Spent the entire weekend watching the Family Guy dvd set. So here's a sorta small review:
The set contains seasons one and two. There are four discs, with each disc containing seven episodes.
Not that complicated.
The show is fuckin' hilarious. No doubt about it.
The dvd extras are really lacking, though. If you're like me, you don't give two craps about watching the show in Spanish or French. Or reading Spanish subtitles.
So, let's move right along to the other features.
There are only three:
1.) Commentary from creator Seth MacFarlane and various writers and actors (the line-up changes with each commentary.
2.) A "Behind The Scenes" featurette.
3.) Promotional commercials.
I'll start at the bottom and work my way up.
The Promotional commercials: Crap. Actually, low quality crap using either recycled scenes (and some scenes with audio from other scenes
) or new material that looked like a four-year-old stuck a pencil up his ass and then totally forgot about the pencil so he vomited and used his finger to draw the characters in the chunks of Jiffy and bananas. But you can't blame the dvd for that. This is the way they originally aired. Nothing special.
Behind the scenes featurette. The biggest gripe I have is that it's all of four minutes long. No joke. It's really just a commercial, but it does offer a neat little glimpse into the making of the show. The only thing I can really say is that I wish it were longer.
And Seth Green is a tool. Lemon tea... Psssh.
Idiot.
Okay. The commentary. Here's where the dvd falls on its face and then gets punched in the balls by midgets dressed like little Satans. Only two episodes on each disc have commentary. Which means that out of the twenty-eight episodes in the collection, twenty of them have no commentary. No, seriously. Twenty of them. I even counted to make sure my math was right. And of the eight commentaries, only three of them are any interesting. Most of the time, the commentators are just watching the show and will occassionally say how funny they thought a certain joke was. This means that you get at least two times per commentary where there will be absolute silence for a good few minutes (not counting the audio in the show itself, which you can still hear). The third and fourth discs aren't as bad as the first and second discs.
When you do get commentary, it isn't that great. Like I said, the majority of their conversation is, "Oh, man, that joke is great." Also, some nit-picking about the animation is fairly frequent. There are a few anecdotes and jokes made, but nothing that'll make you want to watch twice.
So, after all the complaining, what do I give the dvd?
Four out of five stars.
Sure, the extra features are lacking. But the show itself is so brilliantly funny, it gets four stars by default.
Stewie is my hero.
The set contains seasons one and two. There are four discs, with each disc containing seven episodes.
Not that complicated.
The show is fuckin' hilarious. No doubt about it.
The dvd extras are really lacking, though. If you're like me, you don't give two craps about watching the show in Spanish or French. Or reading Spanish subtitles.
So, let's move right along to the other features.
There are only three:
1.) Commentary from creator Seth MacFarlane and various writers and actors (the line-up changes with each commentary.
2.) A "Behind The Scenes" featurette.
3.) Promotional commercials.
I'll start at the bottom and work my way up.
The Promotional commercials: Crap. Actually, low quality crap using either recycled scenes (and some scenes with audio from other scenes
) or new material that looked like a four-year-old stuck a pencil up his ass and then totally forgot about the pencil so he vomited and used his finger to draw the characters in the chunks of Jiffy and bananas. But you can't blame the dvd for that. This is the way they originally aired. Nothing special.
Behind the scenes featurette. The biggest gripe I have is that it's all of four minutes long. No joke. It's really just a commercial, but it does offer a neat little glimpse into the making of the show. The only thing I can really say is that I wish it were longer.
And Seth Green is a tool. Lemon tea... Psssh.
Idiot.
Okay. The commentary. Here's where the dvd falls on its face and then gets punched in the balls by midgets dressed like little Satans. Only two episodes on each disc have commentary. Which means that out of the twenty-eight episodes in the collection, twenty of them have no commentary. No, seriously. Twenty of them. I even counted to make sure my math was right. And of the eight commentaries, only three of them are any interesting. Most of the time, the commentators are just watching the show and will occassionally say how funny they thought a certain joke was. This means that you get at least two times per commentary where there will be absolute silence for a good few minutes (not counting the audio in the show itself, which you can still hear). The third and fourth discs aren't as bad as the first and second discs.
When you do get commentary, it isn't that great. Like I said, the majority of their conversation is, "Oh, man, that joke is great." Also, some nit-picking about the animation is fairly frequent. There are a few anecdotes and jokes made, but nothing that'll make you want to watch twice.
So, after all the complaining, what do I give the dvd?
Four out of five stars.
Sure, the extra features are lacking. But the show itself is so brilliantly funny, it gets four stars by default.
Stewie is my hero.
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and Stewie completely rules.