Sunday, April 15, 2007

"Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie for Theaters" dir. Dave Willis and Matt Maillero

So do i really need to even review this? Most likely no. You're either going to see it cuz you're a fan of the show (like myself and pretty much everyone i know) or you don't give a flying fuck cuz you don't care about the Aqua Teens at all. There really is no middle ground with a movie like this. It pretty much delivers in the way you'd expect-it's an episode of the show that just happens to last for an hour and 15 minutes. There's plenty of great one liners, tons of fantastic insults and cameos from the show's best loved personalities, but beyond that there really isn;t anything. Ben and I both expected it to be a little funnier than it was and we both felt that in some parts it was really really pointless and even, dare i say, not so good. But a day later and i still find myself laughing thinking about Master Shake referring to his pythons or Ogelthorpe building a wall of beer cans as a testament to his ability to drink. Or Master Shake playing some weird Civil War game where he's loading an old school musket saying, "Now that's some good pumping!" It's full of crazy funny shit like that, so if you're a fan of the show you're going to dig it. The reviews are pretty dead on-the best part is undoubetdly the opening of the film, the parody of movie theater ads for snack foods that turns into a ripping thrash metal song courtesy MAstodon with an un-fucking-believeable guitar solo by director Matt Maillero-he's got Brendan Small style guitar skills. See it if you like the show-it'll keep Adult Swim aflat and possibly bring more fine films based on our favorite shows to the theaters. Now-where the fuck is the Futurama movie??

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