No, you say? Well, you'd be right.
This animation, built from the wastes of the long-running Adult Swim series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" on the Cartoon Network, falls under the "You've got to be kidding me; this isn't a movie at all" genre.
It's about a floating box of french fries (Frylock); a chatty, dimwitted milkshake (Master Shake); and a rolling, hair-picking-up meatball (Meatwad) who save the world or something like it from assorted cartoon villains.
The joke here is that one of the guys voicing a character sounds a little like the fat kid from "South Park," another sounds like a bad Schwarzenegger impersonator, another like Chris Tucker and one a tiny bit like a cut-rate Lewis Black. They make assorted wisecracks of the drunken frat-boys variety — obscure, not very funny references to "Timecop," Phil Collins and wrestler Chief Wahoo McDaniel.
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Yeah, the odd laugh rises up from the primordial soup of a script. But non sequiturs, malapropisms, characters blurting out random, profane and doltish witticisms in front of generic animated backdrops do not a movie make.
"You have all been created for a very ridiculous purpose," Dr. Weird intones.
If only. To call this "sophomoric" gives sophomores a bad name.
At one point, the alien Insano-flex machine yanks off a leg and beats its brains out, inspiring envy in one and all — including the audience.
This is the movie whose publicists thought it would be cool to hang Mooninite signs (computer-game characters from the show) that look like circuit boards in highly visible spots in America's cities, causing terrorist panic in Boston.
To think we laughed at Boston. Then. They knew a bomb when they saw one.
And to fans of the show, this challenge regarding the movie: See it — sober — before you write in to complain about the review.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
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• Rated: R for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language.
• Voice cast: Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Carey Means, Bruce Campbell.
• Directors: Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro.
• Family call: Not for kids.
• Running time: 86 minutes.
