If you like Family Guy or are just a great Seth Green fan, then you'll like Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. Only 88 minutes long, this DVD which is a movie inside a TV show does suffer from some of the problems with many movies that are based on TV shows, and I'm not talking about crap like The Dukes of Hazzard and Bewitched. I'm talking about the good movies like Beavis and Butt-head Do America and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Some of the major characters like Joe the Parapelegic Cop and the Evil Monkey That Lives in Chris' closet have minor walk-ons. And Brian the family's talking dog, who is ironically, the sanest of the bunch, is almost missing from the third act of the film.
The movie is basically set up like three TV episodes that tell one story. Stewie Griffin, the Lemonhead head-shaped baby who speaks with a Eurotrash accent and set on world domination as well as patricide of "Lois and the Fatman" has a bad accident while taking swimming lessons. He has a near death incident where he is sent to Hell where Who's the Boss is on every TV channel. After coming back, he decides to change his life for the better.
At the same time, Peter Griffin, has gotten a job at the local TV station doing commentaries where he discusses why he hates Lindsay Lohan and why there aren't any priest-rabbi jokes anymore.
One day, while watching the news, Stewie notices a man in San Francisco who resembles him. Then, he sets out with Brian to track down what he thinks is his real father.
To tell anymore would give away a lot.
This DVD has many of the gags that fans of the show Family Guy will find familiar. There are swipes at Entertainment Weekly, gags about people who talk loud on cell phones, obscure references to things from the 80's like Who's the Boss and Angel Heart, and sex jokes that push the limit. I really like the joke about The Shield and its star, Michael Chiklis. It's refreshing to know that I'm not the only one who thinks that show is overrated.
The DVD has both the uncensored and censored version, but even though the jacket advertises "uncensored," the viewer has to go to the special features section to find the uncensored part. Also, it feels as if the writers had forgotten to add profanity until the last thirty minutes of the show. There is only one of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words for the first hour, then, the show goes overboard at the end.
Still, the Ferris Bueller gag is funny and what other movie would make a Ellen Cleghorne reference as a major plot point.
This DVD isn't for everyone. But if you're a fan of Family Guy, it's just what you've been waiting for.
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