Hello there Star Wars fans for this review I thought i'd do something a little bit different instead of reviewing one animated series i'd instead take a look three episodes that parody the original Star Wars saga so here is my review of Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: The Family Guy Trilogy.
The basic premise of each of these specials is the power goes out in the Griffins house and in order to stop themselves from being bored Peter tells them the story of each of the films. I have to say that I was really shocked at how well each of these episodes tell the respective stories of each of the films and they do it in more than half the time of the original films.
Starring in the specials are Peter Griffin as Han Solo , Brian Griffin as Chewbacca , Stewie Griffin as Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker , Lois Griffin as Princess Leia , Chris Griffin as Luke Skywalker , Meg Griffin as the Dianoga / the Exogorth / the Sarlacc , Cleveland Brown as R2-D2 and Herbert as Obi-Wan Kenobi. I know I usually credit the main actors here but I figure that alot of people would have seen the show by now that I might as well as credit the characters and in that regard casting Stewie as Darth Vader is freaking perfect since he's an evil baby anyway.
I really do wish that the Family Guy team would make more Star Wars parodies but tho since the house of mouse has a very tight grip on the franchise that does seem unlikely which is a huge shame because they could have had a lot of fun making fun out of the recent movies and have the characters comment on things that the fans of the franchise say when those movies come out.
As far as I can work out the animation for the specials was done by Fox Television Animation there is a chance I might be wrong tho but the animation in the specials I thought was really well done the animation isn't feature length film good but for three hour long specials it actually looks better then the animation in the actual series and for the third special It's A Trap! they actually use some live action footage which at times can be blended really well other times it's just looks awkward.
What helps make the final special all the more important is the fact that the late Carrie Fisher has a role in it as her family Guy character Angela shows up as Mon Mothma so if you Star Wars fans want to hear Princess Leia herself give a rousing speech to this specials version of Leia then you have to check out It's A Trap!.
Now i'm not sure how much of this is true or not but the Family Guy team didn't have that much of a hard time getting George Lucas to give them permission to spoof what is ultimately his legacy because he's recorded every single episode of Family Guy so they basically just went up there with i'm hoping a story outline for the first special and he just went "yeah that's cool you have my permission" or at least that's how it went down in my head.
For some reason this kind of annoys me about this trilogy but they have the character of Joe play three different characters he plays Biggs Darklighter in "Blue Harvest" , the probe droid in the opening of "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" and Jabba in "It's A Trap!" why couldn't he have switched roles with someone like Cleveland and play R2.
Out of all three specials i'd say that Something, Something, Something, Dark Side is easily the funniest one not that the other two aren't funny it's just that in my opinion the second special had funnier jokes in it but not all of the jokes in all three specials are good for example in the second special they repeat the knee gag from an earlier episode which just isn't as funny and there's a Chewbacca joke in "It's A Trap" which just isn't funny at all.
Overall the trilogy isn't that bad and they do a good job of maintaining the respective storylines of each film while adding in some humor but at the same time there were certain aspects that could have been better and so this trilogy of episodes score a 8.5 out of 10 from me.