Monday, February 10, 2014

Blue Harvest (Family Guy)


A retelling of Star War Episode IV, I was surprised that it was so faithful to the original.  As it's only 45 mins long, naturally it had to cut out a lot of stuff but most of those were just non-essential stuff like Luke's life and laser fights.  It's interesting to see which Family Guy characters they use to portray the different Star Wars characters, and I thought that they made some good choices.  Obi-Wan Kenobi was slightly disappointing, no cool tricks up his sleeves this time.  The humor is mostly from random stuff in the scenes, which can be jarring at times.  The humor could be done better, and I would rather some clever witty dialogue that random stupid stuff (which may or may not be funny) that parodies love doing.  Of course, there are a number of references to things other than Star Wars so your enjoyment depends on how well versed you are in a wide range of entertainment.  Overall, it was an amusing watch, it was a bit too short though, an hour of running time would be better.

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