Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

Episodes of Family Guy never relied on a story (unlike for instance The Simpsons, Futurama and South Park), but on immediate comedy primarily involving visual gags and a murderous frequency of pop-culture references. So here we have a story vacuum stretched out to a feature-length movie. This means that in places we see forced attempts at humor from the creators, and they don’t always work. Not that there aren’t great gags here - there are, but they are mostly variations on scenes already seen in the TV series, and that just isn’t good enough. To add to things, the Griffin family is rather sidelined and the whole story revolves around Stewie which, surprisingly, isn’t a positive, because he doesn’t have very much at all in common with the “mother killer" from the series (which is in fact due to the “story" here). In essence, this is a completely pointless affair that does nothing to enrich the Family Guy world. (04.09.2006)