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The entire first half of the movie is the family guy you love. Fart Jokes, Random Flashbacks, and how horses are bad people. With Character appearances such as the Greased Up Deaf guy, Randy Newman, Evil Monkey, and others, why else would you not want to see it?

However, the second half is where it truly gets into Stewie's story, no spoilers here, but you'll notice towards the end that a lot of loose ends are left...loose. Also, the ending (At least when it says "The End") is slightly lackluster. But I only noticed this on my second time through.

Other than that, this movie is beautifully done and features probably the most loved character from all the shows...The Greased Up Deaf Guy.

In conclusion, one of the funniest movies out there, but plan on sharing it among friends, because you might not be watching it more than once.

Thanks Seth Macfarlane for this freakin' awesome movie!

PS: I was disappointed that Meg's sex scene was cut out. It was so tastefully done!

It was weird watching this movie because I've seen nearly every episode of "Family Guy" and it was easy to recognize this movie as being adapted into three episodes of the TV show. Now there was enough material here for four episodes, but they trimmed it down to three in the actual show. I admit that I'm not a fan of "Family Guy", but this was still enjoyable. Besides, it wasn't really until later that "Family Guy" became particularly hated. I counted 45 cutaway gags in this movie! What's interesting here is that there are a lot of things that really do build up.

The thing was, I didn't get a feeling that this was epic enough for a movie. It still didn't seem large scale. Of course, it probably was better than most episodes of the actual show. There are lots of funny little lines here and there. I especially love the opening sequence where they talk about how they're rolling out the red carpet for a direct to video movie. With all the awful direct to video movies I've seen this month, this was quite refreshing. It has some good satire in it and it doesn't really seem like "Family Guy" will ever get a theatrically released movie, unlike "My Little Pony", hee hee. ***

Let me start by saying that i am a HUGE Family Guy fan. I love it. Watch it everyday.But... I Was rather disappointed with "Stewie Griffin:The Untold Story".I was really expecting a riot; a stitchfest - not what i got... I went out and bought it the day it came out on DVD, I got home and put it on right away but it didn't impress me like i thought it would. It lacked the charm that the TV show has, it just is not the same, I liked it but about half-way through i wanted to start channel surfing you know, got a bit tedious. It had some very funny jokes and it made me chuckle a few times but it didn't have me in stitches like the show does. In summary - It was okay - 6/10 stars.

I have no idea why an enormous bunch of Family Guy lovers are disappointed with this movie. The movie is just like the show. It's a bunch of one liners with the plot taking backseat to these amazingly written one liners.

Many people in the boards are saying don't put a 10 down because no movie deserves a 10. It's not about comparing it to the Godfather like some people have written, its about the value of how you view the movie in your opinion.

Why buy it? Why watch it? because you want to laugh at what Family Guy does best... roll toilet humor and super highbrow into a small plot that doesn't matter in the end.

This movie is laced with extremely funny references, and lowbrow and highbrow humor. If your looking for more of a story line, watch the simpsons, if your looking complete insanity, watch South Park.

I am a fan of the series, although I would not consider myself a huge fan. I was lucky enough to see this movie before it came out and was not disappointed. Yes, there is fouler language than usual, but it made the movie that much funnier. The use of the F word was sprinkled throughout but it was always used in the right places and only for comedic value, not just to have it in there. There are some classic quotes that will enter the English language regularly I'm sure. They referenced some movies such as Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc. I have to admit my favorite was the scene from Ferris Bueller's day off. The movie continued to include most of the characters from the series, even the minute ones that only show themselves here and there. The story was complete, and interesting and honestly kept you laughing the whole time. There was enough story to keep you interested and it was not choppy. It really ran smoothly and didn't make you wonder why something was happening. It truly ran like a longer episode. This is a must not miss for anyone who watches the series and thinks that it is amusing!

Having seen hell, Stewie decides to be nice but it is not long before the façade crumbles and instead he decides to spend his days drunk. Brian attempts to teach him a lesson but only succeeds in losing Peter his "normal guy complaining about trivial issues" job on the local cable station. Meanwhile Lois bemoans her lack of privacy and tries to get their kids into the opposite sex to get them out of the house more often. Distracted, they don't spot that Stewie and Brian have joined Quagmire's Cross "Cuntry" trip in a quest to find Stewie's real father.

As a fan of the series I tuned in to the film hoping for it to be the quality of the series. After a slow start I twigged that this was really three episodes woven together with some supporting material which, as someone who enjoys the series shouldn't have been a problem. All the best bits of the series are there in the target-audience film and cultural reference (the two Star Wars ones were my favourite) as well as imaginative crudity. I laughed out loud several times even though the actual plot was consistently pretty weak across the whole film. This is a valid criticism because of the length of the film.

With the episodes the asides ("like the time I") come thick and fast and easily cover the plot to the point where nobody watches for the stories, just the laughs. However with the film the hits are spread a bit thinner and as a result it does occasionally feel a bit baggy (giggly) and I remember sometimes waiting for the next laugh. So I agree with those fans that thought this was not as good as the series, not because I'm a precious fanboy with unrealistic expectations and a rose-tinted memory but because it didn't entertain me as much as I would have liked.

That said I'm glad I watched it and it did enough for me as I imagine it will do for those who enjoy the series. Viewers will rightly feel that it could have been funnier or more consistent but with a handful of great moments and a scattering of good ones it is still worth a look.

Much like the series, the "Family Guy"-movie was just okay and nothing more. There are a few amusing jokes and mostly the whole thing is just entertaining enough to keep watching. This show's problem has always been its lack of originality and one has to say that South Park hit the nail on the head when they made fun of the lazy writing in two of its recent episodes. "Family Guy" does mostly consist of completely random jokes that add nothing to the storyline, like a throwaway version of "The Simpsons". Once you see this formula through the whole "Do you remember when Peter did this and that"-jokes just become annoying.

Consequently "Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story" isn't so much a real "Family Guy"-movie but rather a stretched version of a regular episode that's built around countless random joke-sequences. If you're a huge fan of the show you're probably going to enjoy the movie. Personally, I think the "South Park" and even the "Beavis and Butt-Head" makers succeeded much better in producing actual movies for their respective franchises. I certainly hope "The Simpsons" motion picture will not just seem like an expanded version of a TV episode like this movie does.

That, however, is not a bad thing...to many times in these situations the people who make the show may try to do something completely different and it really isn't as good as the show, but here it is. Though really, it is only three unaired episodes of the show with a movie premier scene to bookend them. The first two of these episodes are really funny, with the second stint being my favorite, I just about died at the spider man joke and the thundercats one. The third act is funny, but not quite up to the first two. The main point of the storyline is Stewie as the three episodes sort of have the same theme to them and it looks like it was sort of a three parter with two and three being more of the loop than the first one. Stewie has a near death experience, not only that he has seen a man that looks just like him on the television and he is convinced that it is his real father rather than Peter and this sends him and Brian on a trip to San Francisco. Once there a startling (well not startling by this show's standards) is made. Very funny overall, if you like the show you should enjoy this. My main complaint is that it is supposedly uncensored...well if that is the case why is the curse words beeped out?

I am a big Gamily Guy fan, let me say that first. When I first saw this movie I thought it was absolutely great. It was so funny, or so I thought. When I really thought about it, this was nothing but three family guy episodes put together to be a movie. And there was so much advertising saying how uncut it would be, but it really wasn't that uncut at all. It was really just like I said before...3 Family Guy episodes. I will admit it had its funny parts, but it wasn't funny enough. I've seen the South Park:Bigger,Longer,Uncut movie and that was fantastic! The Simpsons movie was awesome. This wasn't a movie, just basically 90 minutes of new material. I know that a REAL Family Guy movie would totally rule the other I named above. But this movie is average at best. Rent it or borrow it from a friend. Or wait until it come on t.v.

I recently saw this and I must confess it was awesome. There is heavy Stewie content, and Lois is funnier than I have ever seen; the intro. alone had me on the floor. The funniest episodes ever of family guy have been based on interactions between Brian and Stewie, which MacFarlane delivers. The movie is comparable to a few episodes of the show strung together, but will be enjoyed whether you're a fan or not. To top it off, the "cameos" of well known characters adds an ambiance that Family Guy aficionados will love (much like the first episode of the 2005 season). Although I'm a long time fan of the show, I am usually very pessimistic. However, the only criticism I can conjure up is that I wanted more when the movie ended.

This movie in it's way is described in 1 word... meh. knowing family guy and a fan of it, i was kinda disappointed at it a bit. i would of thought it would be like really funny and such but i've only laughed about a maximum of 6 times out of the whole movie. the cast is done very well and delivers what family guy fans are looking for; and about that uncensored thing.. wtf is with the dubbing of the language? isn't suppost to be uncensored and not on TV. i finally found out how to get it to make it not dubbed by going to the special features to turn it off and on, and what not. the plot was very good also. All in all it was a good movie, with some flaws. die hard fans of family guy will go wild for it, but i'm not that kinda person. 6/10 rent it first if your not sure.

"You know what my grinds my gears" is legendary! I love this movie probably seen a hundred times which is nuts. One liners that are superb, jokes that are spot on, the time travel aspect is brilliant, and I get a heartwarming feeling inside. So much lols, I'm so satisfied with everything.

This movie has a lot of fans, as expected. But there's a lot of people comparing it to the South Park Movie and I feel it's a fair comparison. Does it match up to Bigger, Longer and Uncut? No. For the simple reason that the South Park movie had a plot, a story and a point to make. It was a movie that spoke loudly against censorship and promoted free speech. The Family Guy movie just uses the 'uncut' slogan as a way of dragging in more vulgar humor.

Originally conceived as a movie and then broken up into 3 individual episodes for airing on TV, the movie comes in 3 very noticeable parts. As separate episodes there's no real story at all and nothing to make you catch it again the next week because loads of little sub-plots that begin are never finished. There is a slight bias of gearing most of these stories in Stewie's direction but not so much that the movie should be named after him. Every half hour the it goes in a new direction and we never feel like we're getting anywhere with other than into another thing to make fun of. I can't really give a breakdown of the movie or the main characters involved as it just goes everywhere and all over the place. So much more could have become of a feature length Family Guy but Seth McFarlane and Co. do nothing with it and seize no opportunity other than swearing and racier humor.

However it is very funny and there are some classic moments that will have you in suffocating fits of laughter, such as the wacky, waving, inflatable, arm-flailing tube man commercial, the Thundercats scene, Britney Spears getting burned alive, the scene that dumps on the shoddy morals and ethics of Blockbuster Video, the restaurant with Tom Tucker's private booth and...well pretty much everything is spot on. But this scatter-shot approach to comedy has all the sophistication of sticking a shotgun into a crowd and pulling the trigger. Sure you're going to hit everyone but it's not very clever.

But Family Guy was never about subtlety or holding back on the mayhem. If anything it's the modern day equivalent of the Looney Tunes. Anyone who hoped for something big or king-sized from this 88-minute movie will be sorely disappointed at the low-aiming nature of it. It succeeds at exactly what it wants to do; it makes us laugh hysterically. It could/should have been more. It all depends on what you expect from an animated TV show turned movie.

It's still a billion times better than Pokemon: The Movie, though that's hardly a huge compliment.

I wouldn't call myself an avid viewer of Family Guy. In fact, I've only really watched one season (on DVD) and Stewie Griffin: the Untold Story. I laughed, I snored. About halfway into the movie, if even that, I dozed off. I literally went unconscious. My reasoning for this is that these kind of slapstick humor shows are intended to be viewed in made-for-television 20 minute segments, not a duration of an hour and a half. To endure the same "like this one time" jokes (cue reenactment of character's said past experience with humorous yet often dull comedic gesture) and perhaps pointless theme for an entirety of 90 minutes is a little much. I do very well believe that shortening the length of such a feature, being in the dumb but sometimes entertaining genre, would have caught my attention as the viewer. In my opinion, the makers of Family Guy would have been better off producing a compilation of episodes where Stewie's antics stole the spotlight.. but that's pretty much every episode, right?

If you're a fan of the show, you should know exactly what to expect here: rapid-fire gags. As usual, some of it falls flat--but the bits that work are funny enough to make this 80-something minute of a "movie" worth watching. There isn't much of a story, nor should there be. Just joke after joke. I was hoping that since it was straight to video and unrated, it would be more tasteless and raunchy, but alas, since this was originally made for TV, you won't find anything incredibly risqué. Oh yeah, and the moron DVD designers have the EDITED version set as the default (!!). Why they would even include a censored version, let alone set it as the default, is beyond me; but make sure you click on "languages" and choose "uncut" the first time you watch. I didn't, and after I figured it out, I was pretty p***ed off.

Released straight to video, "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!" is a barrel of laughs! Any Family Guy fan will enjoy this movie. Even though I'm not the biggest fan, I enjoy the Stewie jokes and bless one of my friends, he was kind enough to buy this for my belated birthday present. I just couldn't stop laughing, this was just so funny. I was a little surprised though, since it was released straight to video, they bleeped some of the swear words. But it's still a lot of fun to watch and the parodies are great. I would highly recommend this if you are a fan of Family Guy or at least like the jokes.

10/10

I'm not a huge fan of "Family Guy" (which airs on the Fox network) primarily because I never get a chance to watch it. The few episodes I have seen amused and entertained me, and I could understand the cult appeal - it's got everything cult shows need to succeed.

When I heard a movie was coming out - and an unrated movie, nonetheless - I was rather interested because "Family Guy" is known on television for its raunchy pushing of boundaries in terms of content (a family guide listed it as one of the most detestable shows on TV with themes of incest, bestiality, prostitution, sex, drugs, violence, etc. - their list made me laugh so much, it pretty much listed everything!).

Anyway, the so-called "Unrated" edition of "Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story" is not all that raunchy...at all. If you've seen the TV show, this is basically just three episodes with a few swear words thrown in.

Frankly, I'm glad they didn't go over-the-top with their limitless potential (there isn't frequent cursing, sex, nudity, etc.) BUT...I think it could have used more of an edge - there are only a few F-words in the entire movie and I was wondering why on earth they even bothered marketing it as "Unrated"; wow, a cartoon with swearing, that's so unheard of! *Cough "South Park: BL&U" cough* The film follows the adventures of misunderstood baby genius Stewie Griffin to find his father in San Francisco. He and Brian the talking dog team up with the constantly sexually-driven next door neighbor on his "Cross-Country" (spelled without an "o") quest to "bang a woman in each state." Stewie and Brian's mishaps elevate into a huge mess and meanwhile Peter has trials and tribulations of his own, beginning with becoming the presenter at a news station as part of a "You Know What Grinds My Gears?" segment.

Let me make something clear - I liked this. Like the TV show, it entertained me. I'm not going to take the easy route and be a hater like other "Simpsons" fans - I know they all hate "Family Guy" and Trey Parker and Matt Stone said it's "garbage" and insulting to them when "FG" even mentions them, but I think as far as animated shows go it is rather entertaining.

I just think the film could have been more daring, especially given its Unrated tag, which in this case seems more like a lazy marketing scheme (like all those other Fox "unrated" re-releases such as AvP, Man on Fire, I Robot, etc.).

Bottom line: If you like the TV show, you'll like this, maybe really like it. If you don't like the TV show...stay away.

Originally released on dvd as a standalone film, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was later added to the official episode canon of Family Guy. The story is interesting enough, it's essentially an 80 minute "Road to" episode. When run in syndication, it's split up into three episodes, which makes sense.

It definitely wasnt just a cash grab, as these episodes are only available on this dvd. Therefore, if you're a dvd collector of the series, you'll be happy. All of the same sort of cutaways and gags are used here, as in the TV show, so the continuity is there. As well as the cast and crew. It makes sense though since it's actually part of the shows canon.

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...

Well, it was good, but there are a couple of things that could have been better.

1. They made this movie waaaaaaay to early. It canceled in 2002 and only came uncanceled in 2005 when they made this. The Simpsons movie was made after 20 years of airing the show.

2. The plot was hard to understand. I mean, Stewie was in the present and future. I'm not gonna explain. If you haven't seen it you would not get it at all.

3. Stewie is 1, right? Then he goes 30 years in time, but people say that he's 35, right? So if its 30 years ahead, he'd only be 31, right? It makes no sense. But no matter.

Well, i liked the movie. Its about $20 dollars here in Canada. Its cheap. I would suggest it to anyone who likes odd humor.

I actually enjoyed this one way more than I expected the comedy didn't always land but had a lot of good stuff. The first act felt mostly like another family guy episode stapled on to the movie but it was still entertaining enough. Wouldn't go far enough to really recommend to watch but there is far worse options than this movie.

To everyone who loves Family Guy go out and buy this movie and show Seth Macfarlane and company that we appreciate their hard work and dedication to a show that has been through hell when it came to working with Fox! And also thank Adult Swim for picking up the show when no one else would. This movie rocked entirely hard like I knew it would, I have been a HUGE fan since I first saw the show and when Fox canceled it I was livid I stopped watching Fox until they either picked up the show or Adult Swim picked it up for new episodes but since Fox realized they messed up they rectified the problem (my personal opinion was to not give them a second chance but maybe this time around they won't cancel the show again. so Bottom line add this movie to your DVD collection an absolute A++++++ movie.

Thank you for listening to my rant, MasterChief7999

The idea is simple: if you like the show, you'll like this. If you don't like the show, you won't like this. It's just that simple.

A bootlegged copy of the movie is shown during the local newscast... Stewie's Untold Story! In it, Stewie and family go through the usual set of adventures, including some incidents at a pool while learning to swim, and then suddenly Stewie sees a man with the likeness of himself on television... and now he's preoccupied with the thought that Peter is way too stupid to be his father, and he must find this man who is obviously his real father.

Since it isn't a televised show but a straight-to-DVD movie, this thing should have been done a little differently methinks. The creators now had an opportunity to go in and make the gags and stuff go way beyond the reserve they needed for the television censors. Thus I was disappointed to see mostly that really nothing changed except maybe a few more curse-words... except they were bleeped out too... why? Still, it had some very neat laughs and the usual allusions to other works--my favorite part--plus we get to see the Scary Monkey outside of the house for once. As I said above, if you're a fan of Family Guy...

--PolarisDiB

I'm sure fans of the resurrected Fox television show Family Guy ate up this feature length installment with a fork and knife. The show's pop-culture referencing, off-kilter pace, and dark humor are there in spades, but that does not help shake the feeling this straight-to-DVD knockoff often feels like a cheap way of cashing in on the show's second wind with this slightly-more-unhinged format. While there are a handful of hilarious moments, the overall runtime does find the laugh factor becoming more spread out compared to a compressed 25 minute episode. There is a main focus on toddler-menace Stewie's questionable future, but that is told simply when sight gags and overdone flashbacks are exhausted. It certainly is not terrible, it just feels like more of a thank-you to fans then a bona-fide movie.