Family Guy Movie Coming Soon?
By Brendon Connelly/May 5, 2009 7:00 pm EST
So here’s McFarlane on the Family Guy movie:
Inevitable, really, I suppose. There have been feature length Family Guy DVDs before, but to the best of my knowledge they were effectively multiple episodes stitched together, as with the Futurama releases of the last twelve months or so.
Personally, I’m with Cartoon Brew’s Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi on the subject of Family Guy and Seth McFarlane’s other TV shows – basically, that they’re utterly dreadful and that culture would be better served by broadcasting white noise in their place – but I do know they have their fans. Indeed, Family Guy ranks alongside the Snakes on a Plane reshoots and Firefly spin off Serenity as a testament to fan power in action as the show was canceled and then recommissioned after tremendous sales on DVD.
One of the criticism most frequently levelled against Family Guy is that it steals its jokes from other, better shows and that one is pretty much undeniable. Plenty of other animators hate the show too – indeed, there’s a Wikipedia page dedicated to folk’s dislike of Family Guy. You don’t see that for every show now, do you?
