Product Description

The Force is strong with this episode of FAMILY GUY that devotes an entire hour to STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE. Seth McFarlane s spoof-happy animated sitcom casts the Griffin family and other Quahog residents as characters from George Lucas s sci-fi classic: patriarch Peter is Han Solo wife Lois is Princess Leia son Chris is Luke Skywalker family dog Brian is Chewbacca and baby Stewie continues his quest to kill Lois as the evil Darth Vader. From Mos Eisley to the Millennium Falcon no element of Lucas s beloved universe is safe from McFarlane s hilarious satire. FAMILY GUY PRESENTS BLUE HARVEST includes four minutes of new material and interviews with MacFarlane and the Jedi Master himself Lucas.System Requirements:Running Time: 48 mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543496861 Manufacturer No: 2249686

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #497 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2008-01-15
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 48 minutes

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What better way to launch Family Guy's sixth season and commemorate Star Wars' 30th anniversary than with this double-length Very Special Episode, a full-scale, awesomely animated spoof that recasts George Lucas' saga with Family Guy's galaxy of characters: Chris (Seth Green) is Luke; Lois (Alex Borstein) is Princess Leia; Peter (Seth McFarlane) is Han Solo, but not, as expected, Jabba the Hut; Brian (Seth, again) is Chewbacca; Quagmire (and again, Seth) is C3PO; Cleveland is R2D2; Herbert, the creepy senior pedophile, is Obi-Wan (both voiced by Mike Henry); and, of course, Stewie (Seth, already) is Darth Vader ("My diapers have gone over to the dark side"). Poor Meg is reduced to a cameo as the hideous reptilian creature that haunts the garbage compactor. Blue Harvest is reverently faithful to A New Hope, while engaging in typical Family Guy pop-culture references (everything from those old Grey Poupon commercials to Doctor Who, Airplane, Dirty Dancing, and Deal or No Deal) and bizarre digressions (the iconic opening crawl detours into an appreciation of a "way naked" Angelina Jolie in Gia). Along for the wild ride are Judd Nelson, who contributes a voice cameo as John Bender for a Breakfast Club gag, Rush Limbaugh railing against futuristic affirmative action on Tatooine talk radio, and Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase as the vacationing Griswolds observing the rebellion from their orbiting station wagon. A Star Wars spoof in 2007 isn't exactly uncharted territory. As Chris Griffin notes in this episode's final moments, Robot Chicken brilliantly did it months earlier (and let us not forget Mel Brooks' Spaceballs from 1987; or, on second thought...). But the Force is strong with Family Guy, and who could resist the opportunity to hear the Muzak playing in a Death Star elevator? --Donald Liebenson

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Customer Reviews

One of the Best Star Wars Parodies
Family Guy itself is hit or miss with me. Some of the shows are funny, others not so much. However, this is definitely the funniest Family Guy I've ever seen. Of course it helps to be a fan of the original Star Wars. If you are not familiar with Star Wars, most of this movie will be lost on you. However if you are a fan of Star Wars, see this movie, even if you don't normally like Family Guy.

One of the Funniest Things I Have Ever Seen
I was laughing so hard when I caught this on TV that I immediately set about to buy it on DVD no matter what.

Not only does it spoof Star Wars in a way never done before, it also crams in a ton of other movie references and in-jokes, and some of the shot-by-shot re-creations are so spot-on you wonder if they just scanned the original one and animated it.

Absolutely hilarious, raunchy and absurd. We still talk out scenes from this. Only about 40 minutes, but they get a LOT of laughs out of it.

The DVD extra interview with Lucas is good fun too.

Family Guy - Blue Harvest (Star Wars sendup)
Per my 13-year-old son: "This is a hilarious adaptation of the classic Star Wars story (#4 - A New Hope). Even though the characters are changed, it still manages to keep the same plot. Highly recommended: lots of laughs for little coin."