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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Frank's take)
01/05/2007 . Source: Frank Ochieng 
It's rather challenging in trying to determine the off-kilter appeal of the six-year presence of Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, says Frank. Actually, it shouldn't be difficult to understand why a subversive animated series couldn't capture the twisted allure of selected audiences. After all, we're talking about an extremely wacky and contentious cartoon that owes its flippant foundation to the likes of proven stalwarts The Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, South Park or any other unbalanced entry that dared to be unconventionally wisecracking in its seemingly innocuous skin. Buy Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters in the USA - or Buy Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters in the UK  For what it's worth, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force hasn't done anything uniquely to enhance the genre of tongue-wagging and high-minded cheeky animated fare. Nevertheless, one mustn't dismiss this movie's naughty notions as an intentional barrage of banal-minded chest thumping.
Co-creators/co-directors/co-screenwriters Matt Maiellero and Dave Willis bring their New Jersey-based freakish fast-food friends to the big screen in the devilish Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. Roguishly surrealistic and unorthodox in concept, Maiellero and Willis provide an over-the-top topsy-turvy turn that deems Aqua Teen Hunger Force as wickedly offbeat and infectious. As part of the Cartoon Network's trendy "Adult Swim" umbrella, the bizarre tasty trio of the verbose milkshake Master Shake (Dana Snyder), hip and hostile fries Frylock (Carey Means) and the insipid meatball Meatwad (Dave Willis) are making their celluloid debut. This is a randomly erratic showcase that purposely defies any structural cohesiveness. Perhaps this is one of the reasons as to why the "Aqua Teen" scene has such an avid following and kinetic impact?
Basically, Maiellero and Willis usher in a weird and waffling series of adventurous nonsense stacked with an abundance of supercilious gags and giggles. The helmers behind Aqua Teen Hunger Force lets the peculiar proceedings rip with an undisciplined sense of insanity willing to bask in its array of nonsensical boundaries. Anyone stoned-or maintaining their wits for that matter- certainly will get the munchies watching these tenuous talking treats prance around in unfocused oblivion. Hey, what do you expect from the very same concession stand stooges that caused a panicky prank in Boston due to a publicity campaign gone awry awhile back?
The movie's plot-the supposedly funny main ingredient-is that there is really no plot to speak of in actuality. Maiellero and Willis embrace the absurdity of this frolicking train wreck by tossing out these oddball miscellaneous tidbits and hoping that the wayward madness sticks to the walls. Anything goes in the warped world of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Non sequitur energetic lapses, a parade of irreverent characters, manipulating time warp sequences, infantile jokes, a variety of villainous vermin (an evil-minded alien watermelon and demonic dancing robots for instance), snippets of misplaced rock music inserted for melodic madness-all contribute to the mayhem that playfully exists.
The threesome of edible egos, when not messing around with noxious neighbour Carl, chaotically finds themselves the unlikely heroes of trying to save the universe from a diabolical scientist and other shady associates looking for total global dominance. Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad are pitted in an abyss of goofy verbal gymnastics, boundless action-pack frenzy and sci-fi silliness that's too indescribable to contemplate without scratching one's bewildered head.
As most Aqua Teen Hunger Force fanatics are aware their yummy yucksters have benefited from 10-15 minute vignettes on the aforementioned Cartoon Network where the zany bits were digested in sarcastic spurts. Well, diehard followers of the consuming cads are treated to 79 minutes of loose-ended lunacy entrenched in sheer aimlessness. Tacky, tasteless yet triumphant, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is an orgy of clichéd catty banter bundled up in its built-in craziness for the devoted, indiscriminate fanbase.
Granted that Maiellero and Willis could have beefed up their wandering junk food jockeys in a cinematic setting that could have reached for something more comprehensive in substantial smugness. The pithy presentation is questionably slight given its familiar TV episodic feel that it unwisely embraces for its big screen outing. However, the corruptible spirit is still realized and that's always a noticeable aftertaste that counts for something.
Bottom line: consider the engagingly outlandish Aqua Teen Hunger Force as feisty food for incomprehensible thought.
Frank Ochieng
© Frank Ochieng 2007
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