| Friday, April 20, 2007 |
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Hey, all you highbrow animation pundits: you all suck. The Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie beats all y'all's asses.
Now, granted, it's completely and unapologetically incomprehensible to anyone who isn't steeped in the rich tapestry that the show has woven to date; and it's pretty damn bewildering even to those who are. There's little that can be described as a "plot", certainly nothing one ought to bother trying to remember once it's over. But plot has never been the point of ATHF. Oh, it's there, to be sure (which is what distinguishes it from hollow-eyed dreck like 12 oz. Mouse, which a reviewer might legitimately accuse of being made by druggies and for druggies, largely because the creators and/or promoters of it more or less explicitly said so, using the screamingly hackneyed and meaningless cliché "like such-and-such on crack" or "on drugs" that I could easily go the rest of my life never hearing anyone say again). But it's not the point.
The point is the gags, the injokes, the sheer stupid fun of the silly drawings and almost-animation. THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO...
And I've just got to say that the let's-all-go-to-the-lobby prelude vignette thingy is so awesome that it should be played in front of every movie from now on.
Man. $10 hella' well spent.
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Brian Tiemann
