The Family Guy Movie - For legal reasons, let's call this a prediction.
by author name on Thursday 22 September 2005
So, Family Guy movie. Yeah, umm... wow. That, well, that was about 86 minutes longer than it needed to be. Whoa. Saving all their ?A? material for the tv spots, huh? I'll tell you, everyone who pays for the movie will be pretty pissed. Well, most everyone. There'll be a group of bastiches out there who'll insist that the movie was brilliant. These blind-to-reason, logic, evidence, common sense, and taste, possibly retarded, definitely annoying, most likely also Star Wars fans, will tell everyone to see the film and won't understand why all their friends then hate them. Don?t be one of these people.
Look, if you are a fan of the series, get someone to loan you their pirated copy of the film and watch it drunk, it'll help pass the time.
I love the family guy television series. Watch that. Support that. Heck, buy those dvds if you want to give them some money. But don't encourage the production of this squalor. They're better than this. You as a viewer is worth more than this. Something went horribly wrong in the process of making the movie and all evidence points to the writing. I'm talking to you Alex Borstein, Steve Callaghan, Gary Janetti, and Chris Sheridan. Seth MacFarlane what the hell were you thinking? You people know better. You're better than this. There have been over 60 Family Guy episodes. And though some are better than others, all of them are better than the movie. The script was only as long as four episodes. This should have been a cake-walk. What happened?
There were a few clever and mildly funny moments. However, too much of the film was a series of weak attempts at low-brow humor and rehashing moments that were funny the first time they appeared in the series. When they reappeared in the film they more often than not served little purposed save to extend the film from a crappy episode into something long enough to peddle as a movie.
The film would rank somewhere around 2/10. I'd give it a 1/10 but I'm reserving that ranking for films that really deserve it. At least the Family Guy movie, though equally evident that the creator no longer has - if he ever had - the ability to make a quality film, released its viewers from the bonds of hell it had so viciously ensnared them with almost a full hour earlier than
Star Wars - Episode III. And that still means something in my book.
- Savage
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