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Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Colon
Movie Film for Theaters
Movie poster designed by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo
Directed byMatt Maiellaro
Dave Willis
Written byMatt Maiellaro
Dave Willis
Produced byMatt Maiellaro
Dave Willis
Jay Wade Edwards
Williams Street
StarringDana Snyder
Dave Willis
Carey Means
Andy Merrill
Mike Schatz
Matt Maiellaro
Bruce Campbell
mc chris
C. Martin Croker
Neil Peart
Mastodon
Distributed byFirst Look Pictures
Warner Bros. (DVD release)
Release datesApril 13, 2007
Running time87 mins
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$750,000
Box office$5,504,000
(As of 5/28/07)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (aka Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD for the DVD release, and abbreviated as ATHFCMFFT or ATHF: MFFT) is an animated film based on the Adult Swim animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The film is written and directed by the show's creators, Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, and was released on April 13, 2007 by First Look Pictures, and has been rated R by the MPAA for "crude and sexual humor, violent images and language". The film's poster was illustrated by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo.

Plot

The movie begins with a song by The Soda Dog Refreshment Squad, in a parody of "Let's all go to the Lobby", only to be interrupted by heavy metal band Mastodon, animated as various concession stand products, who warn the audience that bad movie etiquette will result in severe bodily harm or death to the viewer.

The movie proper begins in Egypt, where Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad are attacked by an oversized poodle, who kills Frylock before being destroyed by Shake. Shake and Meatwad drive off with Frylock's corpse, and meet Time Lincoln, who plans to revive Frylock; however, when government agents break into his house, the Aqua Teens flee in his wooden rocketship, and Time Lincoln is shot. This is all revealed to be an elaborate story concocted by Shake to explain the ATHF's origin to Meatwad. He heads off to work out on his new exercise machine, the Insane-O-Flex. Upon discovering that the machine is not assembled correctly (and the instructions are nowhere to be found), Frylock finds the instructions online, where they read that the machine is actually an immortal device which will bring about mass destruction if assembled. Despite this, Frylock does it anyway.

The film cuts to outer space. On the Plutonians' ship, Emory and Oglethorpe find the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future is there with them, and begins explaining to the two aliens the story of the Insane-O-Flex. The machine, when assembled, will exercise a man into a super-being, who will destroy all of the other men. To prevent this, the Ghost has traveled into the past and stolen a single screw. The Plutonians point out to him that to get it assembled, someone could just buy another screw or shove a pencil in there. Back on Earth, Frylock finishes building the machine, having just shoved a pencil in the screwhole. Before Shake can work out, they discover a missing M-shaped circuit board on the back panel. The trio visit Carl Brutananadilewski, whom Shake had stolen the machine from, to see if he had the missing piece. He informs them that he bought the machine from Dr. Weird. Meanwhile, a triangular slice of watermelon is flying about in a ship made from a hollowed-out watermelon along with Neil Peart from Rush, observing the events unfolding according to his plan.

Dr. Weird and his assistant Steve, whose abandoned insane asylum has been bought and is being turned into condominiums around them, are visited by Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, and after arguing with Steve, retrieve the missing piece and head home. Frylock installs the missing circuit board, but Carl insists that as the rightful owner he should be the first to test out the machine. The machine straps him in and elaborately transforms into a huge one-eyed robot. The robot plays dance/techno music ("I Like Your Booty, But I'm Not Gay") and begins stomping around, crushing houses and heading toward downtown, all while Carl's strapped-in form is forced to exercise. Eventually, it begins laying large metallic eggs, which will hatch into smaller versions of the machine. The Aqua Teens, aided by an instructional workout video, find a way to destroy the machine. Shake plays his original song "Nude Love" on acoustic guitar, forcing the machine to destroy itself. Carl (now bulging with muscles) finds an equally muscular woman, and they head back to her condo while the Aqua Teens try to figure out a way to stop the newly-hatched smaller robots from destroying the city.

Meanwhile, Frylock begins to tell the "real" origin story of the Aqua Teens. They were created by Dr. Weird, along with a chicken nugget who had gone by the name of Chicken Bittle. Chicken Bittle and the rest were created for one purpose, and one purpose only: to crash a jet into a brick wall. Realizing that would hurt, Frylock diverted the jet and they eventually made their way to Africa, but while parachuting down to the earth Chicken Bittle was eaten by a lion. The remaining three fled Africa and settled in New Jersey.

Carl and the muscular woman are in her room, where she reveals herself to be Dr. Weird in disguise. He cuts off Carl's muscles with a hunting knife and grafts them onto his own body. Frylock and Dr. Weird do battle, and the struggle continues while they argue back and forth about who created whom. Dr. Weird claims that it is Frylock who created him, not the other way around. It is revealed that the blue diamond on Frylock's back is a VCR, in which a video with false memories of Dr. Weird creating Frylock had been playing in Frylock's head. Frylock uses his eye beams to slice Dr. Weird in half, but they all still argue about who created whom until Shake shoots Meatwad with a shotgun.

The watermelon ship lands, and the slice inside identifies himself as Walter Melon. Neil Peart plays a magic drum solo that brings Meatwad back to life. Melon explains he created the Aqua Teens, The Mooninites, and all the other characters so that they would eventually kill each other, after which Walter would inherit all their real estate in order to create "The Insane-O-Gym". The other characters inform a disappointed Walter that they all rent and do not own any property. The Aqua Teens' mother is revealed as a 9-layer bean burrito.

Deleted Scenes

See also: Deleted Scenes (Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode)

The first 22-minute episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is said to be a collection of deleted scenes from the film. All of the deleted scenes combine to form one normal 11-minute episode, so it is unknown if they are actually deleted scenes, an episode used to promote the film, or a combination of the two. Some of the deleted scenes do follow the plot of the movie, though none are actually in it. It should be noted that the animation in the "deleted scenes" is much sharper and certain characters (i.e. Meatwad's dolls Dewey, Vanessa and Boxy Brown) are drawn with much more detail and Carl animates more rather than standing around with his hands on his hips. This suggests a higher budget and is a typical change made to movies based on cartoons. The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future also has a deeper, much more distorted voice matching his voice in the film.

It is confirmed that the scenes will be used for an alternate movie featured in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD.

Cast

Production

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The film's logo seen in the trailer.

In an interview at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, Dana Snyder and Matt Maiellaro confirmed rumors that there would be a feature-length movie of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. More details were revealed at the 2005 Paley Television Festival, such as a possible cameo by 80s funk group Cameo, and Maiellaro described it as "an action piece that leads into an origin story that unfolds in a very 'Aqua Teen' way."

The creators revealed much more information in an interview with Wizard Entertainment. While they dodged many questions, they confirmed that the movie would run 80 minutes, was filmed on a meager $750,000 budget, and features a plot detail about a "lost Aqua Teen", who is a large chicken nugget named "Chicken Bittle" (voiced by Bruce Campbell). They also confirmed more cameos, with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, H. Jon Benjamin from Home Movies and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, filmmaker Jon Glaser, and SNL's Fred Armisen to make appearances. Heavy metal band Mastodon have stated in a recent Decibel article that they are performing the opening music, and that the band would be animated as a bucket of popcorn, a soda, a hot dog, and a candy bar. They were actually animated as a pretzel, nacho, ice caps box, and a gumdrop.

On the matter of the film's rating, which plays a large part in how loyal the film will be to the show, Maiellaro commented that "I think if R, it won't get the audience that watches it. But we don't know yet. We're still waiting to find out." Since then, the trailer released has advertised the film as rated R. The movie is mostly uncensored, as "fuck" and "shit" are uttered a few times. The word fuck is partially censored on a few occasions (a "beep" sound is played over the word, but not at a volume high enough to obscure it), but most of the cursing is played as spoken, even fuck, which is not censored every time it is spoken."Fuck" is only entirely bleeped once during a flashback scene where Dr. Weird says "fuck it."

Soundtrack

Main article: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack, which features skits and sound bites from the movie as well as original recordings from other artists, was released on April 10, 2007.

Marketing

Boston ad campaign scare

Main article: 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare

On January 31, 2007, police in Boston, Massachusetts received reports of devices resembling bombs in various places around the city. The devices turned out to be electronic signs similar to a Lite-Brite that displayed images of the Mooninites Ignignokt and Err giving the finger, and were designed to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force television show as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign authorized by Cartoon Network, the cartoon's parent company. The boards were present in several cities for weeks before the ones in Boston were reported.

The Boston City Government sought a reimbursement for the money spent responding to the incident. The amount quoted was $500,000 initially, and then was increased to $750,000. On February 5 it was announced that Turner Broadcasting and the city of Boston have reached an agreement to pay $2 million to offset the cost of removing the devices: $1 million to cover the cost of the agencies involved and an additional $1 million in goodwill funding.

April Fools Day television "premiere"

Adult Swim began running ads on March 25, 2007 advertising the television premiere of the movie the following Sunday, April 1. Their only reasoning behind this stunt, as stated in the ad, was, "because we're fucking crazy". While Adult Swim's TV listings on their website stated the movie would be shown, other TV listings reported the same Sunday block. It was an April Fools prank: though the first few minutes of the movie were shown normally, the remainder was shown in a tiny picture in picture box in the bottom left-hand corner, with no sound over the normal programming and occasional giant popups alerting viewers of its presence, as well as advertising the actual premiere. Adult Swim has made similar pranks during its run, including placing fart sounds intercut with anime shows and using Engrish VHS fansubs for the first season of Perfect Hair Forever.

Fake.com endings

In a promotional stunt, the movie's official website offers what was preported to be the movie's ending by beating what the site calls "The Worst Game Ever". It is actually a series of false endings for the movie, called "fake.com endings" on the movie's DVD. These endings are parodies of other movies. For example, one of the endings spoofs The Terminator, featuring Meatwad as "The Determinator".

Release

Reception

So far, the film has a 49% Rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the consensus being, "The non sequitur humor of Aqua Teen Hunger Force will surely appeal to its built-in fan base, but for the uninitiated, the premise wears thin."

Of 27 reviews compiled on April 13, 2007, Metacritic reports that Movie Film for Theaters has received "mixed or average reviews" with an average rating of 53%.

In response to such reviews, a commercial featuring the Mooninites began airing during the Adult Swim block. The two characters spend the entire commercial insulting a supposedly typical reviewer, "Lionel" of http://www.lionellovesmovies.com (the site merely leads back to the movie page). Other movie commercials recommend people see the movie two or three more times to push the box office numbers up.

Box office and theaters

Boxofficemojo.com listed that 877 theaters carried the movie on opening day. The movie made $3 million dollars outside the top 10 at No. 13 on its opening weekend, The movie made $854,198 on its second weekend, $265,716 on its third, and $37,575 on it's fourth. According to Boxofficemojo.com, as of May 11th, 2007, the movie has made an estimated $5,431,812. While it is a relatively small amount, it has managed to turn over its budget seven times and brought Cartoon Network's payments to Boston.

Canadian distribution

Unlike most American films receiving a wide US theatrical release, the movie was not rolled out in Canada simultaneously. A representative of First Look said in an interview that Canadian theatrical distribution was being considered, but would depend largely on how the film fared at the US box office. As the film has only drawn approximately $5 million after it's first few weeks in release, and no further announcements on this issue have been made, the possibility of a Canadian theatrical release before the DVD comes out lessens by the week. The DVD will be released in Canada on August 14, 2007.

DVD Release

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DVD cover art.

Warner Home Video will release Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD, a two-disc set, on August 14, 2007. The DVD will sell for $19.98.

DVD Features
  • Fake.com Endings
  • Round Table Discussion - Making of the Movie
  • Promos
  • Bonus Episode: Deleted Scenes "Star-Studded Christmas Spectacular Starring Ron Gheremi"
  • Music Video
  • An entirely new movie made out of the deleted scenes
  • Behind-the-scenes / Making of the Music Videos for the movie
Technical Specs
  • Rating: R
  • No. of Discs: 2
  • CC: Yes
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English SDH

See also

References

  1. "Posterwire.com: King of the Mountain".
  2. "Bruce Campbell As A Chicken Nugget "Fucks!", "Shits!", And "Bleeps" Ahoy!! It's AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: THE MOVIE!!". Ain't It Cool News.
  3. http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features_detail.aspx?id=4911
  4. "Two held after ad campaign triggers Boston bomb scare". CNN. 2007-01-31. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
  5. "Pair plead not guilty in Turner advertising fiasco" (Registration required). Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2007-02-01. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
  6. "Turner, contractor to pay $2M in Boston bomb scare". CNN. 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
  7. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters overall consensus on Rotten Tomatoes
  8. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters on Metacritic
  9. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule, retrieved on April 8, 2007.
  10. Toronto Star. March 30, 2007

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