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| Family Guy - Blue Harvest | 
 enlarge | Director: Dominic Polcino
Actors: Seth Macfarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
Buy Used: $3.87
You Save: $11.11 (74%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 1319
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 48
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2249686D
UPC: 024543496861
EAN: 0024543496861
ASIN: B000YOX3HE
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 48 minutes Rating: Nr
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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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 Seriously? January 8, 2008
42 out of 94 found this review helpful
It's getting 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 want to put it in the next box set, if fans don't wait until then or if someone only wants this one episode, they could at least offer it on iTunes for the standard episode fee. This is getting 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 suggest others do the same and send a message.
 Even fun for non-Family Guy fans! January 4, 2008
37 out of 54 found this review helpful
I recorded this episode on my DVR when it aired in the beginning of this season and I must say it is one of the funniest episodes of Family Guy I've ever seen. This aired as an hour long episode so its shorter than 1 hour when you take out the commercials. I've shown this episode to several non-Family Guy viewers and they've all enjoyed it.
You definitely have to have at least seen the original Star Wars movie to really enjoy this or else you won't get some/most of the jokes. But by this time, if you haven't seen Star Wars yet you must be living in a cave.
I don't know if this DVD is really worth $16 however. It will be available on the DVD box set for this last season (Season 6) when it comes out if you can wait that long. But if you really want to watch it now then I think its cool that they are releasing it. Its also a nice piece to add to your Star Wars collection.
16 bucks for an episode??? January 3, 2008
35 out of 49 found this review helpful
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.
You'll wish you lived on Alderan... January 15, 2008
34 out of 47 found this review helpful
Every once in awhile I see people complaining that Family Guy is gouging their fans. You see reviews whining about seasons being cut in half and how the Stewie special is really just three episodes put together, but none of that ever bothered me because I enjoyed the show. Sure, it's lazy a lot of the time just like the South Park guys pointed out in the Cartoon Wars episodes, but I still enjoy the show. And I always look forward to seeing a new episode on TV or a new DVD coming out.
This was no exception. And keep in mind, I've been a Star Wars fan since I was a kid. So, today I bought the Blue Harvest special edition.
It has a couple of decent extra items. A book on the art of making the movie, cards, 3-D glasses, a shirt... nothing amazing, but okay stuff.
In retrospect, I wish it had come with a rape whistle so that I might have alerted others to the fact that I was buying this hackneyed phoned-in garbage and gotten help instead of having to spend the night curled up in a ball at the bottom of my shower whimpering, "they didn't even try to be funny. They just remade the movie with their characters, threw in a couple of gags, and thought that was enough. That wasn't a spoof. That was garbage. Spaceballs is a spoof. This was... this was just garbage. I was raped by garbage. I was raped by garbage. I was raped by garbage..." until I finally turn grey, slowly break into ash, and then am washed down the drain into the sewer lines where I can finally feel clean again.
Trey, Matt... you guys were right.
I knew you were right then, I just didn't really listen. And you're right, it's not rape if you give consent. And I guess I did. I have no one to blame but myself, and the horrible, horrible jerks who thought this should have been released anywhere other than YouTube.
Just Bad. January 4, 2008
32 out of 65 found this review helpful
They are doing everything they can to make a quick buck, and this is the climax of that. From whole seasons, to half seasons, to an episode. Im sorry, but the parody of star wars wasnt even that great, actually my favorite part of the episode was the ending, when Chris was saying that Robot Chicken was better, because it surely was.
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