Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

I remember seeing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie with some friends when it was in theaters and all of us left the movie feeling like our brains had been jumbled up. But, the thing is... that's exactly what a movie based on Aqua Teen Hunger Force should do. It effectively left us feeling like our brains has been molested from what we just saw and there aren't that many movies that can claim that accomplishment (good or bad). For those who've never seen the show, its kind of hard to explain. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a show on Adult Swim starting 3 talking food items that's basically 11 minutes of pure nonsensical chaos loosely tied to paper thin plotlines. The movie, much like the TV series, has some semblance of a plot, but the fun comes from how the story takes several detours, along with side plots that wind up at being dead ends, and by the time the film ends, everything has become even more convoluted than when it started.

The plot of the movie sees Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad trying to assemble some exercise equipment called the Insane-o-Flex that subsequently goes on a rampage which the Aqua Teens attempt to stop (with extra emphasis on "attempt"). As I said the plot gets pretty damn screwy from there. Other characters from the series make appearances like the Mooninites, MC Pee Pants, and the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future. There's a major side plot that involves the origins of the Aqua Teens and of course this just devolves into a total mindfuck. The few times I've watched this on DVD, I was able to see that the movie has a layered sense of humor that I didn't necessarily pick up on the first time around. There are funny situations and jokes fired from every angle, but then there is the absurdest means of plot development. Its intentually confusing, but in its own way it's clever, along with being completely insane.

I can always appreciate what the Aqua Teens are up to, but I as much as I enjoyed this, I can't help but feel that the movie could have been more. About half of the joke of the movie seems to be the fact that the movie even exist in the first place. Also the movie doesn't really attempt to improve its quality in jump to big screen. Adult cartoon series-based movies like Beavis and Butt-Head Do America and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut made incredible efforts to rise above the standards set by their shows, but Aqua Teen is content to deliver the same old same old. Like most tv show based films, the movie drags on a bit (running for the length of about nine 11 minute episodes of the show), but thankfully things pick back up for the completely bizarre grand finale. Its not perfect by any means, but it's a unique film based on a unique TV series, and it mostly gives fans exactly what they would expect.