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: #899 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

Amazon.com
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

Great parody, great show!
This show is one of the best parodies of the Star Wars universe I have seen so far. The animation is great...like back in the mid-80's with GI JOE and TRANSFORMERS. I even like it better than the new Clone Wars clips available so far. The characters are funny and seem to be well suited for these roles in particular Stewie(playing Darth Vader). This parody puts a fresh spin on this science fiction legend. Though not the idealistic cast for such roles, the faults and limitations of this cartoon family is what we like the most about them.

Really Good
Seth McFarlane is a twisted dude...thankfully. This Family Guy movie, although predictable in many ways, remains fresh and really funny, as do the Family Guy TV episodes. Please continue to keep McFarlane away from any medication or lobotomization until the series has been completed.

A Very Comedic Spoof
As I stated on an earlier review, I'm was a huge early fan of Family Guy but the latest episodes haven't really kept my attention like the first ones but I'll say that this was the funniest episode of Family Guy in recent months. Now I'm not a Star Wars fan but I've seen the movie & the spoof they did here was right on the money...with a couple of shots done on other movies like Breakfast Club, National Lampoon's Vacation, and Airplane. This was like the Family Guy of old where the jokes were funny a majority of the time without using tons of cutaway jokes & heavy "uncensored" language to make up for the lack of story. This is one Family Guy disc that you can watch over & over again close together & still laugh at the time stuff that doesn't get old. The only thing that I thought sucked was that the only part they had for Meg was a 2 second cameo. The DVD extras weren't much past the alternative commentary & a clip show of all the Star Wars references they've done throughout the run of the series but the other extras were an interview with George Lucas, a "making of" feature, and the animatic version. In the end, the main feature is less than an hour long but it was entertaining enough to get the DVD set itself so I recommend & look forward to them spoofing the other movies in the future if they're going to be as good as this one.