Like the cult TV show it's based on, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is a veritable buffet of randomness, 90 minutes in which anything goes and nothing is sacred. You'll either think it's an enormous waste of time or one of the funniest movies you've ever seen. As for me, I'm leaning toward the latter.

A big-screen version of Cartoon Network's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," this little slice of insanity focuses on a trio of bickering, superpowered foodstuffs: Master Shake (voice of Dana Snyder), a perverted milkshake; Meatwad (voice of Dave Willis), an idiotic meatball; and Frylock (voice of Carey Means), a super-intelligent order of fries who rolls his eyes at almost everything his roommates do. What little plot that manages to creep out of the bizarre script involves an "Insanoflex" exercise machine prophesied to bring about the end of the world as we know it. Everyone is after the Insanoflex, including such off-the-wall characters the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past, Dr. Weird, and a pair of eight-bit creatures from the moon. It's not long before the Insanoflex becomes activated and starts destroying the city, leaving it up to Master Shake, Meatwad, and Frylock to put an end to it -- if they (and we) can just figure out what in the world is going on.

My exposure to "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" not having gone past clips my roommate showed me, I really had no clue what to expect from an hour-and-a-half worth of the same screwed-up sense of humor. But now I'm fairly certain those who think the television show is a blast will welcome this film as a dream come true. From a "Let's all go to the lobby" cartoon with a profane twist to its strange knack for inflicting harm upon animated chickens, ATFHCMFT's task is to cook up a gag a second and see how much the viewer can take before saying when.

For me, Aqua Teen ran a little too thin at times and had a couple of dry patches as it scrambled to throw something on the screen. But on the whole, I haven't laughed this hard at a movie since Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, another film where a potty mouth and a tendency to go for the weirdest gags possible only boosted its hilarity. Just imagine if Meet the Robinsons had cranked up its funkiness factor to 11, guzzled a few beers, and spent its childhood with the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. 

Comedies are really hard to pin down, since laughter is such a subjective thing. What's funny to one person may come across about as hilarious as a heart attack to another, and in the case of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, I can't describe precisely what is so funny about it. But if merely thinking of an exercise machine spreading destruction, a flying watermelon containing Rush drummer Neil Peart, and cult hero Bruce Campbell voicing a giant chicken tender causes you to giggle, then this dementedly brilliant animated flick should be right up your alley.

MY RATING: *** (out of ****)

(Released by First Look International and rated "R" for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language.)