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60 of 67 humans found the following review helpful.
Well…I loved it!
By Jesse
After reading a great deal of criticisms from the press and seeing similar reviews on amazon I am conscious that this makes me the minority….but I loved it. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon movie wasn’t supposed to be the next best movie of all time. It was made with underneath a million dollars and wasn’t even a wide release. Everyone expected it to get panned, and we knew all along that this would be a movie rigorously for the fans. And the fans love it!
Everyone in the theater seemed to love it too. The initial 30 minutes are admittedly the best, but people were cracking up finelooking much up until the end. If you like the Aqua Teen Hunger strength show, you ought to like this. It is precisely what you would figure the movie to be: It is structured the same way the shorts are, but with much more content. Actually, when you take one of the seasons on DVD and do the “play all” that’s basically the equivalent of observing this movie. Yeah, there is a plot line consistent through the movie, but that plot line is paper thin. Essentially, you could start out the movie halfway through and wouldn’t feel like you missed anything.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
You either get it or you don’t.
By Rian Bashaw
Look, if you like the show, this is like a marathon. If you didn’t get it in the primary place, then why are you concerned with it? It was made for US. The fans. And the huge majority of us enjoyed it. My girlfriend even laughed a few times, and she had no idea what was going on.
Plus, the Mastodon song in the opening sequence…PRICELESS.
20 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Let’s Be Reasonable People
By Brian Seiler
Those who recognise me recognise I love Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Sometimes. The writers are good at finding things that are amusive that other persons don’t. Sometimes. This series has been the source of assorted ten minute spurts of hilarity that may never be matched in my lifetime. But just some. And that’s genuinely the problem. Even for the initiated, indoctrinated Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan, a few of the shows just don’t click. I think that Hand Banana was hilarious and Grim Reaper Gutters was beauteous astounding and Global Grilling is just ho hum. That’s just this season.
One of the charms of the Adult Swim block on television is that if you don’t like what’s on, it’s totally possible that ten minutes from now, it won’t be any more. If a joke falls flat for these writers on television, it’s a short experience, without apparent effort forgotten by the viewer when he tunes in again and gets a hilarious payoff. In a movie theater, however, that peculiar privilege of their initial format goes away and you’re left with a film that’s up and down and ultimately doesn’t compensate out as much as you might suppose it to.
Now, don’t get me defective – fans of the show ought to buy the movie. The extras are thick and meaty, and the film is at least agreeably diverting sufficient for a person well indoctrinated in the series that it will be more pleasurable than not. For a viewer who’s never heard of this Aqua Teen Hunger Force thing, however, my sincerest counsel is to run as far and as fast as you perhaps can, because you will hate this movie. Not just dislike – hate.
Any time a movie doesn’t even try for huge segments of the audience (the majority, in this case), you have to rate it accordingly, peculiarly given the fact that fans of the show are only going to read these reviews to find something they disagree with and argue when it comes to it. So, yeah – intermediate viewers, think of this three as more of a one and a half with a big fat caution.
Seriously, even though – there were a good deal of finelooking splendid gags. The opening parody reel ought to be shown before each single film freed for the next ten years, because it’s a neat and effective way of expressing what we’re all thinking. After that, however, you get a sort of bumpy ride of chuckles and boredom. I didn’t personally find huge elements of the story to be that satisfying, and the whole thing seemed to me like the writers were straining a little bit.
There is reason for optimism, though. As a backer of the show, I have felt obliged to buy this movie, and if only for the extras and the good parts, I think it was worth the cash I remunerated for it. The film also turned over something like ten times it is budget, so we might be competent to somewhat suppose this sort of treatment for other Adult Swim programming in the future. And, as I hope I’ve beaten into the ground by now, the funny bits are somewhat funny. I just have a hard time with a movie where as a heap of of the gags fall flat as this one.
Bottom Line: this film is ONLY, and I will stress that ONLY part, for the already-established fan. If you’re a new person looking into just what this Aqua Teen Hunger Force is all about, I’d have to commend that you get started with the basi or second season DVDs (I in truth started with the fourth) and see if the show is at all to your liking before you consider picking up this movie.
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