Tuesday 21 March 2017

A Million Ways to Die in the West (Seth MacFarlane, 2014)

So, MacFarlane does the western, with himself as the lead as a hapless, motor-mouthed sheep farmer coming up against Liam Neeson's ruthless killer and Charlize Theron as a plucky love interest. And as you might expect, it's Family Guy again with an 'adult' licence to shove in many, many more fart and sex gags. Despite that lack of ambition, it does occasionally raises a smile when MacFarlane's modern pop culture take on the Wild West collides with historical realities and the cliches of the genre at the same time, but there just aren't enough of these, and it consequently outstays its welcome well before halfway.

4/10

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