“Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theater” was not Aqua Teen at its best. The problem with “Colon Movie” is that to make a movie, the creators Davis Willis and Matt Maiellaro had to create an actual plot.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force first appeared on Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” in 2000, and the Force immediately became loved by college kids for its short and severely random episodes that consist of no actual plot.
Over the last four seasons, Master Shake (Dana Snyder), Flylock (creator Dave Willis), and Meatwad (Carey Means) have had adventures with leprechauns, terrorizing rabbots (rabbit robots), and even a murderous spider that lives in their attic. Their most famous enemies, the Mooninites, became known when suspicious “Lite-Brite devices” caused terrorism alerts to sound in Boston this past January.
Now, to elevate the hype of Aqua Teen, Willis and Maiellaro have made a full-length feature.
“Colon Movie” began with a satire of a typical movie opening, where talking items from the movie snack-stand sing and dance. Suddenly, the unwanted snack items interrupt the dancing snack foods and gave advice to the audience by screaming over hard rock music. The humor went downhill from there.
Maiellaro and Willis tried to create as many giggles as possible but eventually ran out of jokes and started looking for pity laughs. Instead of being an amusing eight-minute long shenanigan, the movie was an 87-minute headache.
“Colon Movie,” if made into an episode, would have been hilarious. The movie centered on a secret workout machine, the Insanoflex, which turns into a monster that begins to terrorize their town. The twist is that their porn-obsessed neighbor Carl (Davis Willis), is stuck on the side of the Insanoflex. Aqua Teen then finds themselves battling for control of the machine against the evil Plutonians.
New characters were introduced just to squeeze some pointless cameos: Time Lincoln (Fred Armisen), Walter Melon (Chris Kattan), and Chicken Bittle (Bruce Campbell).
After a while, “Colon Movie” turned into a soap opera where more and more ridiculous events pile up. Master Shake, Flylock, and Meatwad eventually end up looking for their parents, going down the parent contestant list for turns into an epic saga that ultimately leaves the audience unsatisfied.
The problem with “Colon Movie” is that nonsensical humor is better in smaller portions. After selling out by making a movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force will never be the same.
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