Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Dana Snyder | ... | Master Shake (voice) | |
Carey Means | ... | Frylock (voice) | |
Dave Willis | ... | Meatwad / Carl Brutananadilewski / Ignignokt / Video Game Voice (voice) | |
Andy Merrill | ... | Oglethorpe (voice) | |
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Mike Schatz | ... | Emory (voice) |
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Matt Maiellaro | ... | Err / Cybernetic Ghost / Satan (voice) |
C. Martin Croker | ... | Dr. Weird / Steve (voice) | |
Fred Armisen | ... | Time Lincoln (voice) | |
Bruce Campbell | ... | Chicken Bittle (voice) | |
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George Lowe | ... | Space Ghost (voice) |
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Chris Ward | ... | MC Pee Pants (voice) (as mc chris) |
Chris Kattan | ... | Walter Melon (voice) | |
Neil Peart | ... | Self (voice) (as Neil Peart of Rush) | |
Isaac Hayes III | ... | Plantation Owner (voice) | |
Tina Fey | ... | Burrito (voice) |
The story begins in Egypt, where Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad are being attacked by an oversize 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 rocket ship, 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 then explains to Meatwad that women are only attracted to great bodies, then heads off to work out on his new exercise machine, the Insane-O-Flex. Together, they go in search of a missing piece of an exercise machine that happens to be more than an exercise machine, placing them on a collision course with the likes of Oglethorpe and Emory, a pair of jagged, ridiculous creatures from the future who travel with a robot companion claiming to be the Ghost of Christmas Past. They also encounter Dr... Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
Mystery surrounds the roots of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. However when Master Shake steals a piece of exercise equipment from neighbour Carl all this threatens to change with revelations galore. Despite online warnings that the exercise equipment must not be assembled ever, Frylock, Meatwad and Shake set out to do just that, which first involves recovering the missing part from the original owner but, unbeknownst to them they are not the only ones looking for it.
I have not seen a huge amount of Aqua Teen Hunger Force because adult swim is on Bravo in the UK and it just isn't a channel I spend much time on. Normally I only watch it and several other of the adult swim shows when I am in the US, although my interest in Master Shake etc was increased as a result of the MF Doom / Danger Mouse album heavily featuring them the other year. I do enjoy them more than many of the other shows I have seen but I did wonder how it would work in more than small doses. The answer was "pretty well" and the film is pretty true to the weird and wonderful world of ATHF and other adult swim characters and has enough laughs across the running time to make it work.
That the plot is nonsense is not really a surprise and isn't fair to criticise it for this because this is part of the appeal. I hate to use the word but the "craziness" is imaginative and funny throughout the film. The downside is that it is easy to tire of it because whenever you're not laughing for longer than a minute, you do start to wonder what the point of it all is. Fortunately there is enough surreal humour to hold the attention and the range of characters is a bonus. Master Shake, Meatwad, Frylock and Carl are all great but the Mooninites are my favourites. The voice work from Snyder, Means, Willis, Merrill and Maiellaro is all solid and the cameos from Bruce Campbell and Neil Peart were funny.
It isn't a brilliant film of course and if you don't like ATHF then you won't like this but for those that even like it in small doses there is enough here to just about fill the running time. An acquired taste perhaps but it is hard not to enjoy the sheer uncaring weirdness of it all.