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It's broad silliness, rather than biting political satire, but it never feels too cheesy.

Comedy perfection.

It's A Trap! is unquestionably Family Guy's best-looking Star Wars special (and the first to be made in widescreen), but... there are just too many lazy jokes.

The parody startS to feel as though it is being stretched very thin.

Cinema is full of monsters, but few in recent memory have been so capable of eliciting our sympathy and understanding.

The script depends on the pieces fitting together at the right time in the right places, ignoring daft coincidence and ludicrous possibilities

The tone may be cheeky and playful, but it is always affectionately so.

Often there is a concept that positively zings, but then has little follow-through.

Severe editing might have been a better solution for this hit-and-miss affair.

If this sounds like a corn fed carbon copy of a Debbie Reynolds standard, it's not

This scatter-shot approach to comedy has all the sophistication of sticking a 12-bore into a crowd and pulling the trigger. Sure, you're going to hit everyone, but it's not very clever.

In spite of its potty-mouthed shock tactics, Ted is enjoyable fluff, nothing more, nothing less.