Family Guy’s Star Wars Spoof ‘It’s a Trap!’ Comes to Blu-ray
If you enjoyed the first two Family Guy Star Wars spoofs (Blue Harvest and Something Something Dark Side) like me, then you will love the final installment in the saga, It’s a Trap! I’ve always been impressed with how much effort the Family Guy team puts into matching the source movies down to the smallest details such as the escape from the Death Star scene from Star Wars where the Millennium Falcon evades a TIE Fighter. Even the editing is dead on accurate which thrills the inner Star Wars geek in me. It doesn’t hurt that George Lucas has generously instructed Lucasfilm to provide any assistance or material they need to pull these spoofs off. When you combine authentic sound effects and music from Lucasfilm with the trademarked off the wall humor Family Guy is known for, you have a hilariously fun ride that lovingly skewers the Star Wars saga. Check out the full press release below:
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 26, 2010) – Return to the Grffins’ version of that galaxy far, far away as their freakin’ sweet saga continues with “Family Guy: It’s A Trap!” – arriving exclusively on Blu-ray and DVD December 21 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. In the third installment of the hilarious Star Wars satire – following 2005’s “Family Guy: Blue Harvest” and last year’s “Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side“ – the Griffins reprise their intergalactic roles in an outrageous retelling of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Fans received an early peak of the epic farce at San Diego Comic-Con as Seth MacFarlane previewed 10 minutes of “Family Guy: It’s A Trap!” during the “Family Guy” panel this past weekend.
In this spectacular and offensively uproarious final chapter, Luke Skywalker (Chris) and Princess Leia (Lois) must travel to Tatooine to free Han Solo (Peter) by infiltrating the wretched stronghold of Jabba the Hutt (Joe), the galaxy’s most loathsome and dreadful gangster. Once reunited, the Rebels team up with a tribe of Ewoks to combat the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor. Meanwhile the Emperor (Carter Pewterschmidt) and Darth Vader (Stewie) conspire to turn Luke to the dark side, and young Skywalker is determined to rekindle the spirit of the Jedi within his father. The Galactic Civil War has never been more outrageous, as the Rebel forces gather to attack the seemingly defenseless and incomplete second Death Star in the battle that will determine the fate of the galaxy.
Adding to the fun, “Family Guy: It’s A Trap!” is loaded with hysterical cameo voice spots – including Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn reprising their roles from “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Adam West (“Batman”), Carrie Fisher (Star Wars Trilogy) and conservative talk radio juggernaut Rush Limbaugh as the voice of the large carnivorous reptomammal, the Rancor.
“The fan base for “Family Guy” and Star Wars, both enthusiastic, have embraced the first two hilarious spoofs,” said Mike Dunn, President, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. “Bringing the distinctive storylines together for the trilogy of parodies has been enormously successful and lends itself to create unique home entertainment releases.”
As an added bonus, “Family Guy: It’s A Trap!” will also be available in Blu-ray and DVD triple-packs featuring all the “Family Guy” Star Wars spoofs…the perfect gift for the holiday season.
Pre-order your copy today and pick up the previous spoofs if you haven’t seen them!
I absolutely cannot wait for this one! I had tears coming out of my eyes from “Something, Something, Something Dark Side.” I hadn’t laughed that hard in a long time. Brilliant stuff!
Gregg have you seen the Robot Chicken Star Wars spoofs? Those are hilarious too. The last one about killed me.
I’ve seen some. My favorite (thus far) has been the Imperial officers telling the new guy to play along with the guy in the black suit who thinks he can choke people with his mind.
Despite being the biggest Star Wars fan I know 🙂 and a big Family Guy fan, I cannot get into these spoofs. I appreciate the SW interjections in the individual episodes, but a whole episode devoted to Star Wars is just too much, for me. Okay… throw your stones now 🙂
Your whole premise is wrong to begin with as you know me so you are obviously not the biggest Star Wars fan you know! You should take another look at both the Family Guy and the Robot Chicken spoofs because both of them had some pretty funny parts.
@Sean. When you claim that you had worked a second job just to feed your Star Wars habits and have over ten grand worth of museum replica lightsabers sitting on a bookshelf, then we’ll talk. 🙂
LOL Ok one day we will battle it out by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit! Then we will know who is the Master and who is the Apprentice. I will be honored to take you on as my Padawan. 🙂
As long as u are okay with the padawan having more lightsaber hilts than his master.
Sure rub it in!! That’s ok. The padawan should be the one to carry all the equipment!