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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox film Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm: Book VII: The Forest Awakens, marketed simply as Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm, is a 2022 American direct-to-video adult animated surreal black comedy film based on the Adult Swim animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and a stand-alone sequel to the 2007 film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. The film was produced, written, and directed by series creators Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, and features the voices of Dana Snyder, Carey Means, Willis, Maiellaro, Peter Serafinowicz, and Paul Walter Hauser. The film centers around the Aqua Teens reunited as they come into conflict with an evil tech mogul named Neil, who runs the mega-corporation Amazin.

The film is the first of Adult Swim's line of straight-to-video movies, and was released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, and digital platforms on November 8, 2022, and was made available on Max on February 8, 2023. The film aired on Adult Swim on March 19, 2023.

Plot

Шаблон:Long plot The film opens with Shake telling the story of how the Aqua Teens split up. The Aqua Teens and Carl are on some form of space ship. Carl turns into a deformed monstrosity, and he then attacks the Aqua Teens while uttering several phrases from previous episodes. Shake performs several acts of heroics to save Frylock and Meatwad, but he ultimately makes too long a speech and causes all of them to be trapped in the explosion caused by a self-destruct mechanism aboard the ship.

In reality, Shake is living in a homeless shelter and was telling a made-up story about time travel to a space alien (also stuck at the homeless shelter) to try to sound cool. Meatwad is helping round up dogs for an animal shelter, where he is secretly sleeping at night. Frylock is living at an apartment and remembers how Shake sold his computer including his "cure for cancer" on the hard drive, which resulted in Frylock moving out of the Aqua Teen House to work at the IT department of Amazin. Frylock is told by his coworkers about the rumors surrounding their boss, who is reportedly very self-conscious about his short stature. The Llama Dolly (not to be confused with the Dhali Lama) is a tower where Neil the head of Amazin lives. In spite of the rumors, Frylock goes up there to assist his boss who is very frustrated by the fact that his machine isn't actually making him taller. Neil orders Frylock to fix the machine, but Frylock tells him that idea isn't likely to work. Instead, Frylock suggests cloning as a way of making Neil taller.

Neil warms up to Frylock almost immediately, and begins showing him around the Amazin' facility. While touring the fulfillment center, we are introduced to the Fraptaculans and the Japangaloids, two different races of aliens who hate each other. In order to prevent the two races from killing each other, Neil drugs them with what he calls "sub-mist." This sub-mist is a purple mist sprayed from various vents all over the facility. Once inhaled, the mist causes a person to become extremely docile and friendly.

Neil then brings Frylock to the Research and Development department, where he is introduced to Elmer who invented the stretching machine. Elmer is immediately fascinated by Frylock because he is a floating box of french fries but backs off once Frylock stuns him with his eye lasers. Neil invites Frylock to his house for dinner that night, and this makes Elmer jealous as he talks to his plants and feeds them manure. This ends with Frylock being mugged and brutally injured by thugs. Frylock wakes up in an infirmery, but Neil has ordered Elmer to invent a new box for Frylock's body, made of a substance called Brotanium, which pleases Frylock.

Meanwhile, Shake is desperate for a place to sleep, so he comes to Carl, who is interested in cashing in selling his house. Carl has gotten a better outlook on life due to the Aqua Teens moving out of their house, improving the value of his house substantially. Carl lets Shake sleep in a box in his backyard. Meatwad is eventually thrown out of the animal shelter where he was sleeping at night.

Frylock continues hanging out with Neil who shows signs of obsession. When Neil shoots an incredibly rare white tiger in his possession with a gun in an act of power, but Frylock is shocked and shows disapproval, which prompts Neil to beg for forgiveness. Frylock continues testing the cloning procedure with a Fraptaculan test subject, but this is unsuccessful. Frylock says he's certain they're close to correcting this mistake.

Meanwhile, Carl explains to Shake and Meatwad that they've been contracted to show the Amazin' employees the "benefits" of joining a union. This is actually a front by Neil. Carl destroys the cars the Amazin' employees sleep in to convince the employees that union members are hostile. Another group of thugs was hired to threaten the employees' livelihood if they were to join a union. A Japangaloid explains to Meatwad that Neil came to Planet Japanga in the Dolly Llama rocket ship. He pushed the planet closer to the sun, destroying their planet's ecosystem, and then released the sub-mist on them, forcing them to go into permanent work debt to him. The Fraptaculan who was cloned explains about Frylock posing as Phoenix, which agitates Shake. Shake, Meatwad, and Carl return to Carl's house in the daytime, and Carl explains that he'll be watering the house that night. The water causes the seeds in the many Amazin' delivery boxes to grow into killer plants, creating an immediate threat to Shake and Meatwad.

Ignignokt and Err interrupt the movie to "delete the following action sequence." Within the original narrative, Carl explains that the plants have chased Meatwad, Shake, and him to Berlin, Germany and then to Venice, Italy. Meatwad says he wants to contact Frylock via cell phone. Ignignokt and Err delete more of the movie and explain that it didn't advance the plot anyway.

At Amazin', Frylock has finally found a way to make the cloning procedure work with DNA from a giraffe and retired NBA legend Shawn Kemp (who plays himself in live action footage imposed on the animation). Elmer doesn't think the procedure will work. The procedure is technically a success as it clones a tall Neil, but the clone immediately starts fighting with the original Neil. "Big Neil" throws Shawn Kemp out the window, killing him, and Big Neil grabs the original Neil and stuffs him into a box with some help from Elmer. Frylock feels guilty about this mess he's created and drills an "air hole" into the box (which injures the original Neil). Big Neil says Frylock is now in charge of Research & Development while Elmer is the in charge of "suckling [his] dong." Elmer starts to question Big Neil after he betrayed the original Neil, and Frylock receives many texts consisting of emojis from Meatwad.

Meatwad finally gets Frylock on the phone and with a little encouragement from Shake, they tell Frylock to come to Carl's house to help Meatwad under the pretense of Meatwad having "foot cancer" and "Syphilis." Frylock is allowed to leave in a hurry to help Shake, Meatwad, and Carl. Elmer informs Big Neil that they have spied on Shake and Carl, and Elmer formally reveals his plan to conquer the planet with plant monsters, but Big Neil just wants the "broad strokes" of the plan.

Frylock arrives in Neil's limousine, and sees Meatwad, covered in white spray paint by Shake and wearing a wig Carl purchased on Ebay. Shake and Carl reveal themselves. Shake, Carl, and Meatwad inquire to Frylock what the Amazin' boxes are made of, why they were delivered to houses with nobody living in them, and why some of them turned into plant monsters, but Frylock doesn't want to hear it. Frylock says he's tired of Shake and leaves in the limousine.

Meanwhile, the Fraptaculans and Japangaloids have the votes to make the company go union. At a stockholders' meeting, Frylock suggests the sub-mist is bad for PR, but Big Neil releases a ton of sub-mist and fires all the aliens in favor of plant monsters serving Amazin' employees. The seeds to grow the plant monsters were developed from a substance synthesized using Frylock's Jewel of Idahocules. Frylock has had enough of Neil and Elmer, and leaves to rescue Meatwad, Shake, and Carl.

With the Aqua Teens and Carl united, they begin fighting many, many plant monsters, but are overwhelmed by the shear numbers. Carl runs over many of them in 2 Wycked, blasting rock music, and tells the Aqua Teens to get in. They then flee together to "Used Baby Wipe Mountain."

Big Neil is upset and says that "Frylock still works here," but that Elmer is fired. Elmer eats some of the seeds and drinks water, transforming him into Elm a giant tree monster who sicks the plant workers on Neil. Both Neils escape in the Dolly Llama spaceship.

Frylock texts his resignation letter to Neil, but Shake attempts to explain his plan to save the day (which is not actually real). Both Neils track down and find Frylock thanks to tracking cookies. After a "fake out" credits sequence, Meatwad and Carl explain that they can use the Dolly Llama to move the moon to block out the sun. Frylock, however, wants Shake, Meatwad, and Carl to stay on Earth. Frylock leaves with both Neils to execute this plan. Carl decides to make the best of the situation to help save the planet from Amazin'. Carl makes a speech about destroying the planets with his "toxic masculinity," which results in Carl turning 2 Wycked into a plant-destroying monster, and by the end of a training montage (again interrupted by Ignignokt and Err), Carl is incredibly buff and ready to kill plants.

Elm is raising his army of plants to "reclaim the planet." Big Neil can barely pilot the Dolly Llama because the controls are in a tuxedo made for the original Neil, who begs them to let him take control of the spaceship. Ignignokt and Err (within the original narrative) attack the Dolly Llama with a giant mech. It is now that original Neil informs he and Elmer lied about Brotanium, so Frylock cannot take down the Mooninites' mech.

Back on Earth, Carl, Shake, and Meatwad destroy many more plants with blades and poison. The giant Elm finally confronts the trio, but Carl, Shake, and Meatwad each throw their own flaming bottles at Elm, who walks it off with water, which rejuvenates him. The Japangaloids and Fraptaculans take a final stand against Elm and the plants.

Back on the moon, the original Neil finally puts on the tuxedo controls and defeats the Mooninites' mech in a final battle. The 2D Mooninites' mech is knocked over, and thus Ignignokt and Err cry and beg for forgiveness (which is skipped over by the hijacking Ignignokt and Err). The Llama Dolly is then able to finally create an eclipse, which defeats Elm and the plants. Unfortunately, the lack of sun causes an unnatural winter. Both Neils are subdued peacefully when Frylock uses the sub-mist on both of them. They offer Frylock his job back, but Frylock refuses. Carl is freezing and upset about his house being worthless, but the aliens put Carl in a shedded husk of a Fraptaculan filled with Japangaloid slime. The Neils agree to move everything to a new Alabama location but are promptly slaughtered by the aliens. Frylock apologizes and says he's ready to rejoin the Aqua Teens and Carl. Unfortunately, the aliens are all hungry and eat the Aqua Teens, killing them.

The movie ends with a post-credits scene in which Markula feeds Carl the remaining french fries and then drinks the ice cream from Shake's body. As a result, Shake emerges as a vampire bat and yells out, "I smell a sequel!"

Cast

• Dana Snyder as Master Shake
• Carey Means as Frylock
• Dave Willis as Meatwad, Carl and Ignignokt
• Matt Maiellaro as Err and Markula
• Peter Serafinowicz as Neil and Big Neil
• Paul Walter Hauser as Elmer
• Natasha Rothwell as Japongaloid (Japongaloid Natasha)
• Robert Smigel as Fraptaculan (Fraptaculan Robert)
• Tim Robinson as Fraptaculan (Fraptaculan Tim)
• Kyle Kinane as Elric in IT
• Jo Firestone as Felicity in IT
• Lauren Holt as Liz
• Comedian CP as Stretch Instructor and Japongaloid (Japongaloid Chris)
• Blair Socci as Japongaloid (Japongaloid Blair)
• Shawn Kemp as himself
• Lavell Crawford as Street Tough
• John Wilson as Amazin' Board Member
• Jaime Meline as Street Tough
• Killer Mike as Boxy Brown

Production

Development

There has been talk of producing a sequel to Colon Movie Film for Theaters titled Death Fighter. While little has been confirmed by Adult Swim in regards to the film, there have been many statements regarding it. On December 15, 2008, Willis stated no script was written and that the film would be released in Spring 2009 (though, as he also stated that Death Fighter was a T-shirt he was working on, he likely wasn't being serious). Following this, in an April 2009 interview, Willis joked about the film lacking any sort of funding and being sold out of the back of his car.

In a 2010 interview, Radical Axis staff stated Death Fighter was in production, and mentioned the possibility that the film might be made in 3-D. When asked if the film was designed for a theatrical release, a Radical Axis staff member responded yes, but stated: "We're not sure if we have a distributor yet", though this was then followed by the statement that "Adult Swim will never make another movie ever again".

Progress

In 2014, Willis claimed that the script had been completed & approved and that the film would be released sometime in mid-2015, then jokingly stated that the film was shelved as it was not G-rated; however, on April 25, 2015, at a C2CE convention panel, Willis indirectly stated that the project was scrapped, soon after announcing the series' cancellation. He later mentioned on Reddit that it would need a $3.4 million budget, and expressed interest in funding via Kickstarter. He reportedly stated that release could happen within the next two years.

Plantasm

A new film was confirmed to be in production in May 2021, with no further details confirmed aside from it being direct-to-video.

On May 12, 2021, Adult Swim confirmed the production of three new original films, including a new Aqua Teen Hunger Force film to make exclusive debuts on HBO Max following a physical/VOD release. On November 14, 2021, it was announced the film would be released in 2022.

On May 18, 2022, the title was revealed as Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Plantasm. The title was then later changed to Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm in August 2022. Ahead of the film's release in October 2022, rapper Killer Mike was revealed to be the new voice actor for Boxy Brown, who was originally voiced by Willis.

Release

A sneak preview was shown at Adult Swim Festival in August 2022, and the film was confirmed to be released on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD and digital on November 8, 2022.

The film made its streaming premiere on Max on February 8, 2023, and premiered on Adult Swim on March 19, 2023.

Reception

Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm received mostly positive reviews. On the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 100% rating, based on reviews from 5 critics with an average score of 6.80/10.

Series revival

Шаблон:Main articles In a December 2022 interview, Maiellaro revealed that he had begun working on scripts for five new Aqua Teen episodes. A month later in January 2023, a twelfth season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force was announced due to the film's positive reception.

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb title
• Шаблон:Rotten Tomatoes