The "baby" in a strange distorted version of an American family goes in search of his real father.
Cheap cartoons shouldn't really be an hour and half. Even "Family Guy" where the gags come thick and fast and have more hits than misses. Indeed - for me - this product was like eating a whole tub of my favourite ice-cream when I should really only have a small bowl.
I doubt anybody has the skill to describe this twisted, anything goes, family in which the dog and the baby talk and the father is an overweight idiot (with a constantly rewritten past) who loves pornography. The topic of two of the better jokes in this production. I won't even bother trying - because you have to see it to get it.
The major trouble I have is that it doesn't hang together as drama. It really only plays like an acted-out/drawn-out version of the spiel that would be played out (by voice) at a comedy club. Some good sight gags (a more realistic version of Bugs Bunny!) and also some grandiose stealing. The groping scene is straight from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
What makes me give this a seven (but no more) is the laziness of the project. They haven't come up with anything to justify calling this a movie (it is actually three episodes glued together) as they were probably too busy laughing at their own jokes and dreaming up ways to be more outrageous to bother with a proper plot. As dramatists they are third division and highly repetitive - they are flashback abusers of the first order.
Look at the early Python movies - bonkers, but they have a plot and development of sorts and a pay-off. This ends with a giant so what, what has anybody learnt, how is anybody different? They have just thrown things at the screen with no care about where, when or why.
However clever the gags (and some are classics) how can you justify buying a shoddy animation for the same price of state-of-the-art versions? Is shoddy animation part of the gag?
While DVD sales would suggest I am wrong - there is maybe three gags that I would watch again and smile at and there is no wonderful pop videos as in - say - Shrek or The Jungle Book. Maybe the final gag is on the easily pleased audience who seem happy to throw money at anything with the Family Guy name on it? Not a keeper for me - sorry...
Cheap cartoons shouldn't really be an hour and half. Even "Family Guy" where the gags come thick and fast and have more hits than misses. Indeed - for me - this product was like eating a whole tub of my favourite ice-cream when I should really only have a small bowl.
I doubt anybody has the skill to describe this twisted, anything goes, family in which the dog and the baby talk and the father is an overweight idiot (with a constantly rewritten past) who loves pornography. The topic of two of the better jokes in this production. I won't even bother trying - because you have to see it to get it.
The major trouble I have is that it doesn't hang together as drama. It really only plays like an acted-out/drawn-out version of the spiel that would be played out (by voice) at a comedy club. Some good sight gags (a more realistic version of Bugs Bunny!) and also some grandiose stealing. The groping scene is straight from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
What makes me give this a seven (but no more) is the laziness of the project. They haven't come up with anything to justify calling this a movie (it is actually three episodes glued together) as they were probably too busy laughing at their own jokes and dreaming up ways to be more outrageous to bother with a proper plot. As dramatists they are third division and highly repetitive - they are flashback abusers of the first order.
Look at the early Python movies - bonkers, but they have a plot and development of sorts and a pay-off. This ends with a giant so what, what has anybody learnt, how is anybody different? They have just thrown things at the screen with no care about where, when or why.
However clever the gags (and some are classics) how can you justify buying a shoddy animation for the same price of state-of-the-art versions? Is shoddy animation part of the gag?
While DVD sales would suggest I am wrong - there is maybe three gags that I would watch again and smile at and there is no wonderful pop videos as in - say - Shrek or The Jungle Book. Maybe the final gag is on the easily pleased audience who seem happy to throw money at anything with the Family Guy name on it? Not a keeper for me - sorry...