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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

Name: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Genre: Comedy, Action, Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 2007
Cast: Andy Merrill, Bruce Campbell, Craig Hartin, C. Martin Croker, Carey Means

Comedy
Action
Strange

A deliberately absurd action-comedy about three anthropomorphic fast-food items and their apocalyptic conflict over a sentient exercise machine. It's lo-fi animation with maximum chaos, non-sequiturs that land harder than they should, and the kind of humor that either connects instantly or leaves you baffled. For people who love Adult Swim's anarchic sensibility.

TMDb rating

3.3

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy gleefully crude, surreal cartoon absurdity from late-night TV and like your jokes to arrive faster than your sense of logic can object.

Skip it if you want a tidy story or characters who grow, since the gags and crudeness arrive well before any real structure does.

What it asks of you: It sprints through its 86 minutes, swapping gross-out bits, action set-pieces and oddball detours, and expects you to keep up rather than settle in.

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