Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)

Directed by

Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis

Genre

alternative rock, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 137 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Aqua Teens, three anthropomorphic fast food items, join with aliens and a time-traveling ghost to stop a piece of exercise equipment from causing destruction. Along the way they try to figure out how they were created.

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What happens

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (also known as The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie) is a 2007 American adult animated surreal black comedy film based on the Adult Swim animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The film was produced, written and directed by series creators Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, and features the voices of Dana Snyder, Carey Means, Willis, Maiellaro, Mike Schatz, Andy Merrill, and C. Martin Croker, with Neil Peart of the Canadian rock band Rush, Bruce Campbell, Tina Fey, Fred Armisen, and Chris Kattan in cameo appearances. The film centers around Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, better known as the Aqua Teens, as they join forces with the Plutonians and the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future to prevent a piece of exercise equipment from creating destruction, all while the Aqua Teens must puzzle together their existence and search for their creator. During an interview at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, Maiellaro and Snyder stated that rumors of a feature-length film based on Aqua Teen Hunger Force would be made. Maiellaro would also describe the film as "an action piece that leads into the origin story that unfolds in a very 'Aqua Teen' way." As production went on, several cameos, including Peart, Armisen and Campbell, were confirmed. Adult Swim promoted the film using an extensive guerrilla marketing campaign, which included publishing alternate endings to the film onto the internet, premiering a picture-in-picture version of the movie on television as part of the network’s April Fools’ Day traditions and installing handmade electronic signs in certain cites; a stunt that caused a bomb scare in the city of Boston. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters premiered in New York City on April 10, 2007, and was released theatrically on April 13, 2007, by First Look Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $5.5 million on a $750,000 budget. It marks the first and only time an Adult Swim series was adapted into a feature film theatrically, and is the second Cartoon Network-owned property to receive a theatrical feature film adaptation after The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002), with the difference being due to that film's box office failure, Warner Bros. decided not to distribute this film's theatrical run. Warner Home Video released the film on a two-disc DVD on August 14, 2007. A sequel titled Death Fighter was announced, but was ultimately scrapped in 2015. However, a second Aqua Teen Hunger Force film was officially confirmed by Adult Swim on May 12, 2021. The second film, titled Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm, was released direct-to-video on November 8, 2022, and on HBO Max starting February 8, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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