Wonderful character development!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

When a power cut hits the Griffin family home the usual focal point of the television is lost and Peter turns to a more traditional source of entertainment – original story telling. To entertain his family Peter tells a story of a young farm boy on a distant planet, drawn into the fight against the strength of the evil Empire.Understandably this episode was heavily pushed on DVD for sale and, thinking it was a full film I did add it to my LoveFilm list. Fortunately before that site could work out to get it to the top of my list I noticed that BBC were showing it as part of the new season of Family Guy. So, pleased that I saved myself a bit of cash, I watched it on BBC3 the other recently. From the very start the novelty value of seeing the familiar Star Wars footage and hearing the music the novelty value had me hooked. For a show built heavily on popular culture reference and p*ss-taking jokes, Family Guy offers lots of potential for affectionately spoofing the show – with its own style leaning away from the easy gags but also able to carry them as well.Mostly the approach is very funny, with plenty of good laughs. There are one or two misfires in there that don't work but for every one of those there are about ten good hits. It is all a bit silly of course and those that do not "get" Family Guy humour will find the same problem here, however for the majority I think it will work as it did for me. The "casting" of the regular characters is well done. Meg is wisely left to a apt and funny brief appearance while Peter and Brian are good as Han and Chewie. Lois as Leah is not overused while Chris is a good Luke. Cleveland and Quagmire are imaginatively cast as the droids. Both Stewie and old perv Herbert are well put in the roles of Vader and Kenobi but the former is not used often enough while the latter is perhaps overused to a certain degree and is responsible for a miss or two.Blue Harvest is not perfect, nor is it worth buying a forty minute special for the price of a full-length DVD but otherwise it is an enjoyable and very funny Star Wars spoof that is not so much mocking as it is affectionately joshing.

fan of Family Guy? remember the first Star Wars? well then, you are in for a treat - the one liners are gold, the characters are priceless - R2D2 getting high "I could really go for some Tatooine, Wind and Fire right now" takes a sec, but every laugh is a great laugh - well done guys!!watch it at any cost, and enjoycheck out the credits too, the 'Red Leaders' are listed - Mick Hucknell said his one line and was outRed Ochtobah, shtanding by = pricelessall in all, you will all have a pile of lines as your msn tags after watching this - mcfarlane at his best so far

I saw the episode, thought it was funny, and being such a fan of Family Guy, knew how much Seth McFarlane loved the Star Wars references. I knew it was only a matter of time before a full-on remake of the film was created.Then, I saw that a full-length DVD was coming out with extended and added scenes. Yeah. You thought it was good on Cartoon Network. Nothing compares to Stewie's diaper going over to the Dark Side. There is so much more adult humor. Everything is uncensored, and uncut.The DVD extras include excellent commentary with Seth McFarlane, David A. Goodman, and Dominic Polcino (the episode director). My suggestion is to watch it once without the commentary, and once with. There's a fantastic interview with George Lucas, and a look into how (and why) Blue Harvest was made. I had no idea just how much of the original film was actually used. Direct quotes from Star Wars, scenes taken directly from the film, even 95% of the score is the original score with short edits and the Family Guy adaptation from Walter Murphy. The detail of the animation, right down to the explosions that look like effects taken directly from Star Wars (but aren't), was all done so well. George Lucas should be proud.Seth McFarlane and his team put a great deal of effort into making this a quality and hysterical revamp of a Lucas classic. You can't get the full experience until you see it on DVD, though. Seth, you're a freaking genius.

I have never seen anything like the two-part STAR WARS spoof that FAMILY GUY trotted out for its latest season premier. If this show wasn't light-years ahead of THE SIMPSONS already, it surely was with this incredible saga. I cannot imagine how many weeks or months went into piecing this mini-epic together. The plot has FAMILY GUY patriarch Peter Griffin (voiced by show creator Seth McFarlane) telling his family a variation on the original Star Wars story with himself as Han Solo and everyone he knows standing in for the other characters. His wife, for instance, is Princess Leia, and their dog is Chewbaca. Baby Stewie is Darth Vader, of all people. Keep in mind FAMILY GUY is a Fox show, and 20th Century Fox owns the STAR WARS movies, so McFarlane was able to avail himself of music, sound effects and images from the original STAR WARS movie. The seamless integration of these authentic STAR WARS bits in this cartoon turns this two-parter from an ordinary TV cartoon into something else entirely. If you haven't seen this, make sure you watch for it. It marks a turning point in the history of TV cartooning. Obviously, subsequent episodes will never be able to live up to it, but they need not. I think McFarlane wanted to kick THE SIMPSONS' ass for the season starter. If you saw the season starter for THE SIMPSONS, I am sure you will agree. A sidenote: When Peter has finished spinning his STAR WARS yarn, he and son Chris, voiced by the highly versatile Seth Green, argue briefly but sharply about a Cartoon Network show called ROBOT CHICKEN. Chris, who loves the show, points out ROBOT CHICKEN did a spoof of STAR WARS long before FAMILY GUY's version, while Peter disdains and dismisses and insults ROBOT CHICKEN. Green is the creator of ROBOT CHICKEN. Talk about an inside joke. Maybe the greatest inside joke ever perpetuated. What a perfect ending to a perfect yarn.