Last Stop in Spoof City

While doing some last minute Christmas shopping today, we nabbed the third installment in Family Guy's Star Wars spoof trilogy, It's A Trap. If you haven't caught the first two films in this threesome, do yourself a favor and get a hold of them. Star Wars and Family Guy are a match made in fanboy (and pseudo-fangirl) heaven.

Despite Seth MacFarlane's efforts to convince us to "lower [our] expectations" for this final chapter, we agreed that it was just as much a hit as its predecessors, Blue Harvest and Something, Something, Something Dark Side. In true Family Guy tradition, this film was extremely self-aware and chock full of pop culture references. Nothing was off limits and as usual Seth Green is the brunt of quite a few jokes.

All of our favorite Family Guy characters reprise their roles as the all-too-well-known Star Wars crew.  For the first time in the spoofilogy characters from American Dad! and The Cleveland Show made appearances, including the bears as the Ewoks.  Patrick Stewart and Anne Hathaway even leant their voices to the cause. This one makes for a fun ride, and a quick romp through Return of the Jedi.  To the uninitiated all three of the films might be a little confusing, but also half the references in the entire Family Guy series might be confusing to those people.

It should be noted though that even those the movies are animated, and the show is on primetime, the language sometimes gets into the R-rated area, almost shockingly at times.  But even then these movies are lighthearted takes on the original Star Wars trilogy.  No word on if they're going to make the prequels.

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