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After watching the first 3 in a two period to see what was so good about the series, I decided to watch this as an off-chance. I was horribly disappointed. While it might have come out before Shanghai Noon, this was just plain unbearable to watch with painfully BAD stereotypical dialogue with a plot thrown in around the last 2/3rd of the movie. Do yourself some justice and skip this movie if given an option. Only watch it for morbid curiosity, but you'll only be disappointed. I feel like this horrible film tainted my eyes after watching the first 3, which were full of movie magic. The action scenes in this one didn't even keep my attention at times.

Usually an Asian film based on the mafia/yakuza or the police with nothing but gunfights will be instant crowd pleasers with most men. There is not much to it as all you need is good choreographed scenes, high body count and a lot of bullets flying throughout the movie. This film took a rather simplistic formula and completely botched it. In real life, you'd never give a child nor an idiot a gun and just tell them, "Go kill people with it." This film lets 4 bumbling idiots go shoot at anyone they want. At times, I wasn't sure if this film was trying to be a serious film or just a bad comedy. If you want to play a cruel joke on your friends who are into Asian action films then have them watch this film. For anyone else, avoid this film.

Family Guy <> Simpsons. Family Guy >= South Park. I been a fan of The Simpsons since day 1 just when I a kid and grew up on The Simpsons. I lived through Bartmania. When The Simpsons went popular in early '90's, all the other channels tried to jump on and failed miserably. Then in '95, a cult cartoon became a national phenom with South Park, and I also became an immediate fan. Lastly in '99, right after the Superbowl I became a fan of a new series called Family Guy. While the animation is nowhere as good as The Simpsons but not as crude as South Park, it is not comparable to The Simpsons. The dialogue & jokes seem to definitely be more South Park influenced than The Simpsons. At times, Family Guy pushes the envelope a lot more often than South Park (movie & series).

The first season was tamed compared to the 2nd and now finally the 3rd season. Family Guy has become a cult hit even after it was pulled off the air in mid-2000. I tend to find Family Guy to be way more offensive with its jokes than South Park. Its unbelievable the amount of sexual innuendoes and no-hold barred dark humor on just about every subject possible to be offensive on has been poked at in this series and this is aired on a public channel. Cable can be a bit more lenient, but just watching this series on Fox I'm just utterly amazed what it gets away with. While it's tame on the cursing, the humor goes to the absolute absurd. One particular example is when the character Meg is talking to guy, and to keep his attention she blurts out, "Well I can't taste salt." While younger kids who watch this show won't some jokes, adults should be able to pick it up quickly and will just have you rolling on the floor laughing. Actual actors could never do the material on this show. That's what makes it brilliant since its not done by actual actors it allows the extremely creative writers to find things to poke at. This show it tailored for 18-34 male audience with frequent pop culture references from 70's-90's but seems also to have racy humor that I don't think women would find to be humorous.

The last several years of The Simpsons have not been great and at times down right weird and South Park has been hit & miss with each particular episode in the last 2 seaons and they seem to be missing the original formula. This can not be said about Family Guy as it just keeps improving with each episode. If you like your humor very dark with no sugar or cream, this is a series you just can't miss.