Reception
The film was a box-office bomb despite the show's popularity. With twenty-eight reviews compiled, Metacritic reported that Movie Film for Theaters has received "mixed reviews" with an average rating of 54. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a "Rotten" rating of 48% and a consensus stating "The non sequitur humor of Aqua Teen Hunger Force will surely appeal to its built-in fanbase, but for the uninitiated, the premise wears thin." Reviews ranged from Glenn Kenny at Premiere magazine who stated that he was tempted to refer to the movie as "the most successful full-on surrealist film since Buñuel and Dalí's 1930 L'Âge d'Or" to Ty Burr with the Boston Globe who called it "an act of terrorism against entertainment."
In response to such reviews, a commercial featuring the Mooninites began airing during the Adult Swim block. The two characters spend the entire commercial insulting a supposedly typical reviewer, "Lionel" of lionellovesmovies.com (the site merely leads back to the movie page). Other movie commercials recommend people see the movie two or three more times to push the box office numbers up. Adult Swim also mentioned in one of its commercial bumpers that the review situation highlights the generation gap, and that most negative reviews came from much older critics.
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