The Adventures of Hungry

The Adventures of Hungry is a Japanese-American traditionally-animated theatrical buddy-comedy-drama-romance film produced by Bossco Studios. It is also the company's first movie. This film was noted to have an insanely large-scale, cinematic storyline that "perfectly fills its runtime, almost to the point of overflowing."

Plot
After a failed love-life, Hungry Forfude decides that he was destined to be single. This all changes when a homeless sentient hamburger named Hamburger visits him, and offers to take him on an around-the-world flight, in search of true love. Hungry accepts and says he will be paying for everything. What Hamburger doesn't tell him is that he's on the run from two monsters named Sea Monster and Worm.

Hungry and Hamburger are followed onto the flight by these quirky villains, not finding out until much later. In the meantime, Hungry attends numerous speed-dating events and meets a girl named Starving on the second flight (this all happens within a week). They quickly become friends, not yet realizing they were made for each other.

As Hungry continues to pathetically search for love, Starving starts to develop feelings for him, which she later tells Hamburger. After being told this, Hamburger sends Hungry to more speed-dating events, allowing Starving to work up the courage to confess to him when she's ready. This whole thing gets interrupted when Sea Monster and Worm finally decide to execute their plan and kidnap Hamburger. Now, Hungry and Starving must save him!

They are led to Sea Monster and Worm's cabin, where Sea Monster threatens to drop Hamburger out the window. Hungry and Starving forcibly get Sea Monster to put him down. Wonder where Worm is? He snuck into the plane's parts and now they're crash-landing. The battle continues as they all safely evacuate the plane, which is now over the ocean. Worm took an alternative exit, and it is unknown where he ended up. Falling from the sky, Hamburger is able to remove Sea Monster's parachute, thus defeating him once and for all as he plummets to his doom. Still falling, Starving confesses her feelings to Hungry at a bad, yet oddly magical time. They land, and Hungry realizes his true love was right in front of him, all along... Stupid, right?

Crazy Credits
After the final battle, the screen fades to black. The words "Two Years Later" show up on screen. We then cut to Hungry and Starving, who are getting married. And who would be a more appropriate person to marry them than their old pal Hamburger?

In a surprise post-credits scene, we see Worm, who has landed successfully into the ocean. He goes underwater and swims toward a city, with a sign that reads "Atlantis." He simply says to himself, while crying tears of joy, "I'm home."

The Jokes
Most of the comedy in this movie comes from the back-and-forth converstations between Hungry and Hamburger, or the wacky shenanigans that Sea Monster and Worm keep getting themselves into.

Adapted From
The movie is based on a Cartoon Network pilot pitch made by the creator of Soap Opera, which was released 10 years prior to the film's premiere. This pilot episode was a lot simpler than the film it would eventually spawn. For example, it didn't feature the love story or the character Starving at all. It was just Hungry and Hamburger becoming friends, going fishing, and being interrupted by Sea Monster and Worm. The sequels are also based on planned episodes of the show.

Production
The Adventures of Hungry took 4 years to make. A year into production, the film was officially announced at Comic-Con, with a vague teaser trailer. For two years, this was the only evidence we had that the film was happening. In that year, the first trailer was released, followed by a second trailer and a movie clip.

Reception
This film was positively received by users and critics alike. Even after it proved to be highly marketable (because of Hamburger) and earned Bossco Studios a lot of money, the film's director promised that they won't lose their edge or decline in quality for later installments. "We're safe, and Hungry is in good hands."

The most notable review for this movie, featured in the trailers, was "You can't be two movies at once. I believed this for a long time, until I saw 'The Adventures of Hungry.'"

Sequels
A few months after the first movie was released and the hype began to die down, a second and third film were announced. The second one will set up a cinematic universe known as "The Hungryverse" and the third one will be the last in the series, as well as the beginning of a "Darkness Saga."