Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (Ltd Edition) [2007]

RRP £26.99 Lowest New Price £25.00

Suitable for 15 years and over 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Release date: Monday 21st of January 2008 Starring: Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Format: PAL, Special Edition, Region code: 2 Language: English (Original Language)

RRP: £26.99
Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review

What better way to commemorate Star Wars' 30th anniversary than with this double-length Very Special Episode, a full-scale, awesomely animated spoof that recasts George Lucas's 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 paedophile, is Obi-Wan (both voiced by Mike Henry); and, of course, Stewie (Seth, one more time) 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 old 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's 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, Amazon.com

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5 stars is not enough!
Review date: 2008-10-24 Rating: 10 out of 10

I have to say, this was even better than I expected. I was laughing so hard (a rare occurance in most movies) that I actually had to stop the DVD to take a breather, my sides hurt so badly :-) It's not just Star Wars, there are even a few more clever film references throughout, with Airplane (another favourite of mine) popping up more than once. This is the combination of probably 2 of the best things I could watch, Family Guy and Star Wars.... who needs anything more? The ltd edition is a great fun pack.... however better for the collectors than anything else.

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