Director: Pete Michels & Peter Shin
Starring: Seth McFarlane, Seth Green, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry, Lori Alan, Drew Barrymore, Will Sasso, Adam West, Patrick Warburton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Tori Spelling.
Tagline: "88 Minutes of Pee-in-Your-Pants Fun!"
Random Trivia: Will Sasso has done a couple of Family Guy episodes. He was also in an episode of The X-Files and Doctor Who. Cooool. He got his start on a Canadian show called Madison, which I actually remember. What's the connection? Well, Will Sasso showed up on WWE wrestling, as did Family Guy regular Seth Green. Both of them were involved with Triple H. Why do I even know this?!?!?
Yet another Family Guy review featuring incredible YouTube Clip-O-Vision!
I'd like to start this off with a rant. Stewie's gay. We get it. He's awkward and effeminate and inappropriately pervy at times. He has a penchant for cross-dressing that's borderline creepy. And it was funny. Once. But it's overkill. Bring back matricidal Stewie!!!
Ok I guess the show did bring him back in the Stewie Kills Lois episode... but gone are the days when Stewie was the funniest character on Family Guy. During the initial run, he certainly was - Seasons 1 - 3, which on DVD eventually rescued the show from oblivion. But much like Bart Simpson gave way to Homer as the epicenter of the show after a few years, Stewie has been dumbed down and allowed Peter's more zany stupidity to shine through and amuse us.
Yet he remains a t-shirt peddling, calendar moving animated icon. He's on my wall right now, and for once, the page is turned to the correct month - at least for a few more days.
And he is still funny.
Hence the reason for Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story. This DVD is probably a tad too late, and really, the time to release it would have been the second the show returned - but alas, it was delayed, held back, etc., for whatever reason(s).
When it finally did air, it served as a multi-part episode, but here I'm reviewing the DVD, supposedly longer/uncensored. Basically, it's a big long episode, and the first of what seems to be a trend now that the Star Wars spoofs have come to fruition.
Some highlights:
- Quagmire's Cross-Cuntry Tour - nice! Or better yet, Giggity!
- Adam West taking "Maple Syrup" back (I'm keeping that one)
- "Women on Women or anything with an amputee"
- Meg knee'd in the face
- You know what really Grinds My Gears?
- The red carpet premiere of the "movie"
The basic premise of this is simple: Peter gets his own segment on the local news, a flat-out rant that goes something like this: You know what really grinds my gears? You, America. Fuck You.
Well actually that's his final broadcast; prior to that he has some real topics that grind his gears.
And, during the commotion of Peter getting his own news spot, Stewie happens to notice a guy on TV who looks EXACTLY like him - only grown up! Thinking it's his "real" father, Stewie embarks on a mission to hunt the man down - only to find out that the man is, in fact, himself - back in time on a vacation from the future.
Obviously, Stewie's life hasn't turned out the way he has been anticipating - he's not the ruler of the world, and dear mother is not dead - thus he hops a ride back to the future, where Chris has a bitch of a wife, Brian is dead, and Meg has become "Ron" by way of a sex change. No one's all that surprised over the last bit of news...
I'll admit it - this episode is much more amusing when high. It's one of those rare times when something that somewhat disappointed me because much better thanks to being baked. So thank you, Marijuana, for making the purchase of this DVD that much more enjoyable.
I still can't give this one a spectacular review by any stretch of the imagination, as given the hype that led up to it, it really was a let-down - but Family Guy fans should still enjoy it. And the best part of it, in the end, for me, was the clip above, the spoof of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
It should have just been thrown in with the rest of the season in a box set, however. FOX - fuck you and your bleeding the cash cow dry.
Bottom line - this gets a 3/5 due to me being high, otherwise, it would score a 2.
Overall Rating: Half-Baked (3 out of 5)
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