I'll admit right out that I'm not the world's biggest Family Guy fan. In fact, the show really rubbed me the wrong way when it first premiered, what, 6 years ago? I figured it was just a Simpsons clone that wouldn't last.

Luckily, as the show progressed, I was proven wrong. I actually grew to like Family Guy and realized it had its own, very different brand of humor. I didn't always think the show's timing was quite right -- it seemed to move too fast for the jokes to really have an impact, but it still had its moments. The figure I usually quoted people was 50%. That is, it's funny about that much of the time. Which, compared to other stuff is pretty high marks, but it still means that half the time, you can expect the jokes to fall flat.

Which brings me to this disc, an "uncensored movie" which really seems to amount to "three unaired episodes stuck together with some cursing added in." It's funny about 1 percent of the time, if it's lucky. Actually I made sure to keep a tally of the number of times something I thought remotely funny took place during this thing's 85-minute-or-so runtime. I ended up with three. Not three times I laughed, mind you, because I didn't do that at all. Just three occasions that something was kind of conceptually funny.

And that's a crying shame, because this actually had some potential. The "A" story, the one where Stewie meets himself in the future, actually isn't a half-bad premise. Unfortunately, the execution doesn't work nearly as well, as scenes showing the milksoppish demeanor of adult Stewie drag on far beyond where they ought to. Jokes about Parade magazine (one of the three in the tally) notwithstanding, adult Stewie is a lot less compelling than he should be/is made out to be. For each of the rest of the family's future incarnations, the less said the better.

The two "B" stories (the premises for the other two unaired episodes, presumably) concern Peter getting his own segment on the local news and an effort to teach Chris and Meg about romance. Too bad they don't connect with the main story in any discernable way or else they might have actually had a reason to be there.

The whole fiasco is bookended by two segments which show the characters celebrating the debut of their movie. Here's all I have to say about it: if the ideas of a drunk, cursing mother acting entirely out of character or perhaps a presumably educated Asian reporter degenerating into "me-love-you-long-time" stereotypical behavior for no apparent reason are on their face hilariously funny to you, by all means go out and buy this disc.

If you have taste, though, I'm sure you'll understand why it deserves an F. --------