Thursday, January 20, 2011

Blu-Ray Review: Family Guy Star Wars Trilogy

Hi Folks. Today I will give you my opinions and a review in regard to my recent purchase of the Family Guy Blu-Ray Star Wars Trilogy.

First things first: the packaging. Right now, I am staring at the outer package of this box set, and I can already see how slick and shiny it is, but that's not even the half of it! The front side features Stewie Griffin dressed up a Darth Vader, embossed, and printed in a gloss varnish. The back side features the Griffins dressed up as various Star Wars characters along with the Death Star and a couple of X-Wing fighters. The interior packaging is not as flashy, but does feature four of the characters aboard the Millennium falcon. On top, it has the words, "Look. We Got Four Or Five Of The Main Characters On This Ship.I Think We'll Be Fine."- A line form the second movie, "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", a spoof of "Empire Strikes Back". The back side features the Millennium Falcon being attacked by a couple of Tie Fighters.

The first movie was called "Blue Harvest", and in my opinion, it was the best of the three because it was more true to the original "A New Hope" movie. The movie features the following cast of characters:

Luke Skywalker- Chris Griffin
Owen Lars- Mr. Pewterschmidt
Beru Lars- Mrs. Pewterschmidt
Glen Quagmire- C3PO (!)
Cleveland Brown- R2D2 (!)
Darth Vader- Stewart Griffin (!)
Princess Leia Organa- Lois Griffin (!)
Obi-Wan Kenobi- Herbert (!)
Han Solo- Peter Griffin (!)
Chewbacca- Brian Griffin
Governor Tankin- Adam West
Biggs- Jimmy (!)

...and many others I cannot recall at this time.

One of the things I was disappointed about was the fact they didn't spoof the scene at the end of the original Episode IV where they all get medals for defeating the Empire and destroying the Death Star. The one thing I was most impressed with was the fact they added such pop culture references as National Lampoon's Vacation, Big Red Gum, Redd Fox, Red Buttons, etc. Nonetheless, Blue Harvest makes for great entertainment for the entire family- provided they are 14 years of age or older. Then again, so are all three. I will, however, gives the first movie a 93 out of 100.

The second movie was called "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side".Along with most of the other characters from the first movie, it also featured:

Probe Droid- Jimmy (!)
Don Don- ? (!)
Yoda- Chris? (!)
Lando Calrissian- Some Weirdo Jewish Guy (!)
Boba Fett- Some Stupid Chicken (!!!)

...and many others I cannot recall at this time.

One of the things I was disappointed about was the fact they screwed things up with this sequel! I mean, the humor was nice, but they had a character play a stupid Probe Droid!!?? Come on!!! They could have done better than that!!! I also thought they could have done a whole lot better with the casting of Boba Fett, Yoda, Lando Calrissian, etc! I also think they put too many spoofs and pop culture references into this version of the film, which make it a pretty mediocre at best film. My rating is a 73 out of 100!

The third and final movie, "It's A Trap!"is the film I understand the least!!! They recycled most of the Family Guy characters as well as added some of the characters from the Cleveland Show, and American Dad. At least they could have used some of the original characters in their animated form to fill those roles. I did not care for the weirdo fish bowl playing Admiral Ackbar, or even Pewterschmidt playing the Emperor. I didn't even like the fact they had Chris kill his own brother by snapping his neck. Last time I checked, Darth Vader had his mask taken OFF!!! I was really looking forward to seeing Darth Stewie revealing his charred face to Chris and dying right then and there. The only thing I was impressed about this film was the fact they had even wrapped up the series!!! I give this lame version of "Return Of The Jedi" a 55 out of 100, or a big fat "F"!!!

So, let's check this out- 93, 73, and 55 make 221, divide all that by 3 and you get 73.666%, or a "C". This trilogy is not great, but at least it was okay in my book.


...and that's my movie review for January 20, 2011. I hope to have another episode for you guys next time around. Maybe I'll be talking about something REAL GOOD at that time. Bye for now. folks.

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