A million ways to die in the west. A Million Ways To Die In The West review

While Neeson is largely boring, pitching it somewhere between Taken and Seraphim Falls, Theron is a lot more appealing and almost manages to make her role convincing in its own right As it is, it looks and feels for all the world like the writer plucked the resolution out of his arsw, shoehorned the plot around it and then explained it to death, killing the joke in the process
Underneath all the buffoonery and fart jokes, there was a believable relationship between Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, who were part of a story with genuine tension, stakes and even pathos He deconstructs his own joke while he's telling it, insulting our intelligence and bringing the pace of the scene to a grinding halt

The initial idea has some comedic promise - someone can't attend a gunfight because he can't stop going to the toilet.

A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Equally, he could have taken Liam Neeson's ruthless, lugubrious villain and subverted the concept, making him a complete coward or someone who is misunderstood
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
And in that same grand tradition of parodies, the story runs secondary to the opportunity for comedy, with MacFarlane playing a poor sheep-farmer who attempts to win back the love of his life from the wealthy proprietor of the local moustachery Neil Patrick Harris with the help of a beautiful newcomer in town Charlize Theron
A Million Ways To Die In The West review
Macfarlane can do so much better as both an actor and a writer, but the biggest compliment you can pay this film is that it makes you want to rewatch Blazing Saddles, to see how it really should be done
The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark Seth MacFarlane feels certain that the Western frontier is trying to kill him, then he loses his girlfriend, Louise Amanda Seyfried , to the town's most successful businessman
However, a beautiful, pistol-packing woman named Anna Charlize Theron rides into town and helps Albert find his inner courage In spite of all this, it would be wrong to describe A Million Ways as an abject failure

Just as was with Ted, so it is with Macfarlane's second film, A Million Ways to Die in the West hereafter A Million Ways.

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His writing is mediocre, always low-balling it when a person in his position should be taking risks
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
He's playing at being a cowboy, making up the plot as he sees fit, rather than creating believable cowboy characters who just happen to talk like 1970s Jewish comedians
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
It is equally possible to enjoy it for the supporting cast, who work overtime to do their best in spite of the material