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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 15-JAN-2008
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2274 in DVD
• Brand: Family
• Released on: 2008-01-15
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• 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

Not a Break-Out Success
This film is on par with the standard set by the Family Guy TV series - funny, a pile of in-jokes and references to other well known movies and TV shows, and all in all is quite entertaining.

However, it is really just another episode (or double episode) of the TV series, rather than a stand-alone film.

The price I paid for it, AUD$29, was, in hindsight, obscene for what I got, and I would hazard to say that this film should have simply been included in any boxset from the season it was part of. I wouldn't consider it a worthy purchase, on it's own, for anything more than US$5.

Good for collectors.
I'll keep this as brief as possible. Family Guy: Blue Harvest will be a major dissapointment to all but die hard Family Guy and Star Wars fans, of which I am both. But even with that said, I was still not very happy about this. Excluding the first season, I would say that this episode (and let's not kid ourselves here, it's not a movie, it's an episode) ranks in the least funny. With so many chances for good gags, I was constantly surprised at the lame jokes that the writers chose to make. I would say that the funniest bits were during the intro and outro segments with the family sitting on the couch. It's true that the animation here is top-notch, and they did an incredible job of matching scenes from the original film but, frankly, if I want to see those scenes played out with that kind of detail, I'll just watch the original, thanks. All that being said, if you are a compulsive collector of DVDs as I am, this is the only way you will own this episode (those that say they are waiting for this episode to be released with the regular season set are kidding themselves).

Regarding the Digital Copy included with the DVD version; completely useless. It can only be used a single time, and if you don't make use of it within 12 months of the episode's release, your right to use it basically becomes invalid. Plus, according to the reading I did from the disc's faq, it's non-transferable, so once you have it on your computer (or ipod or whatever) it can't be copied over or re-installed if you get a new system (I may not be 100% on all of this, but this is how it works as best as I could figure it...reading terms of use agreements makes my eyes cross). With these kinds of limitations, why include a digital copy at all? Better to have skipped it and lowered the overall price of this DVD.

16 bucks for an episode???
The 1 star rating isn't for the episode itself. I'd give that about a 4. But Fox is at it again; first they decide to release seasons 4 and 5 in 2 seperate sets each. Now they show even more lack of repect for the viewers by releasing this. Why the hell would anyone buy this rather then waiting for season 6, part 1, which will include Blue Harvest anyway? God damn Fox, why can't you just release Family Guy like every other show, season by season.