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Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side [Blu-ray]

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Family Guy is back with a second Star Wars Episode. Honestly, it shouldn't matter if you are a fan of The Empire Strikes Back or not (I don't care much for A New Hope but loved the FG episode). Here is what you need to know: Is it funny? Sure, there are some laughs. Could it be better? I think so. Was it as funny as the last one? In my opinion, no.

Is it funny?-The fact that the episode had me laughing in the first few minutes was a good sign (the probe droid scene was probably my favorite scene in the episode). They do well to incorporate characters into funny yet familiar roles in the most random of times. You will laugh at this episode, so that should be worth something.

Could it be better?-Well...that is kind of my whole point here. There are so many missed opportunities in this episode to poke fun at Star Wars or other actors/actresses that are not taken advantage of. No Luke kissing Leia jokes...no Lando crossing his friends...no jokes about the Ugnaughts (pig people)...come on! Is it too predictable? Maybe...but it still deserves a shot. Besides the missed jokes, some parts were just not too funny, like the AT-AT jokes on Hoth.

Was it as funny as the last one?-I have my criticisms about Blue Harvest and they transfer over to this one too, but Blue Harvest just seemed to have the classic Family Guy humor to it whereas this one didn't.

In the end, I am glad they made this one, hopefully learned some lessons for when they make Return of the Jedi. If you are a Family Guy Fan, definitely buy it as it is worth seeing. Rewatch value is not as good as Blue Harvest, but still a worthwhile investment.

Thanks again for the laughs, Family Guy!!!

I'm assuming the majority of people reading this are familiar with Family Guy, and presumably Blue Harvest, and are therefore looking to see how this episode compares to Blue Harvest. Simply put, if you enjoyed Blue Harvest, rest assured you're likely going to enjoy this episode as well. My initial impressions rate this as comparable in quality to Blue Harvest, with enough "freshness" to keep it from feeling like a stale rehash, yet enough references to the first episode to hold the story together.

If by chance you haven't seen Blue Harvest, I'd recommend you see it first, as much like with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, this episode continues the story and references previous jokes and plot points.

The Blu-ray edition comes with a digital copy of the episode, and is presented in 1.33:1 ratio (regular/full screen/standard/whatever you prefer to call it). The run time is between 54 and 55 minutes (the digital copy shows as 54:41), putting it 7 minutes, 8 seconds longer than Blue Harvest.

First off the misinformed reviews that were out before the disc was even released should be taken off by Amazon. The run time is around 54 minutes plus credits.
As a Star Wars fan the packaging was great with lunch box and t-shirt exclusive from Best Buy.
The bluray looked awesome and the sound was loud and thundering. The show itself was funny, and closer to the actual movie Empire Strikes Back than Blue Harvest was with a New Hope. One thing if you have kids, there is some foul language.

It's no secret that Star Wars had a big impact on Seth MacFarlane, as evident throughout the entire series run of Family Guy, which more often than not is loaded with Star Wars-related references and gags. Blue Harvest, the first Family Guy/Star Wars mash-up was a blast, as is Something Something Something Dark Side, which this time around finds the denziens of Family Guy riffing and paying homage to The Empire Strikes Back. Like Blue Harvest before it, Something Something Something Darkside is surprisingly faithful to the source material, and is very, very funny to boot (seeing Mort dressed up like Lando is hilarious on its own, and Peter/Han's retort to Lois/Leia's declaration of love is even more so). Even though this installment is a little longer in running time compared to Blue Harvest, as a whole it's still too short, but the end result still packs enough laughs for your time and attention.

I don't understand the rave reviews of this movie, it simply was not that good. I'm a huge fan of Family Guy, and Star Wars... I loved Blue Harvest. I've watched it over and over again, its hilarious. Something, Something, Something, Darkside was very disappointing, not nearly as funny as Blue Harvest. The jokes were flat, and rushed through. I get the use of all of Quohog's residents playing their various parts, but the Yoda character was really bad. Could the dialoge have been any lamer? There was nothing funny whatsoever in that entire sequence. It pains me to say this because I'm that big of a fan of Family Guy, but this was a total waste of money and a huge disappointment.

This video was pretty disappointing. It was not nearly as funny as Blue Harvest. My best friend bought it and we just watched it for the first time today. We immediately had the same reaction after it was over. It was ok and funny in parts but disappointing. A lot of the gags weren't funny and there were so many things that could have been a lot funnier. Glad I watched my friend's copy because I'm not going to waste the money to buy this now. It was ok to watch once but I wouldn't re-watch it so no point in buying it.

There's not much to say about this episode that hasn't already been said. Lots of re-used jokes, most of them not funny. Definitely some laugh out loud parts, but mostly I found myself bored watching this. I actually fell asleep twice before I managed to get through the entire thing, which is a bad sign. Worth seeing once, but I wouldn't recommend buying.

What a horrible followup to Blue Harvest. The first thing was that there was not a digital copy, as there was with Blue Harvest. On the plus side, this film was so poorly done that it is not worth putting on your iPod or iPhone. The jokes were simply not there--this time around they simply did a half-hearted rendition of ESB with a few dumb jokes thrown in there. There was no real effort to actually make this funny in any way. In short, I felt ashamed that I went out and bought this movie, because the logic seems to have been : if I enjoy stupid humor, then I must be stupid enough to laugh at anything and to buy it. Well, I did buy it, and it was a waste of money.

I'm old enough to have seen the original Star Wars trilogy as a first run in the theaters, and these things bring back memories. Family Guy is unique in that it riffs on a lot of pop culture references, but they aren't all recent pop culture. Somehow, these meld together in an enjoyable parody of what most consider the best of the Star Wars movies.

Without going into a lot of detail, they nail what needs to be nailed. The filler parts are a little hit and miss, and you can tell how drawn out this process is by watching the table reads. The famously ad-libbed scene from the original where Leia tells Han she loves him (after being so stand-offish the entire movie) is incredibly funny for pretty much anyone, while show-specific references (Stewie's confused sexuality, Cleveland falling off of something saying, "No, no, NO NO!", and so on) are geared toward Family Guy fans.

There are a few dry spells that seem rushed. I get that Yoda is Chris's boss from the show and he has memorized every naked person scene from every movie, but why didn't he reference those with Yoda's unique sentence structure? The Juicy Fruit ad seemed more suited to a regular episode rather than a movie parody. The exact same "electricity is out" seemed to exist just to give them another 20 second spoof of something on TV.

As a whole, though, the package delivers. For those not familiar with Family Guy, it may seem bizarrely tasteless at times. For those that don't know the original Star Wars trilogy, the story references and the plot in general will probably be a little confusing as it's part two of a trilogy. For fans of both, it's well worth the price of admission.

The first Family Guy spoof of Star Wars was funny and fresh. Something Something.... was clearly an attempt to cash in and make a quick buck. The writing was sub par for Family Guy and really did not have more than one laugh in it for me. I am a Family Guy fan and watch the show daily but I felt that this movie lacked the humor that I expected for an episode that I had to pay for. I am sure the third installment of the Star Wars franchise will be out soon just to show that Family Guy is trying to make a quick buck.