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A suitable analysis for the beginning of my pointless blog would be a movie which is also very pointless, won't you agree? Oddly enough, this film entertained the hell out of me and made me even more attached to the beloved Aqua Teen characters that [adult swim] has provided us with.
The beginning of this film is both beautiful and hilarious, with a "cute" little clip of how to shut the f*** up during a movie and the ATHF theme song complete with new animation that is trippy, yet stunningly animated. Then, we are subjected to Master Shake's version of where the trio originated. This seems to be about the closest the movie gets to actually having a motive, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. The film actually parodies the theme of being "epic" in ways that only the disgusting yet sickly humorous ways of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force can serve us. Many characters (some lovable and some just annoying) from the Aqua Teen series make appearances and are harnessed in their essence directly from the show. Such characters as the Mooninites, the Plutonians Emory and Oglethorpe, and to my delight, MC Pee Pants are included just to name a few.
Aside from Aqua Teen's anti-climatic scheme, it also parodies many other subjects such as fitness, health, living space and leading its audience to believe it will reveal the true origin of Frylock, Master Shake, and Meatwad. Near the end of the film, the audience is thwarted in their efforts to figure out this mystery, as plot twists are thrown at them constantly until we finally realize how ridiculous it is that we're actually wondering where these over-sized morsels of food really came from. In that way, it also mocks the "epic" formula that many movies and TV shows commonly operate with. In this process, it’s easy to get lost in the film's joke of "who created who?" if you're actually looking for a solid answer. But that doesn't mean that we aren't left with one.
I guess I could be considered biased in my opinion about this movie. After all, I am a long-time [adult swim] fan and though my cable is currently going through it’s "too expensive to pay for" phase, I have managed to see the majority of the series thus far. Suffice to say, the film reaches out to one audience, and that audience consists of fans of the show. Since I sit comfortably in my seat at home enjoying Master Shake exaggerate, the many misfortunes of Carl and every dropped object exploding upon impact with the floor, its no surprise that I do the same thing seated in a movie theater. I was greatly pleased with the Aqua Teen movie.
