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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
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| Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres |
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 Movie poster designed by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo |
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| Directed by | Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis |
| Produced by | Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis Jay Wade Edwards Williams Street |
| Written by | Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis |
| Starring | Dana Snyder Dave Willis Carey Means Andy Merrill Mike Schatz Matt Maiellaro Bruce Campbell mc chris C. Martin Croker Neil Peart Mastodon |
| Distributed by | First Look Pictures Warner Bros. (DVD release) |
| Release date(s) | April 13, 2007 |
| Running time | 87 mins |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $750,000 |
| Gross revenue | $5,520,368 |
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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, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Television for the April Fools Day television premiere, 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. The film's poster was illustrated by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo, and parodies the "King of the Mountain" design.[1]
The film has been rated R by the MPAA for "continuous crude and sexual humor, violent images and language".
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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 the CIA break into his house, the Aqua Teens flee in his wooden rocketship, and Time Lincoln is shot. This, however, is all revealed to be an elaborate story concocted by Shake to explain the ATHF's origin to Meatwad.
Shake 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 assembles it anyway.
The film cuts to outer space. On the Plutonians' ship, Emory and Oglethorpe discover the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future onboard with them. The Cybernetic Ghost 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 the would-be screwhole. Back on Earth, Frylock finishes building the machine, having indeed just shoved a pencil in the hole. 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 has 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, observing the events unfolding according to his plan—the slice is joined in the ship by Neil Peart from Rush, sitting at his drums.
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. After the Aqua Teens argue with Steve, they 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, the robot begins laying large metallic eggs, which 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 other Aqua Teens 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 in order to help fight world hunger, but while parachuting down to the earth Chicken Bittle was eaten by a lion. Their attempts to establish any contact with the natives were met with failure, as they were frightened by the Aqua Teens' appearance. Having failed their mission to fight world hunger, the remaining three Aqua Teens fled Africa and settled in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, Carl and the muscular woman recline 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 was Frylock who created him, not the other way around. Meatwad elaborates on this by saying that Frylock created Dr. Weird but he failed to be a good father figure to him, and as a result Dr. Weird turned out the way he did. Meatwad goes onto claim that Frylock erased his memories of Dr. Weird and replaced them with new ones so that he wouldn't have to live with the shame. Dr. Weird then reveals that the blue diamond on Frylock's back hides a VCR, in which a video with false memories of Dr. Weird creating Frylock had been playing in Frylock's head.
Among the confusion, the watermelon ship lands and as Meatwad points it out, shake suddenly decides to shoot him with a shotgun, inadvertently killing him. The slice inside the ship sees this and has Neil Peart plays a magic drum solo that brings Meatwad back to life. inside identifies himself as Walter Melon and he explains that 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. Walter angrily leaves in the watermelon ship, saying that he's going to tell their mother as he leaves. The Aqua Teens' mother is then revealed as a 9-layer bean burrito. After hearing this news, Master Shake throws himself out of a nearby window, Meatwad goes to hug his new mother, while Frylock just stands there and then simply replies saying "that's neat".
In a scene after the credits, the Cybernetic Ghost is in the living room of the Aqua Teens' humping their television. Frylock, who was revealed earlier in the film to be woman in a man's body, enters, having had breast augmentation and his fries/hair down in ponytails, and says, "Time for bed, honey."
Deleted Scenes (also known as "Star-Studded Xmas Spectacular"), the first 22-minute episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is a collection of deleted scenes from the film. It premiered on December 18, 2005. It was also included in full on the DVD itself. Additionally, early versions of the scenes used in the special can be found in the Deleted Movie on Disc 2.
- Dana Snyder as Master Shake
- Carey Means as Frylock
- Dave Willis as Meatwad/Carl Brutananadilewski/Ignignokt
- Andy Merrill as Oglethorpe
- Mike Schatz as Emory
- Matt Maiellaro as Err/Cybernetic Ghost/Satan
- Fred Armisen as Time Lincoln
- Bruce Campbell as Chicken Bittle
- C. Martin Croker as Dr. Weird/Steve
- George Lowe as Space Ghost
- Chris Ward (mc chris) as MC Pee Pants
- Chris Kattan as Walter Melon
- H. Jon Benjamin as CIA Agent #1
- Tina Fey as Burrito
- Jon Glaser as CIA Agent #2
- Craig Hartin as Rob Goldstein
- Matt Harrigan as Linda
- Larry Blackmon as Himself (deleted scenes)
- Isaac Hayes III as Plantation Owner
- Neil Peart as Himself
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).[2] 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 stated in a Decibel article that they would be performing during the opening, 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.[3]
Regarding the film's rating, Maiellaro commented that "I think if [the movie is rated] 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; the word "shit" is never censored, and while the word "fuck" is usually uncensored it is occasionally accompanied by a censoring beep that does not obscure the word, and is censored once during a flashback.
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. It contains music such as heavy metal, rock, hard rock, and rap.
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.[4]
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.[5] 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 to homeland security. [6]
Adult Swim began running ads on March 25, 2007 advertising the television premiere of the movie the following Sunday, April 1, 2007. 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. The advertising was shown again on one episode of the Family Guy marathon on July 6, 2007. The episode was Peter's Two Dads. 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, and airing entire blocks of programming with mustaches drawn on all the major characters of the shows.
In yet another promotional stunt, the "ending" to the movie was posted in various places including YouTube, KingColon.com (in the Worst Game Ever game), and fansite Aqua Teen Central, all of which were completely different.
Eventually, adultswim.com let it be known that none of the "endings" were real and presented 7 more clips throughout the weeks following the release of the movie (which turned out to also be fake.)
These endings, (now called the "fake.com endings") are available on the film's DVD. These endings are parodies of other movies. For example, one of the endings spoofs The Terminator, featuring Meatwad as "The Determinator".
The film received a 48% 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."[7]
Of 28 reviews compiled, Metacritic reported that Movie Film for Theaters has received "mixed or average reviews" with an average rating of 54%.[8]
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. Adult Swim also mentioned in one of its bumps that the review situation highlights the generation gap, and that most negative reviews came from older critics.
The Aqua Teen Hunger Force fanbase has been fairly positive about the film.
On November 8 it was announced to be one of the 12 finalists in the Best animated feature category in the 80th Oscars.
The film was very profitable relative to its budget. Boxofficemojo.com listed that 877 theaters carried the movie on opening day.[9] 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 its fourth. The movie was closed on June 14, 2007, grossing $5,520,368 according to BoxOfficeMojo.com and turning over its budget seven times.
- After gaining information about the Insanoflex online, the pan-up to the Plutonian ship includes a very fast glimpse of Ballooninstein (featured in the episode of the same name) floating in the air.
- After the Insanoflex is fully constructed and leaves the house, with Carl attached, you can see the Aqua Teens' forgotten housemate Willie Nelson (a carnivorous, onion-spider being) standing in what is left of the attic.
- On the Insanoflex exercise video, as the obese man is running from the Insanoflexes lasers, Dirtfoot (a Bigfoot parody, in the episode of the same name) can be seen in front of a tree, blending in.
- The attendees in the Steel Python roller coaster are animated versions of the cast and crew.
- As the matured Insanoflexes first appear on-screen, to the left you can see a dancing Rabbot.
- When Meatwad transforms into an office building, BillyWitchDoctor.com can be seen in the Steel Python entrance.
- After Meatwad drags the Danger Cart up the mountain the second time, Romulox can be seen on the right when the entire castle is shown.
- When Meatwad launches the missiles at Space Ghost, The show on his TV is the Adult Swim show 12 Oz. Mouse.
- When the Aqua Teens are jumping out of the plane, Meatwad's parachute has pictures of The Powerpuff Girls on it. The Powerpuff Girls Movie was Cartoon Network's (owner of Adult Swim) previous feature film adaptation.
- A picture of Dr. Weird's roommate Randall, whose DNA was spliced with a pork chop in season 2, hangs in Dr. Weird's apartment.
- A picture of Steve busting out of Dr. Weird's chest hangs in Linda's bedroom over the bed.
Warner Home Video released Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for two-disc DVD on August 14, 2007. For the DVD release, the studio changed the title of the eighty-seven minute full length movie to Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres for DVD, just like the film soundtrack's title. The DVD's features include the 10 fake endings as shown on the internet, a "making of" featurette, promos, the "Deleted Scenes" episode, a music video,and an entirely new eighty minute movie made out of the deleted scenes from the film and scenes from the "Deleted Scenes" episode as well as a commentary. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Patti Smith is featured on the DVD Commentary.
- ^ Posterwire.com: King of the Mountain.
- ^ Bruce Campbell As A Chicken Nugget "Fucks!", "Shits!", And "Bleeps" Ahoy!! It's AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: THE MOVIE!!. Ain't It Cool News.
- ^ http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features_detail.aspx?id=4911
- ^ "Two held after ad campaign triggers Boston bomb scare", CNN, 2007-01-31. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ "Pair plead not guilty in Turner advertising fiasco" (Registration required), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2007-02-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ "Turner, contractor to pay $2M in Boston bomb scare", CNN, 2007-02-05. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
- ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters overall consensus on Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters on Metacritic
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule, retrieved on April 8, 2007.
- KingColon.com, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters' official website
- Short Movie Clip at Adult Swim
- OhmyNews International Film Review
- Interview with Matt Maiellaro and Dana Snyder at UGO
- Aqua Teen Looks to Conquer Big Screen at Zap2it.com
- News article at AdultSwim.com
- Decibel Mastodon interview
- Aqua Teen: The Movie @ Aqua Teen Central
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie set for March 2007 release
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters at the Internet Movie Database
- Various Movie Clips on Aqua Teen Central, including the "fake" ending known as "Wonderman."
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters at Rotten Tomatoes
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| Characters | Master Shake • Frylock • Meatwad • Carl • Mooninites • Villains • Others |
| Media | DVDs • Episodes • Colon Movie Film for Theaters (the Soundtrack) • Zombie Ninja Pro-Am • Baffler Meal • Spacecataz |
| Misc. | Actors • 2007 Boston Mooninite scare |
| Cast and Crew | Dave Willis • Matt Maiellaro • Dana Snyder • Carey Means |