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Family Guy: It's a Trap!
- Review Date: December 21, 2010
- NR
- Genre: Comedy
- 2010
Common Sense Media says
Crude humor, pop culture references in animated Jedi spoof.
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QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Family Guy: It's a Trap! is the third part in a trilogy of Star Wars parodies, performed by the characters of TV's raunchy animated comedy Family Guy. It sticks fairly close to the story, dialogue, and images of Return of the Jedi, and adds the usual combination of crude humor, sexual innuendo, and pop culture references with some strong language (a few uses of "f--k" and "s--t"). There's also a good deal of cartoon/fantasy violence, with severed limbs, spattering blood, and gushing brains, among other things.
What's the story?
The power blinks out in the Griffin household, and thus it's time for another Star Wars story (the first two were Family Guy: Blue Harvest and Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side). This time Luke/Chris (voiced by Seth Green) must rescue Leia/Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein) and Han/Peter (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), complete his Jedi training and face the evil Darth Stewie (voiced by MacFarlane), while his colleagues blow up the new Death Star with the help of the cuddly Ewoks. Will good triumph over evil, even though good stops to tell jokes every few seconds?
Is it any good?
During the opening crawl of FAMILY GUY: IT'S A TRAP!, an unseen narrator explains that the Family Guy creators were pretty much forced into this sequel, and that their hearts weren't in it; the narrator asks if we could lower our expectations just a bit. At the end, the characters make fun of the lowbrow humor of the show, and the talent receives a gentle ribbing.
Despite all these safety features, It's a Trap really does feel like a last-minute, half-hearted attempt, with only the most sporadic jokes working at all. It certainly doesn't manage to skewer Return of the Jedi very well (the fiercest barb is reserved for Leia's braided hair), and indeed sticks very close to many of the images and lines of dialogue from that 1983 original. Still, the complete fearless abandon of this show makes it amusing, if crude, overall, and it definitely has some clever ideas.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the extra-raunchy humor in this movie. Is it funny because of a quick shock, or does the humor go any deeper at any point?
What is a parody? What does it accomplish? Does this movie make Return of the Jedi look silly? Does it retain any themes or ideas from that movie?
Are there stereotypes in this movie? If so, what are they? Why are they treated as funny?
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14+ ?!
Honestly, I haven't seen it yet.
But I hate that Family Guy always gets a 14+ rating from CSM while other shows like "Friends" also get a 14+ rating. That doesn't even make sense! "Friends" never says anything like "d*ck" "G*ddamn" "sh*t" "f*ck" or "rub your wang". I mean, seriously? Family Guy is 15+. Period.
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this was not even all that funny, its just intresting and stupid, but alot of bad words in it throughout the parody of star wars
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good but not appropriate
less sexual behavior than something something something dark side still inappropriate for younger kids
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Good.
This is full of profanity! South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut had more though.
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appropriate for Teens
There is nothing really bad about this movie except for the language there is 5 F bombs and some other mild curse words.
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Kid, 11 years old
May 9, 2012
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family guy its a trap
its funny its a bit inapropriate butonly 10 year olds or over sould see it
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Kid, 8 years old
May 9, 2012
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FROWNY FACE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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Kid, 10 years old
May 7, 2012
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very bad for kids
and adults
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| Studio: | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Director: | Peter Shin |
| Cast: | Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green, Seth MacFarlane |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 57 minutes |
| DVD release date: | December 21, 2010 |
| MPAA rating: | NR |
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