Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

Amazing. I’m not super crazy about Family Guy or anything, especially lately, but this is a lot of fun. An entire remake of the original Star Wars trilogy in an animated format using the Family Guy characters and sense of humor? Brilliant! Yeah, there were parts that felt like they were reaching a little bit, but overall a lot of fun. If you have a special Star Wars section in your movie collection, it make a really cool addition even if you don’t like Family Guy. But if you do like Family Guy, enjoy spoof movies, are interested in a fun take on Star Wars, or just generally looking for a few cheap laughs, then this should do the trick.

Better than the Simpsons, better than South Park, Family Guy was a show ahead of its time. Reporetedly, sales of this DVD have been so good, Fox is going to bring back the series. This DVD collection features the following episodes: Death Has a Shadow: Peter is fired from his job after a stag party. Afterwards, the welfare office overpays him in unemployment benefits and he must make amends to both Lois and the government. I Never Met the Dead Man: After crashing the towns satellite, Peter convinces Meg to take the blame for the towns loss of TV. Peter then learns to live without TV, until a trip with William Shatner. Chitty Chitty Death Bang: After screwing up reservations Lois made at Cheesy Charlies, Peter must make arrangements for Stewies first birthday party. Meg learns how to be popular. Mind over Murder: When Peter is forced to drink at home, he builds a bar in the basement to entice his friends over. Lois finds the attention shes starved for by singing at the bar. Zaniness follows. A Hero Sits Next Door: Peter convinces his next door neighbor to play softball at the company picnic, only to discover his neighbor, Joe, is handicapped. Peter is jealous of the attention Joe receives. Zaniness follows. The Son Also Draws: To convince Chriss boyscout troup to let him back in, the family travels to New York. But they lose their car at an Indian Casino where Peter must go on a Spirit Quest. Brian, Portrait of a Dog: Brian is frustrated when Peter treats him like a dog. Brian leaves, and is arrested and sentenced to lethal injection. Its up to Peter to save him. Peter Peter Caviar Eater: Loiss great aunt dies and leaves the family her summer home. Wealth goes to Peters head, and he has to figure a way out. Holy Crap: Peters father, a devout Catholic, comes to live with the family. Peter is unable to bond with his father, and zaniness follows. (Guest appearance by the pope). Da Boom: a Y2K horror story: bombs fly, airplanes drop from the sky, and chickens hand out coupons. Brian in Love: Brian must come to terms with his life after a series of embaressing accidents. After some psychological help, he believes hes in love with Lois. Death is a Bitch: Due to a clerical error, Death comes to take Peter. Death (played by Norm McDonald) breaks his ankle and has to stay off his feet. Peter must become death, and is ordered to kill the kids from Dawsons Creek. The King is Dead: Lois realizes her directing dream when she becomes the director of the Quahog players. But Peters meddling ruins her production of The King and I. I am Peter, Hear me Roar: Peter is forced to go to a feminist camp to get in touch with his feminine side. Lois must bring back the old Peter when he returns. If Im Dyin, Im Lyin: Peter tells the make-a-wish foundation that Chris is dying from a rare disease in order to get a show back on TV. Running Mates: Peter and Lois both run for School Board. Zaniness ensues. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bucks: The family travels to New York when they discover Chris has real talent as a painter. Chris, however, must chose between his father or his painting. Road to Road Island: Brian goes to pick up Stewie from Stewies grandparents. But the two miss their plane and are forced to find a way back home. On the way, Brian confronts his mother. Lets go to the Hop: Licking toads becomes popular at Quahog high school. Peter goes undercover to convince the kids not to do drugs and gets a date to prom with the most popular girl in school. Damnit Janet: Stewie goes to daycare and falls for a girl. But he discovers shes only after his cookies. Lois becomes an airline stewardess, but discovers Peter is using her to take free flights across the globe. Zaniness follows. Hes too Sexy for his Fat: Chris decides to go on a diet after being mistaken for a van. Peter decides to get plastic surgery. E Peterbus Unium: Due to a zoning error, the familys house is not a part of the United States. Peter finds he is not respected at the U.N., so he invades his neighbors house to annex his pool. The family comes under seige from the U.S. Army. The Story on Page One: Meg joins the school newspaper in order to have extra curricular activities for college. But Peter switches her story with a story that Luke Perry is gay. Luke Perry ensues. Wasted Talent: Peter wins the golden ticket to tour the Pautuckett Pat breweries. Lois discovers Peter can win the paino talent show, if hes drunk. Stewie requests Peter play the sad walking away music from the Hulk TV show. Fore, Fathers: Peter tries to teach Chris how to be responsible. He then tries to teach Clevelands son how to play golf. He fails. Some episodes have commentary with Seth McFarlane and various other writers, directors, or actors (Seth himself did the voice of Peter, Brian, Stewie, and Quagmire). The commentary is hilarious, but its only on a few of the episodes. No doubt, this is some of the funniest stuff youll ever see on DVD. If you even remotely like Simpsons, the Critic, or South Park, you should definately pick up this DVD.

purchasing this dvd box set was one of the worst decisions I have ever made. Even as I sat in front of my laptop watching episode after hilarious episode, I could faintly hear the sound of all my ambitions and dreams come tumbling down around me. Within fifty-two hours of the fateful package from Amazon.com arriving in my university mailbox, I had watched all 28 episodes at least once, the eight with commentary twice (once without, once with) and all the special features. thats roughly 14 hours, or ten hours more than I ended up sleeping during that period. If you have anything important to do, I urge you, do not buy this product. However, if you love non-sequiteur, surrealist comedy and you wont be too saddened by, say, flunking genetics, buy this box set. Buy this box set if its the last thing you do.

Best movie series ever. Huge Family Guy and Star Wars fan and this one is absolutely genius. Its like they animated the film side by side with the original. I love the parts when they started to question their actions in the premise of the movie. For example, how come in the Empire Strikes Back they have to fly into the Empire. The planet got a 360 degree escape options and they choose to go with the hardest?

When I first saw ads for the Family Guy, I thought it sounded good - except for Stewie. Just goes to show how wrong I can be! When I watched the show, I discovered its not good - its GREAT! And Stewie? Well, he & Brian are my two favorites. I love the way they play off each other. Which may be why Road to Rhode Island is my favorite episode. (Like a masochist in Newport, were Rhode Island bound! Classic!) Two quibbles. I am so bummed that they cut out the scene where Stewie smuggles weapons past airport security and says Lets hope Osama bin Laden doesnt know show tunes. What a gyp! I havent made it to the very end yet, so maybe its in the deleted scenes. I hope! That bit was hilarious! If not, well, I have my memories. The other quibble is with people that do write ups with no apparent sense of what they are talking about. In the description of Mind Over Murder it says that Meg becomes an acclaimed lounge singer. Hello? On the planet Reality its LOIS that becomes the lounge singer. Gentle griping aside, the Family Guy is the best thing to hit television since, well, since nothing. It is THE best thing - bar none. My husband and I look forward to many, many hours of side-splitting hilarity with our Family Guy dvd set. If you have a decent sense of humor & are not easily offended, its worth a peek! Try it, youll like it! As quickdraw Peter says SHAZAM!

I lost my copy during a divorce, one of the worst things about the split. So happy to have it back in my possession. If you are a Family Guy fan, I have no doubt that you will get a kick out of the movie.

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.

When this series first aired on TV, it was cancelled after a short while and was criticized to be a Simpsons knockoff. And really, there are similarities: The setting is similar, a guy, married, with three kids, living in a suburb, being extraordinarily stupid. Differences: The youngest kid is a criminal genius on his way to world domination, the two older kids are typical underachievers. Oh and they have a talking dog! Just like the Simpsons the show is outrageously hilarious, fantastically funny and absolutely politically uncorrect. You cannot put your finger on just what it is that makes it different from the Simpsons, maybe it is the pace (faster!) of the show, but if you like humour like the Simpsons, it is definitively worth watching.

A consistently hilarious and original series that produced characters every bit as funny and memorable as any in the last 20 years. Comparisons to The Simpsons are inevitable, but where The Simpsons takes sharp jabs at a variety of cultural icons Family Guy beheads them with a guillotine. Many of the jokes are truly unique and no doubt horribly offensive to the sacred cows they are aimed at, but unlike many over-the-top animated series that seek laughs strictly from their ability to annoy, the satire, non-sequiturs and insane plot-twists of Family Guy are spot-on and brilliant. Owning the DVD is especially handy for catching many of the more subtle jokes that often fly by so quickly and mixed with so many subtexts at the same time that a single viewing wont come close to mining all the gems this show has to offer. In fact, the release of this series was my own primary motivation for buying a DVD player in the first place! Im serious, its that good.

I was a little shocked to actually hear the F word come out of the characters mouths- I was expecting a decent amount of bleeps- but was pleasently suprised when there were no bleeps to be heard- no blurs or black boxes (except for one- but I feel it needed to be done)- and I almost peed my pants at the sight of Sgt Scrotes, and the line ......anything with an amputee (youll have to see it to understand). As with any Family Guy episode there are the occassional groaner, but for the most part it stays true to the TV series. After a near death experience, Stewie tries to be a better person as to not end up in hell (his glimpse into his possible eternity of damnation left him frightened for his soul) After giving up on being nice, Stewie happens to catch a glimpse of a man on Television who has an uncanny resemblence to him- so he sets out, with Brian, to find the man who he believes is his REAL father. The movie gives a glimpse into a possible future for the Griffin family, and, as in the TV series, Megs future is the most interesting, and as it always is in the show, the meanest (what do they have against Meg anyway?) For the Hardcore Family Guy fan (those that felt that its first cancellation was a crime to TV, and rushed out to grab a copy of the the first season when they heard it was being released and missed many nights of sleep waiting for the day- yep - like me)- this is a must see, for casual fans of the show- eh- maybe- if you hate the show- just avoid it. Sure, its not a pinnacle in animation- far from it (rememeber, this is a show that pushes the envelope on good taste, its no Beauty and the Beast) I do think it wouldve been fun as a musical (which couldve used a ton of Disney/Classic Musical movie parodies- but still funny)