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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 65 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Animation | Comedy
Written by: Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis (also television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Directed by:
Matt Maiellaro
Dave Willis
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 13, 2007
DVD: August 14, 2007
Running Time: 86 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language
Starring Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Carey Means, Andy Merrill, Mike Schatz, Matt Maiellaro, Fred Armisen, and Bruce Campbell
The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is an action-adventure epic that tackles the mysterious circumstances that brought Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake together. An immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, and it is up to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to run away from it. Complicating matters, the Plutonians team up with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past for ultimate control of the deadly device. (First Look Studios)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Premiere Glenn Kenny
It's the stuff of not quite dreams, and it's rendered with such accuracy and hilarity that I am tempted to call Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters the most successful full-on surrealist film since Bunuel and Dali's 1930 "L'Age d'Or."
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Begins by living up to its fans' rabid expectations, and ends by justifying skeptics' doubts. In between lie roughly equivalent levels of tedium and hilarity.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
In a cinematic landscape where truly original ideas are rarer than floating food, recklessness like this deserves to be appreciated. Not understood, but appreciated.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
It's ragged, and at times it scrapes your comedy ganglia like a cheese grater. But 15 minutes or half an hour is an ideal chunk of time to set aside for truly inspired absurdism.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Offers a diverting package of surreal, rude stoner and pop culture-based humor that will delight youthful viewers while bewildering stray elders.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
At best, it's an inspired piece of free-association pop art held together by sheer momentum, at worst a noisy mess of juvenile nonsense passing itself off as a movie.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
The plot can't be summarized: Let's just say that crazy s--- happens, and occasionally, you laugh.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
To call the animation crude would be high praise. But they succeed enough of the time to make a perversely entertaining movie.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Christy Lemire
Has an even amount of hilarious individual ideas and moments as well as stretches that just seem gratuitously out-there.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
There's nothing here for kids, or, for that matter, anyone who claims to be an adult. But if the title makes perfect sense to you, the movie probably will, too.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Dan DeLuca
It is intended for the target audience of arrested-development stoners who stay up late being thrilled rather than confused by the show's non-sequiturial humor.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
No doubt about it, the show's certifiably bizarro, stream-of-consciousness sensibility has made the transition notably intact, which should please its young male fan base.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
ATHF can seem brilliantly deconstructive one moment and stupefyingly boring the next--or to provide a more accurate ratio, it can follow five brilliant seconds with five straight minutes of boredom.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Difficult to recommend, without first knowing the sobriety of the viewer.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
Narrative's beside the point in a movie created by two guys who gorge on pop culture's high-fat diet and regurgitate it into something approaching . . . art? Close enough.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
A work of either a profoundly transgressive genius or a goofball high on Pez and patio sealant. It could come from no normal collection of brain cells.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
For all its infectious, go-for-broke wackiness ATHFCMFFT never quite surpasses its opening sequence.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
It's nowhere near as funny or incisive as the South Park movies, and it has a much crazier style. Imagine Abraham Lincoln chatting up a giant milkshake and discussing slavery, and you get the picture.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
The pre-credits sequence, featuring a variety of old-school snack treats performing a speed-metal number about courteous movie-theater behavior, is flat-out hilarious and deserves to be played before all R-rated films.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Strictly for cultists, and even they might find less than 90 bongless minutes hard to sit through.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
It gives me no pleasure to report that Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is fairly excruciating to sit through -- because I'm writing this as a fan of the TV series that spawned the movie.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Feels deeply calculated rather than genuinely crazy.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Sam Adams
A little of this junk-drawer fusillade goes a long way.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
Count it as one of the great Hollywood mysteries – right up there with the death of Natalie Wood and the career of Vin Diesel – that we've had to wait this long for a movie starring a talking milkshake, a floating box of french fries, and a ball of ground beef.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Eric Gwinn
The TV episodes invariably embed a character or a bit of dialogue in your brain that you continuously describe or repeat to your friends. No such find in the movie, though the offbeat soundtrack is very gettable.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Tends toward arch silliness more than actual humor, a formula that's tolerable enough in 15-minute tube installments but deadly dull in this 86-minute feature.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Essentially, an act of terrorism against entertainment. It's inconsequential, potty - mouthed, extremely silly, and -- the worst sin of all -- dead boring.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 65 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Armond A. gave it a6:
Here's a rule that I always abide by: two people who agree with one another about films nearly all of the time are quite likely to disagree over comedies quite often and with great vigor. Far be it from me, then, to try to explain WHY I find ATHF to be funny. Moreover, in the case of this particular film, the single score that we're asked to issue is in itself misleading, since it represents an average of TWO scores--perhaps a 9 and a 3--as if an individual critic cannot agree with himself. The reader can picture me watching this cinematic fruit salad and reacting with hoots, howls, grimaces, and indifference. I can say with some certainty that this critique would be less good-natured had I gone to the trouble and expense of seeing the movie in a theater rather than watching it in the more forgiving and receptive state of the couch-potato, Nothing ventured, nothing resented. Perhaps the most important quality in the film is its "modesty", which seems like an odd perception given the frequent references to infantile sexual preoccupations. The modesty is in the film's satirical targets. Unlike South Park, for instance, the "auteurs" stick to making fun of the conventions of popular culture, which is a field in which the young cartoonists are genuine experts. While seemingly "lawless" and "subversive", this superficially "outrageous" collage has its roots in the soil of the old Dick Van Dyke show, Sid Caesar's Show of Shows, and even the equally hit and miss absurdist sketches of Ernie Kovaks and Monty Python. That puts it in some pretty fine company. Know what I mean?? Know what I mean?? Wink-wink!
Simon M. gave it a10:
HAHA! If you saw this in the theater you saw this at home on T.V first, if you were pissed because it was the same thing you got at home' then double HAHA! What did you expect!? Great movie, not enough Carl.
Jamie P gave it a10:
If you are a fan of ATHF, then you will love it and the constant beauty of every word that is spoken and every blast into the past you must endure. It rocks a fans world. If your not a fan and you don't understand, why the hell are you watching it?
B Dub gave it a6:
I am a long term fan of the show. I have to agree with others that this show is probably best left at it's regular 12 minute duration. I couldn't have known this without watching this movie. It is still a must see for any fan of course and i laughed often. I was a little disappointed with the "80 minute deleted movie." It isn't really worth watching. It is a non-finished version of the actual movie. It contains the deleted scenes, but isn't fully animated. Basically all the voice acting put to stills. The deleted movie really shouldn't be marketed as some bonus really.
Alec B. gave it a9:
Not as good as the show but none the less the movie had me laughing my ass off 4 most of the time..
Dylan ! gave it a9:
Its exactly what would be expected. The show is based upon surreal humor. And its not in any way for everyone, you either get a charge out of the humor, or it will seem bland and dumb, but as a movie, it does very well. In some ways it tries to establish structure, and a basic plot, but in such a way that it doesn't bore, and holds together as a "movie". when you think about it, for a show that runs at 15 minutes an episode, a 90 minute film such as this is quite impressive, and it doesn't try to be what its not. It also features the return of various characters from the show, and the introduction of some new, somewhat absurd (in a good way) characters. Its no South Park movie, but unlike the so called "family guy" film, released a year or two back, its a real movie, and not a string of episodes put together. Of course, its aqua teen hunger force, so in some ways thats an under statement. In the end the only thing it lacks is that "epic" feel from what you would expect from a TV to Theater movie. Regardless, it will satisfy the aquateen/adultswim fan base in ways you can only imagine.
Chris B. gave it a2:
Aqua teen hunger force. A force of teens hungering for something solid...I think that's what it means. Something akin to 'Smells like teen spirit'. There's nothing of substance here and the teens are hungering for it. Basically the movie rips on how they perceive life.
