Stewie Griffin has a lot of fans, as you would expect, and quite a few are comparing The Untold Story to The South Park Movie, which, I feel, is a fair comparison. Does it match up to Bigger, Longer and Uncut? No. For the simple reason that the South Park movie has a plot, a story and a point to make, speaking loudly against censorship, in favour of free speech. The Family Guy film just uses the "uncut" slogan as a way of dragging in more vulgar humour.
Originally conceived as a movie and then broken up into three individual episodes for airing on TV, it comes in three very noticeable sections. As separate episodes, there is no real story at all and nothing to make you catch it again the next week, because there are loads of little sub-plots that begin but never finish.
Most of these stories are geared in Stewie's direction, but not so much that the movie should be named after him. Every half hour it goes in a new direction and we never feel like we're getting anywhere, other than into something else to make fun of. I can't really give a breakdown of the film, as it just goes all over the place. So much more could have become of a feature length Family Guy, but Seth MacFarlane and Co do nothing with it and seize no opportunity other than swearing and racier humour.
However, it is very funny and there are some classic moments that will have you in suffocating fits of laughter, such as the wacky, waving, inflatable, arm-flailing tube man commercial, the Thundercats scene, Britney Spears getting burned alive, the scene that dumps on the shoddy morals and ethics of Blockbuster Video, the restaurant with Tom Tucker's private booth and... well, pretty much everything is spot on. But this scatter-shot approach to comedy has all the sophistication of sticking a 12-bore into a crowd and pulling the trigger. Sure, you're going to hit everyone, but it's not very clever. And unless you're a total movie genius, a lot of the in-jokes will leave you in the dark.
Family Guy was never about subtlety, or holding back on the mayhem. If anything, it's the modern equivalent of Looney Tunes. Anyone who hoped for something big, or even king-sized, from this 88-minute animated feature will be sorely disappointed. It succeeds at exactly what it wants to do; it makes us laugh hysterically. However, it could/should have been more - depends on what you expect.
One of the best movie ever
i love this movie
im a big family guy fan and this movie is just hilarious
i can watch it a thousand times and stil dont getting bored
Wasn't too sure about this one, but I watched it with Amy and Aaron and I have to say...it's one of the funniest things I've seen in quite awhile. I hadn't seen The Fmily Guy in a long time, so I forgot how damn funny that show really is. It's everything you'd expect out of thoe show, which is to say it's a hell of a lot funnier than the Simpson's ever was, though they might just be two different styles of humour. Highly recommended for laughs.
awesome movie. I enjoyed the future,and it was kind've weird that meg had a sex change. I liked the joke with stewie writing douchebag on brain's grave and how that word wasne't appropriate,because there was a president douchebag,and that insult wasne't taken lightly.
I liked how the stewie from the past is now stewie,and that they will probably never mention that,since family guy has like a lot of continuity errors.
the scene with stewie shaving himself was disturbing though funny,and the scene where stewie is kind've sexual towards brian isn't a surprise,since there's been more then one time they've kissed or had sexual moments.
if you're a fan of the show, you'll enjoy this! it is best played with the uncensored audio track. absolutely priceless when you hear peter say, "fu-k you!"
Marks the point where the TV show was at its pinnacle. This fantastic movie is not only the best thing I've ever seen come from Family Guy, but is also one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
brilliantly captures the series in its best days , alot of film translations leave it too late and become money spinning mechanisms but the release of this was perfect and as a result it is hilarious. Sure its just like an extended episode but its a very funny episode at that so you cant go far wrong with it !
the only reason its not a 5 for me is because of ow frusturated i got. i looked all over the internet for this movie for about 2 weeks and when i finally found it i figured out i had already seen it. (it aired as regular episodes on tv)
Family guy comedy is pretty much hit or miss like a coked out stand-up comic with A.D.D. who spouts random one-liners. It might just be the funniest thing you ever saw or he might just burst a blood vessel in his nose and bleed all over his shirt while the audience stares in horror. This one was pretty good.
I absolutely love Family Guy, it's my favorite TV show and it makes me laugh every time I watch it. The movie was a bit disappointing because it wasn't as funny as the show, it was still really good and I liked a lot of it but it still didn't compare to the TV show.
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