Family Guy – Blue Harvest
Product Description
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, crushingly 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 small part as the hideous reptilian creature that haunts the garbage compactor. Blue Harvest is reverently faithful to A New Hope, even as engaging in predictable Family Guy pop-polish references (everything from those ancient 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 small part as John Bender for a Breakfast Club gag, Flash Limbaugh balustrade 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 may possibly resist the opportunity to hear the Muzak before a live audience in a Death Star elevator?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, crushingly 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 small part as the hideous reptilian creature that haunts the garbage compactor. Blue Harvest is reverently faithful to A New Hope, even as engaging in predictable Family Guy pop-polish references (everything from those ancient 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 small part as John Bender for a Breakfast Club gag, Flash Limbaugh balustrade 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 may possibly resist the opportunity to hear the Muzak before a live audience in a Death Star elevator? --Donald Liebenson
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February 25th, 2010 - 03:26
This was a terrible show!!! Don’t waste your money. It has none of the Family Guy humor. I reckon I might have laughed once. Technically it is done really well as far as the animation and following the scenes from Star Wars. They may possibly have done a much, much better job with this show, it had alot of the makings. For the most part it was just dull, so I guess its a excellent business this was not very long.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 25th, 2010 - 05:45
I can’t stand Family Guy, and seeing YET ANOTHER Star Wars parody featuring this unfunny cartoon didn’t help matters. I mean, for crying out loud, haven’t there been enough New Hope parodies? ‘Hardware Wars’ anyone? THIRTY YEARS AGO?
Oh, but this is HIGH-BROW, since they called it ‘Blue Harvest’, the surprise filming name of ROTJ. Aren’t these people clever? Or maybe just pretentious.
The jokes in this are stale, and have been done over and over already. The only legitimate laugh was John Williams accidentally being killed and replaced with a dull and repetitive Danny Elfman. Hey, waitaminute… maybe that’s the irony of this:
Danny Elfman = dull and repetitive composer
Family Guy = dull and repetitive Simpsons ripoff in a tired Star Wars parody.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 25th, 2010 - 06:45
It’s being paid to be a bit much at this point. First they separate the last season into two DVD sets to get more money out of fans. Now they are charging this much for one episode! If they don’t aspire to place it in the next box set, if fans don’t wait until then or if someone only wants this one episode, they may possibly at least place forward it on iTunes for the standard episode fee. This is being paid ridiculous. I am not paying for this and I seriously doubt that I will buy the next set. I’ll just watch the reruns that are on at least 3 different channels rather than give in to their greed. I recommend others do the constant and send a message.
If they really wanted to place forward the fans something worthwhile and worth the money, they should have only released this version, with all the extras (the shirt, cards, etc.), at the price they are charging for the regular version with the episode only. Other than that, this is just greed. I don’t recognize if it is the studio or Seth, but either way, we shouldn’t stand for it. My guess is it’s the studio, so if people don’t pay the high prices for low value Seth would be able stand up to them a bit more.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 25th, 2010 - 09:26
If you are not a left-wing moron you are going to believe like you got ripped off by buying this turd-basket.
Rating: 2 / 5
February 25th, 2010 - 10:36
The racket of the fans. The ratings on Cartoon Network. Was it not we the fans that brought this show in trade from extinction and then allowed Seth to not only get Family Guy in trade but make drivel like American Dad? And this is how we are repaid with a $13 two-episode disc or a $25 “special edition?”
Can’t help but reckon greed, greed, greed here. But when Lucas gave his blessing for an episode like this to happen you had to recognize the marketing wheels were rolling in his head, thus here we are at 48 minutes for either 13 or 25 bucks.
As for the episode itself, it was fantastic for the most part. It has the appalling let’s-see-how-long-we-can-drag-it-out jokes that unfortunately Family Guy has relied on since its return. But for a fan of both Family Guy (pre-drag out jokes as long as we can) and Star Wars this is an enjoyable show.
Rating: 2 / 5