Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 5
by Jay Edwards
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Actor: Aqua Teen Hunger ForceDirector: Jay Edwards
Brand: TURNER HM ENTERTAINM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: T1082
Studio: Warner Home Video (INGR)
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- First of all, they're not teens. Secondly, there's no water involved. That whole Hunger Force thing? That's probably misleading, too. In short, if you have to ask what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is about, it is probably not a show for you. The rest of us will go on thrilling to the adventures of Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake as they, you know. hang out.Running Time: 180 min. Format: DVD MOVIE
DVD Reviews of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 5
DVD Review: Pure Evil
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a very long review that's been building up in me for a long time and I was hoping this set would never be released. If you've seen these episodes and loved them, just ignore me and place your order. If you, like me, have grown tired of all the negativity, banality, and just plain EVIL-ness of modern American television, then go ahead and read if you want to...
I am writing this as an owner and huge fan of ATHF Vols. 1 thru 4, just so you know that I'm not just slamming a product because I hate the show or simply have nothing better to do.
When Season 5 was almost ready to start on Cartoon Network last year, I was so incredibly psyched that I made my mother think I was a little insane - she saw me standing up cheering at that weird Meatwad promo commercial while freaky music is playing in the background. But now thanks to season 5, I think I just might have BECOME a little insane.
I understand that thanks to years of ultra-violence being overshown in movies and on late-night TV we've all become almost completely desensitized. People getting shot in the face, decapitated, shot in the knees, disembowelled, shot in the groin, run over, shot in the hands, stabbed, pushed off a building, etc. just doesn't freak us out anymore. So directors started being CUTE about it - the ultra-fast hit-by-a-truck scene in Final Destination, is one example. But a lot of people have caught on to even this, especially college-aged kids nowadays who have fond memories of sittng on Daddy's lap while he played Doom on the computer after work.
So now we have shows that must push the envelope beyond anything ever done before... Some, like Metalocalypse, manage to do it in a way that really doesn't bother me - there's real humor there, plus the violence feels more comical than ghastly, the animation is superb, it reminds me of those cool Iron Maiden album covers from the 1970's, etc. I mention this only to emphasize that I'm not some anti-violence zealot out to trash television shows. So long as it's good and there's a real story, I don't mind violence. It's the 'no hope in sight' culture we have going on nowadays that gets to me - violence and shocking situations used just so nobody has to actually write a STORY. I go into this a little more near the end~
Saying that, there's something...OFF...about the new Aqua Teen cartoons. When I saw the episode where Carl wins a free (and mandatory)'Get Your Penis Cut Off' after he and the Force go shopping at a convenience store, I figured it was just a bad-episode fluke since the creators were busy at the time working hard on "Colon". The episode really bothered me though, for some reason. I know, it's CARL we're talking about, who's basically Archie Bunker with raging hormones, without the hidden 'softer side', and without anyone who loves him... but still.
Then came the episodes that made me really really sick. And I mean PHYSICALLY nauseous amd temporarily depressed. The first of which was about a big long yellow balloon-like dog that Master Shake creates out back in Carl's pool - though it may as well have risen out of the blood pools of HELL. First off, it just LOOKS evil - and it proves his alignment by threatening Carl over the phone, breaking into his house, and anally raping him in a very brutal scene (even though you only see Handbanana (the "dog's" name) through Carl's window from outside). Again, you might say it's CARL that it's happening to - but does that really mean that rape is OK so long as you don't like the person it's happening to?
"Oh lighten up - it's just a cartoon!" I'm sure a lot of violence-desensitive, die-hard fans are saying that right now. Except it's NOT just a cartoon. Anyone who's seen all the other episodes knows this, otherwise you wouldn't CARE what I say about it. To us fans it's become a universe unto itself in our subconsciousnesses - the characters have become real to us in the back of our minds - why d'ya think all those Trekkies (or Star Wars fanatics) keep going to conventions dressed up as Klingons (or Jedis), and it's also why housewives really believe Kirk is secretly having sex with Jeannie on their soap opera and why millions of Americans NEEDED to see Ross and Rachel get back together on the final episode of Friends. It just HAPPENS when you watch (and love) a TV program for a very long time. So yes, bad things have happened to characters in Aqua Teen Hunger Force before - but never quite like this. It really really bothered me. I'm sure that a lot of you will still disagree with me and loved the 5th season episodes, but like I said before - while I was watching them, it felt like something was kind of off or wrong somehow. Could just be bad direting too, though.
The episode that pre-empted my watching the rest of the series was the one where I had to watch Frylock slowly die of cancer. You can tell they really tried to make it disturbing too, the way the fries begin to wither and rot, and THIS I can say with probably no argument: cancer isn't funny. It never was and never will be. South Park went ahead after this aired and put out "Stanley's Cup" which is one of the lowest-rated episodes in the show's history.
I just don't know what the hell they're trying to do or say with ATHF anymore and it feels like every show on Adult Swim is violent and/or sickening in their quest for viewers - farewell, Space Ghost! - but to be fair, like I said in paragraph seven, I stopped watching the episodes after the Frylock death ep so I only saw about half the episodes total. The other episodes were just...there. I don't really remember them so they couldn't have been that bad. They were just overshadowed by the darkness looming from the ones I mentioned. But this set still deserves one star because of the way it basically killed ATHF for me. It'll be a long time before I can watch the other four sets, and I'll never watch another new episode again - ever. I just can't stand what's become of the show.
One last note - I really hope we somehow get back to entertainment without needing to resort to violence to get people to watch - violence is fine if it's PART of the story, just so long as it isn't over-used because there simply IS no story. Carl getting his penis cut off is a good example because that IS the whole story. No creativity is used in that episode whatsoever. Same goes for Frylock having cancer - just wither him away while other characters react - that's it. No story is present in that episode, just the destruction of a character I happen to like. Now, Handbanana may be creative at least, but the violence bothered me so much that I'm pretty sure that this set easily made it into Satan's DVD library.
I used to believe that 'kids these days' were becoming unemotional, uncaring mega-consumers who live minute by minute - demanding to be entertained with quick and shocking bits of video and with as little thinking involved as possible. There's a lot of evidence to support this - and I had neighbors who WERE like this - but I also found out fairly recently that there's also a lot of 'kids these days' who are tired. Tired of being treated like nothing but a consumer of gadgets, tired of being told what music is 'cutting edge' and 'rebellious' by white men in suits sitting around an office all day, and tired of being shown sick GARBAGE like Deal Or No Deal, Boiling Point, My Sweet Sixteen, and season five of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. A lot of them get depressed because, well, I think it's pretty obvious with just what our culture has to offer nowadays, never mind everything else. If THIS is what we're being offered as escapism from day-to-day problems, we're in a lot of trouble.
And so, if you want some great animation that might actually make you feel BETTER and that there actually IS some magic out there, where your dreams don't necessarily have to die like Frylock did in that episode, use your money to get the complete set of Azumanga Daioh and/or the three volumes of a show called Strawberry Marshmallow (it's a poofy name, but an emotionally uplifting show. Both are Japanese and I HIGHLY recommend seeing them that way with the subtitles, but they're also English dubbed, naturally). I have to recommend these shows as strongly as possible in case someone's reading this who feels like I do or understands what I'm trying to say. Watch these and I guarantee you'll get a little more hope back that there IS still magic out there, and that there's emotionally involving stories, characters that come to life (the animated characters feel more real than anyone on Prison Break or Lost or Grey's Anatomy - and I mean that as a fan of two of those three shows!) We used to have magical heartfelt shows in this country - heck, season one of Aqua Teen was one of them! - so hopefully someday the magic will return.
Description of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 5
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 01/29/08
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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