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Title: A big disappointment.
Review: I love Family Guy, so I was really looking forward to this movie. When I saw it, though ... yikes. Many of the jokes seem forced. The timing is often mediocre. Almost everyone goes inexplicably out of character at one point or another. The references to past episodes seem self-congratulatory rather than clever. And most of all, it's WAY WAY WAY TOO LONG.The middle third, written by Alex Borstein, is significantly better than the rest, but even that isn't up to the level of the best episodes. As for the outer thirds -- well, there are brilliant moments everywhere, but they're usually buried in second-rate hackery.
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