For the sake of brevity, the full title of this film will not be replicated here. However, the creators of the ATHF movie managed to fit the words movie and film into one sentence, I mean title. It's this kind of nonsense that underlines the very nature of ATHF. An amazing ad campaign led up to its release. I think I actually saw a trailer for it before Spiderman 3. For some reason this shocked me. What shocked me even more was that the entire audience was laughing with the trailer. As a long time ATHF fan, I found it's general acceptance confusing, and in a way, pleasant. However, it was clear that these soccer moms and their children who seemed to be the only people in attendance to Spiderman 3, were in no way familiar with the adult swim show.
What shocked me even more was that the creators of ATHF, a group of distributors and a studio, judging the type of storyline and humor that the show follows, all thought that an ATHF movie would achieve any semblance of success. ATHF's humor seems like it comes directly from a mixture of stand-up comedy and viral video humor. Just the wackiest shit imaginable with the strangest things possible moving from one joke to the next without any regard for the overall theme. You could be in the middle of a cheesy death scene and because the writer's thought of a great fart joke involving different characters, the dying character is either quickly killed off or brought back to life for the sake of the next joke. It's not stream-of-consciuosness, at all, it's just 'how many jokes can we milk out of this scenario.
But the movie... um... what to say. If you like ATHF, you'll like it. If you have never seen ATHF before, you probably won't like it, unless you have a very specific sense of humor. But if you had said sense of humor, you would already know about ATHF... what else... It has an origin story... but in the ATHF scheme of things that means absolutely nothing... It is ridiculously funny if you have the patience for the brand of comedy it delivers. I was trepidatious about seeing it. I have been a fan of the show, but the show is only 15 minutes long. And even then, some of the episodes are just awful and I am left asking why I stayed up late for this, again. The movie is only 120 minutes long and there are so few dead spots, that I hardly noticed the time.
What a terrible review. But that is the nature of ATHF. There are never any clear answers and if you try to analyze it, review it or even just talk about it; you end up not doing it justice and wasting your own time. It's impossible to elaborate upon non-sense.
