A Million Ways To Die In The West
A Million Ways To Die In The West is an American Western comedy centered around a mild-mannered sheep farmer who falls for a new woman in town but his inner courage is no where near getting close to her.
13 November 1986, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1 December 1970, Bedford, New Hampshire, USA
17 November 1964, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 January 1956, New York City, New York, USA
June 14, 2016
Neil Patrick Harris owns the movie's funniest scene, involving not one, but two bowler hats and no relief in sight.April 15, 2016
MacFarlane's aim is true when it comes to the pic's continuous meta-commentary.May 30, 2014
The movie, which MacFarlane directed and cowrote with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, is clever about its anachronisms. You stay surprised.November 13, 2014
Although hardly 'Blazing Saddles,' the movie is pretty funny when it depicts the Old West as a place of such 'general depressing awfulness' it can sink a person into 'a disgusting, awful, dirty cesspool of despair.'May 30, 2014
If you measure a comedy by how many times you laughed, Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West, at least for me, is a middling success.June 01, 2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West feels like about 80 minutes of material was padded out to 110 minutes.May 30, 2014
But for all its hit-and-miss jokes, there are lots of ways to die laughing at this Western raunchfest.May 30, 2014
In A Million Ways to Die in the West, director-star Seth MacFarlane builds an imposing, affectionate reconstruction of the American movie West, then defaces it with funny mustaches -- often literally.June 13, 2016
The funniest thing about One Million Ways ...? How come McFarlane was much more convincing as Ted than he is here as a real person.November 07, 2014
There are moments of wit in the script, and one or two strong scenes, but the film feels oddly directionless for much of its runtime.June 16, 2014
The one person who gets the balance right, weighing parody and homage, is the composer, Joel McNeely, whose opening theme stirs hopes and memories that the movie cannot match.March 07, 2016
[MacFarlane] thinks he's winking-making bad jokes to subvert their precise calculation with awkward explanations he hopes conjure laughs-but it's a plea of desperation.