Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane brings his boundary-pushing brand of humor to the big screen for the first time as writer, director and voice star of TED. In the live action/CG-animated comedy, he tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish…and has refused to leave his side ever since. Watch the red-band, NSFW trailer.
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel McHale and Seth MacFarlane as Ted, TED will be in theaters July 13.
Family Guy took the Griffin family on the road in celebration of its 10th anniversary for a 10 city, one night only, exclusive midnight viewing in theaters on September 15, 2011. The “Something, Something, Something Anniversary” Screening event featured an exclusive episode and never-before-seen footage, as well as trivia and special DVD and merchandise giveaways.
Family Guy fans, from the hardcore to the casual, witnessed an exclusive first episode of the new season, “Lottery Fever,” and never-before-seen footage, and also participated in trivia games complete with special DVD and merchandise giveaways. They experienced one of the most popular episodes in Family Guy history, “Road to the Multiverse,” as selected by fans on Facebook, as well as a not-yet-released 22-minute bonus feature from the upcoming Family Guy Volume 9 DVD slated to hit store shelves December 13 entitled “History of the World,” a telling of the creation of earth from a Family Guy perspective.
Family Guy Volume 9 DVD is slated to hit store shelves December 13.
Seth Macfarlane is probably the most funniest dude still doing cartoon comedy stuff. He recently released the first season of his cartoon shorts on DVD. The episodes originally aired on youtube and became the most popular channel within 2 days of the series airing.
We are giving you guys a chance to win copies of this DVD, all you have to do is tell me if and why you dig Seth Macfarlanes stuff past or present. Here is a synpsis for the DVD:
From the creator of Family Guy and the co-creator of American Dad! Comes a brand-new animated series of pop culture parodies, skewered stories, and fabulously filthy fun nuggets. Uncensored, uninhibited and unbelievably hilarious, Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy is brimming with the kind of raunchy, twisted humor you can’t see on television no matter how hard you try. So sit back, veg out and enjoy the show. The possibilities are endless…and so are the laughs!
We will be picking the winners at random, so leave us a comment if you want your own copy of this dvd.
Let me start this review off by saying first and foremost I am NOT a fan of Seth Macfarlane. I am also not a big fan of cartoon’s as a whole, with the exception of Beavis and Butthead. However I must say that after watching this I was surprised at how funny SOME of the stuff was, but for the most part it falls short. There is a bunch of throwback to oldschool 80’s and 90’s cartoon/gaming, Quentin Tarantino, Optimus Prime, Jeff Goldblum, and Ted Nugent. Not to mention that Seth Green does a pretty great impression of Matthew Mcconaughey but not even that is enough to save this series.
The Blu-Ray/DVD is a series of shorts from his youtube web series, this being the “first season” of the ridiculously popular series. The series is very much just like Family Guy, it features a bunch of cut scenes of usually unrelated stuff strewn together. Each scene is separated by a black title and lasts a minute or two. I would compare this to alot like Robot Chicken only with animation, but 50 minutes of this just gets over bearing and repetitive.
My favorite sketch was the one with Mario saving the princess which you can see here:
The Disc:
The blu-ray is presented in the 1080 format, but it honestly doesnt look very much different than watching it in regular standard definition. I could almost guarentee this was just an upconverted standard definition disc that they scaled to be 1080p. The sound is pretty good but not the high definition sound I would have prefered on a blu-ray release.
There are bonus features on the disc but very few and mostly just lame. There is a feature on premiere party that is essentially just like something you would see before an MTV award show on the red carpet. Toss that with a still image gallery and that pretty much does it as far as special features go.
We don’t normally put clips like this up on the site. Â We don’t even really talk about television that much, but I’m guessing 9 out of 10 Movie Geeks are also huge fans of “The Family Guy”.
Well, last weeks episode did something amazing. Â Seth MacFarlane and crew took the audio of Christian Bale’s on-set explosion and dubbed in their show’s main character, Peter Griffin’s voice into the mix.
Check it out in case you missed it when it aired:
(Note: This is an uncensored clip from the show and definitely NSFW)
“Oh, you are gonna owe a fortune to the swear jar!”
With the success of the Simpson’s movie last year, you knew this wasn’t going to be far behind…The Family Guy Movie! Seth MacFarlane has announce that the movie based on the hit TV show will begin production in the next 12 months. MacFarlane has been planning the film for the past six months while working on the upcoming season of the TV series and spin-off show “The Cleveland Show”. Seth was quoted during an interview with TV Week “Doing the show is a seven-day a week process, so I don’t know how we will squeeze in a movie. But we will figure it out. I have an idea about what it will be. It is definitely something you wouldn’t be able to do on the show. That’s the only reason to do a movie.” Asked if there would be nudity and obscenities, Seth said, “Oh, yeah!”
Seth just don’t forget we are still waiting on another power outage at the Griffin Household so that we may see the Family guy version of Empire Strikes Back!
