{"id":7836,"date":"2012-07-21T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:02:01","slug":"aqua-teen-hunger-force-2007-dave-willis-matt-maiellaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7836","title":{"rendered":"Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2007, Dave Willis &#038; Matt Maiellaro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rented this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7833\">Haywire<\/a><\/em> for some mindless comedy and action downtime between complex euro-art films.  <em>Haywire<\/em> brought the action, but <em>Aqua Teen<\/em> sputtered on the comedy.  Should I blame myself for losing my sense of humor, since I always liked the show in the first couple seasons, or did the movie&#8217;s need to cram in familiar characters and plot points and locations, concoct an origin\/creation story, and yet waste enough time on total nonsense to keep from violating the who-gives-a-shit spirit of the show, what was I talking about?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/aquateen.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Jon Benjamin played a cop.<\/p>\n<p>A. Nayman at Cinema Scope compares the summer&#8217;s animated films:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What moron would pay to see something they can see at home for free?&#8221; asks Homer early in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/340\">The Simpsons Movie<\/a><\/em>. Besides reflecting the affectionate disdain (or is it just disdain?) the series&#8217; writers developed for their ever-more-obsessive fanbase, this query is funny because it&#8217;s essentially true. &#8220;Your money is now our money, and we will spend it on drugs,&#8221; shriek the nasty snacks at the beginning of <em>Aqua Teen<\/em>. Equally true, considerably funnier, and fair enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rented this and Haywire for some mindless comedy and action downtime between complex euro-art films. Haywire brought the action, but Aqua Teen sputtered on the comedy. Should I blame myself for losing my sense of humor, since I always liked the show in the first couple seasons, or did the movie&#8217;s need to cram in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,96,684],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-animation","tag-atlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}