The creator of Family Guy, and American dad is back at it again! But really he is. With, “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” which was just barely released May 12th.
I’m going to get this out of the way right now, if you don’t like fart jokes this is not for you. I have never been so heavily marauded with fart jokes in all my years It isn’t necessarily a bad thing it just needs to be your type of thing.
Next, If you like family guy, I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t like this. It is essentially the cut too’s from the show with a wider variety of characters, that are not inhibited by television broadcast standards of vulgarity. To be honest though, I think I am a fan of the censorship. I think it keeps them on their toes looking for ways to push the envelope, but when it isn’t there it turns into jokes that are geared even more to shock value. I was surprised to see how many jokes reverted to people shitting on the screen.
The biggest problem with shock value is it’s so much a matter of taste. Whereas I don’t think fart jokes are all that funny, I find religious lasciviousness to be the bee’s knees, and there was plenty of that going around as well. Which is one thing I will give this cavalcade of comedy credit for, which is that it crossed a lot of different lines, so you are likely to find something that will fit your sense of humor in it. Plus, I don’t think beer would hurt. You should be drinking before you start it though because it isn’t long enough to get drunk during.
It feels kind of like watching a comic strip. All of the jokes are self contained in 50 different segments, and some of them are pretty funny. I particularly liked a segment called, “Things You Never Hear”, and there was another segment that was called “Sex with” that had a few really funny moments in them as well. There were some segments that were recurring throughout the show that I thought were leading somewhere but didn’t have a payoff, but other then that it didn’t feel like a total waste of time. Conceptually I think this piece was sound, I like the idea of compiling 50 one liners into a movie, that doesn’t have any sort of narrative whatsoever.
On a scale of one to ten, it isn’t worth my time to rate it, it was fun and that’s all it needed to be. I personally watched the blu-ray of this movie, but the disc is bare-bones, and it’s just a cartoon so I wouldn’t really demand you spend extra money on the blu-ray, but since the blu-ray is selling for nearly the same price you might as well splurge. If you are a fan of Robot Chicken, Family Guy, and American Dad, I don’t think you will be disappointed with purchasing this. I have a feeling that I have some robot friends that are going to enjoy this ten times more then I did.