5.0 out of 5 stars
Great collection, but compare the price to the individual seasons, May 17 2011
This review is from: Aqua Teen Hunger Force - The First Four Volumes (DVD)
(note) This is a 5 star collection, but is currently selling on Amazon for more than the cost of buying the seasons individually. As long as people support price gouging on sets like this, people will try and get away with it. Moral of the story - before you buy a high priced set, set what buying the elements individually would cost.
For me, this is the perfect set, as I think the first four seasons of ATHF were the strongest. It seems like since then they've been straining a bit to come up with great concepts.
There's no question this is an uneven show. Some episodes don't work at all. But that's more than made up for by those episodes that leave you laughing so hard you cry, while your brian quietly explodes at the insanity of it all.
While this has worn off for me a bit from when I was first enthralled by it's sheer dada-esque insanity, the best
episodes still transcend to inspired levels of bizarre, gross, tweaked humor. When your starting premise is a giant talking
shake, fries, and wad of meat living in New Jersey, how wrong can you go?
As far as my personal ratings, on a scale of 1 to 4...Season 1; `MC Pee Pants', `Love Mummy',
`Dumber Dolls' ***1/2, `Escape from Leprecopolis', `Circus',***1/4 ; `Bus of the Undead', `Ol' Drippy',
`Revenge of the Moonanites', `Dumber Days', `Bad Replicant'***. Remaining 8 episodes **1/2 or **3/4.
Season 2: `Mail Order Bride', `Universal Remonster', `Super Bowl', `Super Squatter', `Super Spore',
`Super Computer' ***1/4. `Super Birthday Snake', `Super Sir Loin', `Meat Zone', `Super Trivia' ***. Remaining 3 **3/4.
Season 3: The Clowning ***3/4, Total Recarl, The Last One ***1/2, Revenge of the Trees, The Cloning, Broodwitch, The Cubing, The Shaving ***1/4, Frat Aliens, The Dressing, Remaining 2 **3/4.
Season 4 `Video Oija',`Dusty Gonzangas', `Hypno Germ' ***1/2, `Unremarkable Voyage', `E-Dork', T-shirt of the Undead', `Spacegate World' ***1/4, `Gee Whiz', `Little Brittle',***, remaining 4 **/34 or **1/2.
If you like strange, gonzo humor (Monty Python would be my generation's touchstone) and/or out-there
adult animation, you owe it to yourself to give this a try -- and give it a couple of episodes to let your head get into what the creators are doing.
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