If you know that Seth MacFarlane is the creator of "Family Guy", then you'll have an idea of what "A Million Ways to Die in the West" contains. Executive producing this year's "Cosmos" showed that he has a serious side, but his silliness is on full display here with him in the lead role. The movie shows what the Old West would've been like had it been the brainchild of 10- to 14-year-old boys. Not even "Blazing Saddles" showed the stuff that we see here!
I found Sarah Silverman's character to be the funniest, speaking as casually as she does about oral and anal sex. As for scenes, I liked the whole sequence with the Indians the best. But the movie always knows which kind of movie it is. "AMWTDITW" definitely won't be for everyone, but if you can accept nonstop crude humor then you'll enjoy it. And you're bound to find Charlize Theron and Amanda Seyfried both really hot.
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Action / Comedy / Romance / Western
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Action / Comedy / Romance / Western
Plot summary
Set in 1882 in the American west, Albert is a lowly farmer with a nice girlfriend. But when she leaves him for the more successful and handsome owner of a moustachery store, Albert returns to his lonely daily life of trying to avoid death. Then the mysterious Anna rides into town and captures Albert's interest and heart, but with her deadly husband in town, Albert is going to have to become the western gun-slinging hero he never was. It won't be easy because there are a million ways to die in the west.
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Who hasn't wanted to picture the Old West as a bastion of teenage boy humor?
Seth is not a good comic actor
It's 1882 in the small town of Old Stump, Arizona. Albert (Seth MacFarlane) is not a manly man and not a particularly good sheep farmer. His girlfriend Louise (Amanda Seyfried) breaks up with him for Foy (Neil Patrick Harris). His best friends are Edward (Giovanni Ribisi) and his prostitute girlfriend Ruth (Sarah Silverman). Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson) is a ruthless bandit who places his wife Anna (Charlize Theron) in town. Albert befriends Anna who is looking for a nice guy.
I have come to conclude that Seth MacFarlane is not a good comic actor. He's a good writer and is good with his voice. Here, he does poorly enough to make me question whether he's even actually a good director. He's just not expressive enough to be a performer. He's not leading man material. Without a real comic in the lead, Charlize Theron is put into an unenviable position to be funny. She's quite charming as the female Seth playing the dude in the relationship. Her cool-chick fun personality gives life to this movie but she is still not the lead. The two of them have good friendship chemistry together. There isn't much heat in the romance. I imagine many standup comedians and other actors could have excelled in this role. Seth is not the guy.
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First of all this is one of these films that showed all in its trailers, the good jokes that is.
Secondly, Seth MacFarlane does not have enough to be a leading man and it needed another comedy actor to make the best of this film.
Thirdly the story was let down when it lapses into frequent dullness. It needed to be sharper and wittier.
What we have is a homage to the westerns mixed with low brow humour. Hold on, I think Blazing Saddles did this better.
Amanda Seyfried and Charlize Theron are both appealing enough, Neil Patrick Harris gets into the spirit with a few off jokes and a song and dance number. Neeson plays it straight as the villain and there are a few cameos but its a poor show when the toilet humour are the best gags.