Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

Family Guy does Star Wars in this fully Lucas-endorsed crossover, complete with music and crawl ("It is a time of civil war, and renegade paragraphs floating through space...."). A more or less scene for scene retelling of A New Hope with the Griffins and their neighbours filling in for the original cast, it mostly steers clear of obvious jokes, focussing instead on the minutiae and budgetary constraints of working on the Death Star (Kevin Smith is smiling somewhere) and poking gentle fun at the plot flaws that litter the movie - "Couldn't we just board it up?" asks Vader of the small hole that allows the space station's destruction. It's only 45 minutes, but it's hilarious throughout and the casting sits naturally and comfortably (Stewie as Vader, Brian as Chewie, Lois as Leia, Chris as Luke), though it's a bit of a stretch buying Peter as Han Solo. And just wait til you see what they do with poor Meg. [Paul Greenwood]