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"Family Guy" took on "Three Directors" in its latest episode, spoofing Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay to mixed results.

[Editor'south Note: The following review contains spoilers for "Family Guy" Season xvi, Episode 5, "3 Directors."]

At the terminate of iii back-to-back-to-back parodies of Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay's corresponding works, Peter Griffin asks Lois "which director affair was your favorite?" "Honestly, I didn't care for the episode," she says, right before the credits end, product titles pop up, and another episode of "Family Guy" fades into the ether with the nearly 300 others.

And if we're being honest, we're with Lois. "Three Directors" is introduced by Peter, speaking directly to camera, explaining that they decided to "ask" three Hollywood directors to tell their version of the aforementioned story: Peter gets fired.

It's not that the seemingly random spoofs from "the three who did non say no immediately" were unwanted; certain, the most contempo pic from any of them was Bay's "Transformers: The Final Knight" — and that was released more than four months ago — but their work is timeless and hands recognizable, so why not spend a random half-hour in Season sixteen lampooning creatively graphic violence and unnecessary 180-caste shots?

Well, for i, a lot of the targets were also easy. "Reservoir Dogs" parodies, homages, and general references have been done to death in the 25 years since its release, and "Family Guy" had zippo new to contribute. This is notwithstanding the show that thinks information technology's clever to say, "Hither's Christoph Waltz to fire you lot in a weird emphasis," and then picket as he does just that. (You see, information technology's funny considering Waltz appears in multiple Tarantino films and is not of American descent.)

It didn't help itself by cramming all iii directors into ane episode: The elementary story of Peter getting canned, told three times in a row albeit from each auteurs' varying visions, still felt rushed and rarely could cinephiles glean insightful knowledge of the directors' oeuvres in half-dozen-to-seven minute arcs.

Nonetheless, there were highlights:

Quentin Tarantino

• The opening title card reads, "Presented in i,000,000 FILM," which, while incommunicable, is still funny for the all CAPS emphasis on "film."
• The "intermission" — particularly in a six-minute "film" — is also an easy but nice touch on, especially when Peter pops up to remind the audience that "cinema is an upshot."
• "Someone order a wet-haired black guy to assist with your revenge and sometimes speak louder than necessary?" – Cleveland, delivering one of the few race-related jabs at Tarantino, in an episode that needed many more.
• When Peter shows up for the last fight with his boss, a "Kill Neb" sequence starts upward equally Angela appears with Trisha Takanawa and the Crazy 88s. "Peter, I"m continuing here because I'grand the only recurring Asian character on the series," Takanawa says, which works as self-skewering motility for "Family unit Guy" than a poke at Tarantino.
• "Peter, you can tell I'm different considering my weapon is unlike," spoken by the leader of The Crazy 88s, is a much better rip on QT.
• Because Tarantino is arguably Harvey Weinstein's most famous collaborator, that the parody of his work has no reference to electric current events makes information technology seem extra dated. Understanding how animation works — it takes time, people — provides a valid alibi, only it doesn't modify the interpretation.

Of note: This is Carrie Fisher'due south penultimate episode on "Family Guy." She voices Angela, Peter's boss (pictured above).

Wes Anderson

• Perhaps the most illuminating moment of this all-too-cursory bit was Peter's introduction, describing Wes Anderson: "A guy who makes you feel like you lot ate a pot brownie and woke up in a greeting card."
• Stewie'south narration is fine, only just think if they would've gotten Alec Baldwin or Bob Balaban. It's an in-house gig and that's fine, but these kind of niggling touches were what made the episode experience like a missed opportunity overall. (That and the Waltz joke.)
• It's not that Peter riding a unicycle is funny, it's that they cut to a close-upwards of his bike lock and the numbers are, every bit indicated onscreen, "The Birthday of Marcel Proust."
• The foreign language cover of "I Got You Babe" that played is i of the most subtle nods of the entire half-hour.
• "Cheers for watching, white people," appears on the gravesite gate for family patriarch, Peter. Not bad, only again, this joke has been fabricated hundreds of times for many years.
• Later the segment ends, Peter asks, "Wouldn't it be nice if all of Wes Anderson'due south movies were actually that brusk?" This is a particularly infuriating and unnecessary joke for Anderson fans because Anderson has never fabricated a picture over two hours, and most of his movies are less than 100 minutes. The joke could apply to anyone you think makes bad movies, and then its lack of specificity deadens the satire. Anderson makes short movies — why imply he makes long ones?

Michael Bay

• Literally everyone being an obscenely jacked dude or a scantily clad, large-breasted lady is but impaired plenty to be kind of, sort of funny.
• When paired with the prototype of Peter showering with his motorcycle, it really works.
• Right before a climactic battle scene, Joe and Cleveland blatantly betoken out their name-brand equipment: "My Microsoft Surface!" Joe emphasizes twice. "My Samsung Gear watch says the same matter." While not as funny every bit the bodily video tallying up all of Michael Bay's product placements, information technology's a practiced nod to it.
• OK, here's where this "manager affair" loses its mode: When the aforementioned fight actually starts, Peter says, "Permit'due south have a fight with so many quick shots and close-ups you tin't tell what'south going on." This is, to a bespeak, accurate: Bay'south use of a stupefying number of edits to build activity has been a betoken of contention throughout his career, but the episode only uses it in that specific scene, whereas Bay uses information technology all the time. If the episode had been cutting quickly throughout and then amped information technology upwardly to the point of zippo coherence, perhaps this gag would've worked. Instead, it was just airheaded and predictable — much like the remainder of "Iii Directors."
• Likewise, even though the episode ends with Peter unexpectedly surviving his fight with a Transformer, Michael Bay doesn't do a lot of fake deaths. "Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor," and "thirteen Hours" all characteristic real deaths, and not plenty "Transformers" movies utilize the fake-out to make this a relevant point of parody.

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