Movie Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

By Christopher Schimmel

Grade: D | “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” broke out of the college realm and into the eyes of America after a guerilla ad campaign put Boston authorities on high alert. The ad campaign consisted of Lite-Brite boards in the shape of Ignignokt, a character from the show.

Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, the writers of the television series, are the writers behind the group’s break into full-length movies with “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.” The television show is known for not making much sense and the movie definitely does not stray far from this principle. Most of the movie is an incoherent jumble of cartoon mayhem with minimal plot.

According to Dictionary.com, a movie is “a sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.” According to this dictionary, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” created a movie, but only at its most basic form. There are definitely pictures moving rapidly enough to create the illusion of motion, but as far as continuity is concerned, this movie has none.

The gang must try to stop a diabolical work-out machine from taking over the world and destroying humanity. This over-arching plot is broken up by a robot humping an exercise machine and flashbacks to thousands of years ago, which had nothing to do with the already-thin plot.

The three main characters are Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake, and if it takes more than 30 seconds to figure out what each character is, start worrying. Out of the three, the only one that remotely makes any sense is Frylock. He is the “sensible” one of the group, but is still prone to the inability to form a rational thought.

The Web site for the show makes it clear that if a person has to ask what the show is about, then the show is not for that person. So, if the movie does nothing else, it sticks to the philosophy of making entertainment with no point and little creativity.

Following in step with the rest of the movie, there is no real end to the movie, which leaves me with the eerie feeling that they may be deluded enough to make a second movie.

The movie is no doubt designed for a specific group of people, probably in a specific state of mind, and will most likely not resonate with people outside of that fan base.

For everyone else, the movie moves between barely funny, sleep-inducing and completely incomprehensible.