The Venture Bros. movie is a fitting finale for one of TV’s best animated comedies
The Venture Bros. has always been a story about failure. While creators Christopher McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick) and Doc Hammer originally conceived the adult animated comedy as an explicit parody of the sci-fi pulp adventures of Doc Savage and Jonny Quest, they slowly but surely evolved beyond that premise, turning Venture Bros. into the one of the most conceptually ambitious series that’s ever aired on Adult Swim’s nightly programming block. It’s a satire of a generation of men trapped by nostalgia and doomed to fail because of it, but nonetheless growing and maturing in spite of those failures.
It’s only fitting, then, that Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, the feature-length movie that serves as aVenture Bros. finale, emerged from the series’ premature cancellation — and that it still delivers one of the show’s finest adventures to date.
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The film picks up approximately one week after the cliffhanger ending of the show’s seventh season, with Hank Venture (McCulloch) still missing after discovering his brother Dean (Michael Sinterniklaas) in bed with Hank’s girlfriend, Sirena (Cristin Milioti). With Dr. Venture (James Urbaniak) distracted by the impending product launch of his latest make-or-break invention, Dean enlists the aid of Dr. Byron Orpheus (Steven Rattazzi) and the Order
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