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Movie Review: ATHF film is great, and if you don't like it, don't watch it
Stephen Greenwell
Issue date: 4/17/07 Section: Entertainment
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04/17/07 - Everyone's favorite group of a milk shake, a box of French fries and a rolling ball of meat have finally hit the cinemas with a profanity-laced journey that is equal parts tedium and hilarity.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters does not drift much from the premise of the television show, but it does prove that surreal humor can be stretched for 86 minutes. There are bumps along the way, but the overall experience is worth $10 at the Providence Place Cinema 16, the only place in the state showing the film.
For those unfamiliar with ATHF, I'll explain the basic premise, although it is unlikely you'll enjoy the movie if you haven't seen any of the show's oddball humor.
The show and the movie both focus on a talking group of food: Master Shake, an arrogant milk shake with questionable intellect; Meatwad, a rolling ball of meat with the mentality of a child; and Frylock, a genius-level box of French fries that can also shoot laser beams from its eyes. Of the three, Frylock is the only one who is remotely functional in society, excluding his BSDM fetish.
The trio rents its house from Carl, a chronic masturbator with no discernable source of income and seemingly no other outfit except for a pair of ratty sweatpants. Supporting characters include the Mooninites, which are pixilated villains from the Moon, and the Plutonians, a pair of green and orange colored aliens from Pluto that are mentally retarded.
As you can imagine, most episodes make no sense, and the movie is no exception. Roughly, the Aqua Teens are trying to stop a dangerous piece of exercise equipment, the Insane-O-Flex, from taking over the world. Side plots include a lost Aqua Teen, a creation story involving a flight into a brick wall, an acoustic CD project entitled Nude Love and Master Shake explaining sex with a chalkboard diagram.
The best part of the movie starts immediately, as the heavy metal band Mastodon satirizes the normal song and dance routine about not talking, done by animated boxes of popcorn and candy. It is hard not to enjoy lyrics like "Don't like it? / Walk out / We still have all your ****ing money."
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters does not drift much from the premise of the television show, but it does prove that surreal humor can be stretched for 86 minutes. There are bumps along the way, but the overall experience is worth $10 at the Providence Place Cinema 16, the only place in the state showing the film.
For those unfamiliar with ATHF, I'll explain the basic premise, although it is unlikely you'll enjoy the movie if you haven't seen any of the show's oddball humor.
The show and the movie both focus on a talking group of food: Master Shake, an arrogant milk shake with questionable intellect; Meatwad, a rolling ball of meat with the mentality of a child; and Frylock, a genius-level box of French fries that can also shoot laser beams from its eyes. Of the three, Frylock is the only one who is remotely functional in society, excluding his BSDM fetish.
The trio rents its house from Carl, a chronic masturbator with no discernable source of income and seemingly no other outfit except for a pair of ratty sweatpants. Supporting characters include the Mooninites, which are pixilated villains from the Moon, and the Plutonians, a pair of green and orange colored aliens from Pluto that are mentally retarded.
As you can imagine, most episodes make no sense, and the movie is no exception. Roughly, the Aqua Teens are trying to stop a dangerous piece of exercise equipment, the Insane-O-Flex, from taking over the world. Side plots include a lost Aqua Teen, a creation story involving a flight into a brick wall, an acoustic CD project entitled Nude Love and Master Shake explaining sex with a chalkboard diagram.
The best part of the movie starts immediately, as the heavy metal band Mastodon satirizes the normal song and dance routine about not talking, done by animated boxes of popcorn and candy. It is hard not to enjoy lyrics like "Don't like it? / Walk out / We still have all your ****ing money."
