Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

Family Guy is the most hilarious,non-politically correct, laugh riot. Seth MacFarlane is a genius. I am absolutely thrilled that this DVD set is available. This was the best show on TV, a great tension reliever (although we laugh so hard we cry), and a shame to have been cancelled. Rumor has it, it IS coming back in spring - HOORAY! Peter Griffin, Brian the Dog, and Stewie the homicidal baby genius are a riot. If you are easily offended, or slow to grasp a joke, dont bother. The jokes fly out of the characters one after another, and are hilariously crude. Family Guy easily beats out The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, King of the Hill, and Beavis and Butthead as the very best humorous cartoon. We have both Vol 1 & 2 and watch them constantly. The kids love the goofiness of Peter Griffin, and are often quoting Stewie BLAST! What the deuce? A MUST HAVE COLLECTION!

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.

Im not much of a Family Guy fan, but am a Star Wars fan, so I had to give this a shot. The 3 disc set isnt cheap, and the replay value is average at best, but its pretty high quality. Maybe my favorite quality to these discs is that the filmmakers utilize actual Star Wars sound effects and music, and it sounds great. This is a precursor to the soon-to-be released BluRay Star Wars releases.

Think of the dry cool wit of the Simpsons, combined with the provacative humor of All in the Family, and I think youll have a pretty good idea of Family Guy. There are parts where youll laugh out loud and immediately feel guilty about laughing at the joke. Stewie is by far the utlimate evil genius and closet drag queen, always foiled by Lois, his mother. Brian, the talking dog, seems to provide balance, despite being an alcoholic and recovering cocaine addict. Then of course there is Peter, the dad, who is your stereotypical stupid father and would be strongly compared to Homer Simpson on his worst days. This is perhaps the funniest two and a half seasons of a show that has ever been. However, with this collection you only get the first and second seasons. Adam West as the mayor is a great touch too. I think you can tell that Im a huge fan, since this review is all over the place. Before you sit down and purchase this, it might be a good idea to check out the Family Guy on television, I believe its on one of the Cartoon channels at night sometime. The show isnt for everyone, and some people might be a bit offended by the humor.

I find this series to be absolutely hilarious! I am so glad somebody at Fox got smart, and brought this one back! It is so funny! I like the fact that this is a cartoon, so they can do the completely bizarre side jokes, on a regular basis. It is funny in live action movies, but more creative and hilarious in cartoons. The fact that the same guy does so many voices is also very brilliant. But what differentiates this guy from other shows like The Simpsons, and Eddie Murphy, etc, is it is virtually impossible to tell the difference between his characters voices. I would definitely buy this DVD set, or UMD set, and give it two high hard ones way up! MC White said: Check it out!!!

But it gets even better as it goes on.

To all who consider buying this product....stop considering. Family guy volume 1 is an unbelievable non-stop funny as h411 riot that may cause involuntary urinati0n. The fact that this show was canceled is a sin. I heard that it was canceled because to many Catholic groups are complaining about the inappropriateness. Why? hmmm maybe because Family Guys humor is too close to the TRUTH! Maybe thats why. These religious fanatics and concerned parents are loving living in their little surreal fantasy. Well to all you parents and religious people: Go f yourselves!!! Better yet, go f your sister because thats what gives you jollies! Am I right? Oh yeah Im right.

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.

It seems today that all you see is violence in movies and sex on t.v., especially on Family Guy. It was one of the most extreme television shows in sexual perversion, overt racism, and sacrilege to be allowed to air on prime time. Only an animated series on Fox could get away with its irreverence. It took me a while to muster the courage to buy this DVD set. Occasionally stumbling upon the program in syndication whetted my appetite for its twisted humor. The Rhode Island-based Griffin family is the Simpsons from Hell (or, at least, gone insane) with a talking alcoholic dog, a Machiavellian baby whose ambition is to kill his own doting mother, and an oversexed neighbor whos professed greatest achievement is the number of healthy women to whom hes given VD (no Ned Flanders here). Peter Griffin makes Homer Simpson seem almost stable. The one constant between the two shows is the devoted wife and mother whose unconditional love for her family is baffling. Lois loves her fat, obnoxious, male chauvinistic, perverted oaf and, no matter how mad he often makes her, she ends each episode very happy to be his wife (go figure). If you liked this show during its original broadcasts or are intrigued by the syndicated reruns, this DVD set is really worth the money. It includes all 28 episodes from the first two seasons on 4 discs and has a handful of commentaries, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and Internet promo spots as bonus features. The packaging is also nice with a summary and scene shot for each episode on the back of each case. It is nice to see these episodes released on DVD so quickly (unlike the Simpsons). The menu pages are also very easy to navigate. Commentaries and captions are easy to turn on and off unlike other DVDs I have where they seem to turn on out of nowhere (i.e. King of the Hill). Ive knocked off a star because, like late seasons of the Simpsons, many of the jokes are over-the-top and drag on way past the point where the viewer yells at the t.v., I get it already! The Broadway musical element sometimes added to the shows can be distracting although the lyrics, like the rest of the show, are deliciously warped. And that wicked baby Stewie makes the show. He has some of the best lines ever (this is so good it just has to be fattening). I recommend Family Guy to any fans of animated series like The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, or Futurama who are open-minded and do not mind humor that is not quite so wholesome.

Family Guy fans will enjoy this one, part II of the Star Wars Trilogy, personally I think it is as great as Blue Harvest, and the animation looks pretty sweet, and the jokes are good, some miss the mark put pretty much spot on with many inside jokes from past family Guy episodes, and we get Meg, who plays the swamp monster when Luke and R2D2 land on Dagaba, and Mort as Lando Calrisson, and the Chicken as Boba Fett, and some nice cameo voices from Family Guy favorite James Woods, James Caan, an old clip of Tom Sellick from Magnum PI. Definitely worth checking out on DVD where it hasnt been edited for TV... looking forward to the Final Chapter when they do Jedi, should be as entertaining as the last two, Family Guy is a great show!