Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Review by Jason Gaston

Seth MacFarlane’s raunchy Family Guy makes a moderately-sized leap into a direct to DVD movie called Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story which really isn’t a movie, but rather three episodes that haven’t aired yet packaged together as a movie. However, this movie is different because it’s uncensored… which doesn’t make a lot of sense to me because my version that I watched sure as hell was censored as curse words were bleeped out.

Of course, I’ve learned now that there was a separate track that would let you hear the word “fuck” without that ear-splitting bleep, but let’s not kid ourselves here… this movie is censored.

Perhaps I’m just being picky. I suppose I should really talk about the Family Guy “movie” which finds Stewie going across the country to find a man who he thinks is his father. I don’t know, kids, this movie just didn’t do it for me. I suppose I was the victim of the hype or that I was actually thinking that this was going to be a real movie as the advertisements said it was going to be, but for the most part I found this collection of episodes merely that… a collection of episodes and tepid ones at that. I wasn’t really interested in the story and only laughed out loud a couple of times: once when Asian Reporter Trisha Takinowa started humping David Bowie’s leg and once when we saw an episode of Bugs Bunny Family Guy style. The rest of the movie can best be summed up with two words: ho-hum.

It’s my guess that these episodes will make their way to air in a couple of months to join the rest of what has so far been a pretty doldrum season of Family Guy. Personally, I think that an American Dad movie would have been a lot more entertaining since the series has become more entertaining than Family Guy itself.

The movie, such as it is, is awkward and only sporadically funny. It’s not terrible, but it doesn’t live up to itself either. I’d give this one a look if and only if you’re a Family Guy fan.