TV Discussion Family Guy: Blue Harvest, Something, Something, Something, Dark Side & It's a Trap!

I haven't seen it yet, but what you're pointing out is what I consider to be the main weakness of the first one. It seems the guys making it were so reverent of the films, that for many scenes they completely forget to parody it and simply re-enact the whole thing as faithfully as possible.

 

Dack vs the entire Imperial fleet? Hilarious.

Walker grabbing its knee and groaning? I nearly fell out of my chair with laughter.

 

A little early to tell, isn't it?

 

Saw it last night, and I have to say, I think they drop waaaay to many F-bombs. Some are in spots easy to cut for TV, some are not (and one is in a key scene).

And the opening crawl? I was laughing so hard, knowing that it will be HEAVILY edited for tv, not for profanity, but because of how they go after FOX.

There's some good scenes, but overall it felt... lacking.

Kudos on getting James Woods in there. I was hoping he'd show up.

I say Meg will wind up being Jabba in the third part.

 

Where did you see it? I thought it wasn't out on DVD till the 22nd.

 

Well, I have to say it was rather weak. As I feared they take way too much time re-enacting the film itself, with hardly any parody for long stretches. As for the jokes themselves, the vast majority was simply not funny, most of the good ones were in the trailer and I only chuckled once during the whole show (2-1B's line). I appreciate the effort and love that the Family Guy crew obvisouly put into this, but the bottom line is that with all the freedom they were allowed with the franchise, this simply should have been funnier.

 

It wasn't nearly as enjoyable as the first one for me, for reasons already stated. But some of it just recycled old Family Guy jokes, and most of it just wasn't that funny. Stewie as Darth Vader didn't quite work for me, but I did enjoy the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett - and Peter seems perfect for Han. I also felt the Yoda stuff could have been much funnier - it didn't help that the guy they chose to play him has only been in one single episode of FG (could they not have used Joe?).

 

I agree. There was so much they could have done with Yoda, and yet he was completely bland and his sequences very boring. The only good moment on Dagobah was the R2 landing joke.

 

Just saw it.

my sides hurt, most of the best jokes are from the large number of michael j. fox jokes.

and also never knew about han's clothes

 

I'm a little worried now, I hope it's good. Oh well, it's still on my Christmas list and I'm still looking forward to watching it Christmas day.

 

My expectations were kinda low, because IMO Family Guy kinda lost most of its quality after the fourth season and because I read some negative posts in this thread.

Anway, I saw it and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. A lot of funny references and sidesteps. Mort as Lando was a great choice, though they didn't use Mort's weaknesses to the max to highlight the reverted personalities compared to the actual movie Lando.
I agree on Yoda. After seeing SSDS I would have liked to see Meg playing him.
Didn't like the AT-AT baby joke. Would have preferred it to be a toilet instead- yes, a pretty obvious joke, but not as unnecessarily shocking.
One of my favourite moments would have to be Luke contacting Tom Selleck through the Force.

 

I saw it and i thought it was even better than the first one! I absolutely loved it. Im just a huge, die hard family guy fan so i actually appreciate all of the little in-jokes and re-uses/recycles of old family guy jokes.

I actually thought that casting Carl from the Quahog Mini-Mart as yoda was perfect. Hes already friends with chris and always has funny, drawn out conversations about movies and pop couture with chris so when i first herd he was going to be yoda i knew it would make for great scenes between the two and thats just how it was. I loved the rocky 4 joke as well as the kenny baker joke and the part where hes seeing the future and Carl says "That is a BITCH you see" -LMAO!

Anyways the only thing i dont like is the fact that im going to have to wait ANOTHER 2 YEARS just to see the next family guy star wars special .

ima go ride my "Don-don" now. -LOLOLOL

 

I saw it and I LOVED it. It was great in every way. The jokes were fresh and the cast was awesome. My favorite casting was the cookie monster as the Wampa

 

Just finished watching it. It was funny, but I think Blue Harvest is the better of the two. It seemed like they were trying to follow the actual film too much and this conflicted with the comedy bits. I didn't think Dagobah with Chris and Yoda was that great, FG's Yoda was too boring of a character and it seemed like wasted potential since Yoda can be a pretty mischievous guy.

My favorite scenes would be R2 "convincing" the computer terminal to let them out and getting caught by he computer's boyfriend, Leia explaining the escape plan to the Rebels, and most of the Vader scenes. Looking forward to ROTJ, hope it gets out much sooner this time around.

 

Count me among those who enjoyed this one better than BH - which I don't remember very well, because I haven't seen it since it came out. It also sounds great in blu-ray, the parts where the soundtrack is heavy with music and/or sound effects from the movie is a nice preview of what the actual movie will sound like when it comes out in blu-ray.

I kind of like that some of it is pretty much straight out of the movie, because I enjoyed watching the same scenes, but in animation style.

Don't really watch Family Guy, so I don't know the characters very well, but I liked the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett - and I'm stoked he's featured in the T-shirt that comes with the BB-exclusive gift set.

Where was James Wood? I missed him, but it was fun to learn James Caan turned to the dark side.

By the way, the BTTF bit at the end isn't from Part III, but from Part II.

 

Nowhere near as good as Blue Harvest.
Had some amusing bits though. The choice of Carter as Palpatine was ok at best. The cut gag about the operator would have been nice too. The Dax bits were cool.Especially when he just gets shot 'boom' after all his talk. 2-1B's sausage line was awesome. Carl as Yoda was TERRIBLE by and large. And the Rocky 4 montage was totally out of place. I honestly don't know who would have made a good Yoda. Maybe the Sea Captain? I will say Dr. Hartman as Gen.Rienkin was superb.
The Carbon Freeze was....meh. Save for the mooning gag. I wish they would have just played it straight. Somethings should not be played around with. The line from Peter after lois/Leia says 'I love you', and the Nerfherder bit too,....I pray that gets cut/redone for TV. His line to Lois was pathetically sad & out of place or...whatever.
Stewie/Vader's Spoiler Alert bit was fun though. The AT-AT's 'knee bit' is quite funny, even after seeing the trailor many times. The 'lots of empire stuff', "choke through TV", the opening crawl, Meg's cameo as the asteroid monster, Consuela's hologram, Joe as the Probe Droid, Elroy Jetson, Han's torture scene with music, Cookie Monster, seeing the Shelter for Luke, Overweight Pilot #1, and other bits were sweet.
One massive wasted wink would have been Greased Up Deaf Guy, or other charactor, (GUDG just came to mind first), as the Ice Cream Maker Guy trying to sell cones or something.
Peter/Han's "4 out of 5 main charactors" line was freakin' funny. I wish they would have recreated the Lando Vader 'altering the deal' gag from Robot Chicken. Or thought of it first. That would've been classic Stewie.
By and large Blue Harvest was a loving homage/satire to Star Wars. SSSDS had more in the way of vicious insults IMHO. I am sure that the less darker tone of ROTJ, like ANH before it, will serve FG's next Star Wars "Bad Feeling" well. On the whole, I give it a B-.

 

Just saw it today and I agree with some that it just wasn't as good as Blue Harvest. It fell flat in a few places and I found it to be a bit too mean spirited. I didn't appreciate all the F-Bombs either. One in particular was so out of place it was insulting. Even the DVD extras were disappointed compared with last time.

However it does look like that "I Have A Bad Feeling About This" will be funnier based on the table read.

 

Well, I just saw it. It was funny, but not on the same level as Blue Harvest.

I did notice one thing. In the sequence with the rebel fleet at the end, did anyone notice the E-wing? There was one sort of shaded out on the right hand side of the medical frigate in the background.

 

I loved that all of the mynocks were played by the evil monkey.

 

I thought this one to be funnier than the first.....but I can't say I'm a fan of either or Family Guy in general so I'm really not the target audience.

Boba in the chicken suit has great action figure potential.

 

I've seen a few people say they had some issues with the f-bombs, but its Family Guy. Its a show that will use beeps on network tv rather then not use a swear word. And its an uncut DVD release, the back of thebox says "language not sutiable for all ages....what did you expect?

I realize I'm in a minority, since nothing really offends me and I can see the humor in just about everything, and bad language can and does offend people, but its on you as a consumer to know what you're buying, and if that kind of language does offend you or disapoint you or whatever, don't buy it.

 

I think the problem is not so much with the profanity of the F-word, but how it's often used purely for shock value, in the place of an actual joke. The most glaring example of this is the "I love you" scene. Han's F response is not funny, doesn't make sense in the context of the movie and not even in the context of the parody. It's there simply as a cheap shot.