jawneyfloros Director: Seth MacFarlane Screenplay: Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild Cat: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris and Giovanni Ribisi Plot: In 1882 a sheep hearder loses his girlfriend to the local mustache guy and tries to win her back. Review: I hated this movie because it can't decide if it wants to be a modern update of Blazing Saddles or Seth MacFarlane does the wild west, either way this was a horrible movie. The direction and screenplay are horrible. The casting and acting are absolutely horrible. All in all I would give this zero out of a possible five stars.

maruugaa I'm actually a big Seth MacFarlane fan. I watched Family Guy religiously as a teenager and can quote that show for pretty much every ridiculous incident in my life. I for some reason missed every movie of 2014 and am only watching them all now. I found this in the DVD bin at Walmart and decided to get it since I love Seth MacFarlane's humour. It wasn't a bad movie. But it wasn't nearly as funny as the stuff I'm used to by him. It was also way to long for what it is. I also used to watch My Name is Earl religiously, so was pretty disappointed by Giovianni Ribisi's character in this. And I overall dislike Sarah Silverman. Anyway, movie wasn't awful, it just didn't live up to Seth MacFarlane's other works.

TownRootGuy What else is there to say? It's not like his shows have range, they're always low-brow comedies.It has an excellent cast, great eye candy AND you could laugh yourself to death.This is a must see for MacFarlane fans and a total pass for cinematic snobs. I can watch this every 2 or 3 years.

wsidejack1 This movie is a satire of a massive film genre, American Western movies, and the Old West itself. It mocks and makes ridiculous all the mainstays of those films, which, like all movies, are not historically accurate, and it also has fun with quite a few realistic aspects of life on the frontier itself. For example, in recorded history there are VERY, VERY few instances of anyone fanning a gun (pulling back the hammer repeatedly by running his opposite hand across the top of it), because it made your shots go wild and it was an excellent way to get yourself killed. Similarly, two gunmen meeting at a prearranged time (high noon?) in the middle of the street, much less counting to three or one of them letting the other man draw first, are also Hollywood fantasies, as are conversations between the two combatants, as seemingly happened more and more over time in movies starting with the Psychological Westerns of the 1950s.Just like in Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," which I think most of us were forced to read in high school and we could not get what the guy was trying to say, this movie is not to be taken on face value. The intent is to have a good laugh and to poke fun at certain things about the Old West and its depiction in movies.Yet, there is apparently a reverence in this movie for some of the conventions of classic Westerns. Actor Seth McFarlane, who plays a sheepherder in this movie, is named Stark. Perhaps this is a thinly veiled reference to the main character, Joe Starrett, in the Western classic movie "Shane"--a peaceful farmer who is threatened by the local cattle baron. Also, did anyone notice that in the center of the main street in the town this movie is set in, there is a large old tree stump? That's equivalent to having a twenty foot high pile of massive stones in the middle of a three lane modern highway. It shouldn't be there for all practical purposes.So why did McFarlane and the other writers put it there? Because such a tree stump is part of a prominent scene in both "Shane" and, if I recall correctly, the more recent classic "Pale Rider" (starring Clint Eastwood). In both cases there is a scene where the threatened farmer/miner bonds with the gunfighter who is there to help him (Alan Ladd as Shane or Clint Eastwood in "Pale Rider") by the pair laboriously chopping out a large old tree stump on his land with axes, when it would have been so much easier to blow it up. Finally, I wonder if some of the stars of this movie were specifically chosen with satire in mind. Neeson and Theron are both foreign born, but are in an American western? And Neil Patrick Harris is the new boyfriend of McFarlane's lost love Louise?