Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

Stewie the matricidal child genius rules! Whoever said that Americans dont do comedy has never seen Family Guy. This is humour at its edgiest best. Sacred cows simply do not exist. Anyone or anything is a target. Even Jesus cops a serve! Stewie Griffin, the Untold Story is great theatre. Stewie, the evil offspring of Peter and Lois Griffin of Quahog, Rhode Island is a treat. But one should not lose sight of the other great characters. His father, Peter, is little short of an imbecile while his mother, Lois, is the bane of his existence. Throw in his sister, Meg, his brother, Chris, plus Brian, the familys talking dog and you have a menagerie. Mayhem and fast gags are the order of the day. There are some who may be offended by Family Guys jokes. Too bad! If you dont like the show then dont watch. To all others who can cope with sexual entendre, the slaying of sacred cows and a take no prisoners approach, then this is your programme. My advice to all but the self-righteous and the easily offended is give Family Guy a break. Your patience will be rewarded. Family Guy is the best animated programme to ever hit the small screen!

Well, I am a big fan of Family Guy and they finally released something on Blu-ray to boot. Quality is excellent as far as Blu-rays go, but gave this a 3 out of 5 for these reasons. 1. 1 star taken off for not having a 16 x 9 Animorphic ratio for HDTVs. This is shameful for any Blu-ray out there that does not do this automatically. Instead it is cropped in Pan & Scan format. 2. No uncompressed audio. For those who know, Blu-rays have plenty of room to spare and this was only an hour long video, so nothing should be spared. Instead, it seems like movie companies only wish for our hard earned money and dole out these movies because we are too eager to wonder what the faults are. Other than this, it is hilarious and very funny. Highly recommended laughter.

I watched the Blu Ray last weekend and I thought it was great. Yes, the 4:3 bugged me, but Im sure they started the animation on this a while ago and animation is expensive, so give it a rest already. In fact, I know they did because some of the info in the pop-up video was well over a year old. It really felt longer than an hour, even the second and third times when I watched the pop-up and commentary versions. I loved the feature about recreating the original movie poster, that showed a lot of class on Seth and the Producers parts. Check out the level of detail in the ships, its crazy. I laughed out loud many times, got all the jokes and loved the profanity. A+ Seth! And again with Robot Chicken at the end! Freaking fabulous! I <3 MacFarlane and Green. Cant wait for the next one, and Ill be buying

For those who havent seen this show you are missing out. This is animation at its funniest. All 6 major characters are well thought out and written with gusto. The supporting characters are hilarious once you get familiar with them. It was a shame this show was cut short. Its pretty risque but it pays off bigtime. Stewie the baby is my favorite. He is a baby with a sort of a mad-scientist meets Frasier Crane persona who works that English accent to the utmost levels of extreme snobbiest. The show is politically incorrect so if you are offended by that sort of stuff stay away. My only complaint is that Peter the father is a poor mans Homer Simpson whos predictable antics sometime get a little tiresome. Other than that is high quality DVD with some OK extras and semi interesting commentaries. Bottom Line: Family Guy aint for families but its friggin hilarious. Hopeless ubergeek Simpsons worshippers (myself included) should love this.

I knew I loved FG, I already had these eps in season compilations but they were censored and no way to hear or see otherwise. This ones case AND the DVD inside should have an asterisk - its not uncensored by default, you have to select a separate audio track while playing the movie. I tried setting it BEFORE the movie begins & it goes back to the default CENSORED setting. Maybe newer editions dont do this but this one IS from 2005 so maybe youre better off with a newer copy. 3rd time Ive bought a DVD that wasnt supposed to be censored but was...

Theres nothing really you can say except these are funny AF!

So now we come to Family Guy and their interpretation of The Empire Strikes Back. Its a follow-up to their previous Star Wars effort, Blue Harvest. How does it stack up compared with the first one? Its entertaining, but not quite as much so. Its funny, but not quite as much so. It looks great, and some of the jokes are wonderful, but theres something missing, and Im not sure what. It just didnt blow me away like Blue Harvest did. I did enjoy some of the jokes, especially when its pointed out that the Rebels fleeing Hoth could go in any direction, but charge straight at the enemy fleet anyhow, but other jokes (like one about robot camels), went on a little long and just didnt work. Fortunately one of the great thing about Family Guy is that if you dont like one joke, just wait a few seconds and another will be along. Overall theres just something lacking from the first effort. Its still good, and funnier than the vast majority of entertainment options out there, but its not quite on the same level of Blue Harvest.

I have not yet bought this DVD, but I have seen a whole bunch of the episodes. Just like The Simpsons and South Park, two of the funniest shows ever, it has funny characters and hillarious plots. Seth McFaine can make any situation seem funny, and unlike The Simpsons and South Park, every scene in the episode has something hillarious. I think this is one of the best shows Fox has aired and since they took it off Fox, I am now watching it every night on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The characters are just one reason that this cartoon is one of the best out there. There is Peter Griffin, the beefy, borderline alchoholic, dumb father and husband, Meg Griffin, the drama queen daughter of Peter, who seems like Peters least favorite of them all, Chris, the second image of Peter, Stewie, the talking, evil, baby genious who wants to enslave the human race and kill Peters wife, Lois, who is the most normal of the Griffin family. And we can not forget Brian, the articulate talking dog. This show is one of my favorites, and one of the most random comedy shows of them all. (Thats what makes it so funny) Let me just tell you one thing, if you know how to laugh, youll love this show.

Ill preface this by saying Im NOT a fan of the Family Guy; by which I mean Ive never seen the show, not that I have anything against the show. Just never got around to getting into it, yknow? I am, however, a lifelong, diehard (insert more hyperbole here) fan of Star Wars. Im hoping that anyone whos a fan of both has already purchased this or has seen it, so this review is geared sort of toward my fellow noobs to Family Guy. So, for 20-something bucks, this seemed like a good buy. Some cheap entertainment on Blu-Ray, no less! Well, the picture quality, as many others have said, was not something that justifies a blu-ray treatment. I mean, were not talking Pixar here, guys. Its a cartoon. I got the regular DVD of Archer and it was frankly kinda gorgeous. I was more impressed by the quality of the Archer DVD than I was by the Family Guy Blu-Ray. As far as the box sets treatment of Star Wars, I honestly cant remember a Star Wars scene that was left out of this! It literally tells the whole story of the original Star Wars trilogy in like an hour and a half. With lots of parody, of course. A lot of it is funny. A couple parts made me LOL Out Loud (tip of the hat to Monk... miss ya, man). But a few of the jokes were taken too far (by that, I mean they went on too long). Im told this is kind of common with Family Guy, and maybe its Seth MacFarlanes sense of humor, but some of the jokes went on WAY too long. Like the Obi-Wan character singing the majority of Ive Had the Time of my Life with dancing stormtroopers in the background (gobbling up precious minutes). Without wanting to get into spoilers, there are a few other gags that just drag on and on. If youre a fan of this, then youve got it made. I just found it irksome. One of them was actually really funny, but my smile fell after the gag passed the 45 second mark, or what seemed like it. All in all, though, I WAS entertained by this. The opening crawls were hilarious. I may have peed a little. There is strong language, but my 7 year old (DONT JUDGE ME!! IVE NEVER SEEN THE FAMILY GUY!) barely noticed and enjoyed watching the shows (though I feel so dirty). Thankfully the sexual innuendoes flew RIGHT over her head. But there are those, too. So thats something. :) I also think I would have gotten MORE out of this set if I had any familiarity with the Family Guy characters. Never having seen the show, and seeing as how the Star Wars characters are portrayed by these characters, I think I missed a very important (and presumed) aspect that may have really entertained or charmed someone else. Im emotionally and socially hobbled by my lack of Family Guy familiarity. So theres the disclaimer in long form. :) Bottom line is, hey, its like 20 bucks. If youre a Star Wars fan, itll be very nostalgic and probably asks some of the questions youve been asking for 30 years. Often I said to myself Yeah.. why IS that?? when a character pointed out a glaring inconsistency or error in George Lucas writing/science/sense of reality. It was fun. And it was 20 bucksish. Do consider the DVD version, though. I dont know the price difference, but if its significant, know that the quality difference is not. May the Schwartz be with you all. And no, the Schwartz is not involved in the plot of this film.

Well it has arrived, the second instalment in the Family Guy Star Wars project. Now that I have finally seen it after months of anticiaption I have to say it was good, but it was definitely not what Empire was to New Hope. First and foremost, this second installment was not going to be a surprise like the first one was. Something 3X Darkside was based on the exact same map as Blue Harvest Macfarlane and company stuck true to the origional film using their infamous humor and pop culture references. I will say there were some moments that caused me to laugh a lot so that was a plus. Another plus was the new characters introduced to play the rolls of the new Star Wars characters...yes even Meg makes her triumphant return. Still, there are some flaws here. I think that this new installment could have been a little different. An example would be how Peter tells the story, it didnt have to be another blackout. Also, the end of the episode ends up in another battle between Chris and Peter about Robot Chicken which makes no sense what so ever because Seth MacFarlane has plenty of Roles on Robot Chicken so Ihave no idea why he takes shots at it. Most importantly as a Family Guy fan I am not a fan of the fact that Stewie is an ambiguously gay character. If you want to use that comedy in the show its one thing, but dont bring that persona to Darth Vader. This is a movie that is suppose to be dark and it is really hard to lighten up a chapter such as this. Though all in all I think it was a well done piece of work and I am looking forward to Family Guy: We Have A Bad Feeling About This, I sure hope that thre will be a total of six episode, because I think they will rip Episode 1 to know end which will be pee in your pants hillarious!