while
I don't hate Seth Macfarlane as much as some do (I like his stuff if I'm in the right mood (drunk, high, or post-head injury)), I don't think his
pop culture reference based humour works so well in a western.
This
film feels a little off. It feels like ol' Seth is massaging his ego
the entire time, and I didn't get the impression that he doesn't even
know all that much about the genre (the two big references were to a
'Django Unchained' and 'Back to the Future Part III' (both great
films, but not exactly classic westerns). I wonder weather Seth
doesn't know the westerns very well, or just assumes (most likely
rightly) that his fans don't?) It was dumb, obviously, but it wasn't
as funny or as watchable as 'Ted'. Despite this I still enjoyed
watching someone so rich get urinated on in the face by an
inexplicably male sheep.
I
laughed a few times, but most of this was just pretty boring. They
repeated a lot of material that wasn't too funny to begin with, and
treated the audience like idiots with the amount of hand holding they
did with anything even slightly historical or plot developmenty.
I wasn't sure what I was in for when I started watching this, but was disappointed to find an extremely generic cut-and-paste triangle of romance with a garnish of bad guy gunslinger plot. I'd have preferred just a million death scenes, a sort of 'Bunny Suicides' set in the west.
I wasn't sure what I was in for when I started watching this, but was disappointed to find an extremely generic cut-and-paste triangle of romance with a garnish of bad guy gunslinger plot. I'd have preferred just a million death scenes, a sort of 'Bunny Suicides' set in the west.
A Million Ways to Die in the West: 25.3