A Million Ways to Die in the West **
Dir: Seth
MacFarlane. With: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson. 116 mins.
Cert: 15
Fans of Ted’s aggressively scattershot
misanthropy may be left wanting by Seth MacFarlane’s mock-Western follow-up;
spiritually, it’s closer to a mid-range crowdpleaser like City Slickers than Blazing
Saddles, too enamoured of genre convention to reach for the comic dynamite.
As a sheep farmer who behaves like any other just-dumped fratboy, MacFarlane
remains charmlessly needy, even after Charlize Theron’s gunslinger is roped on
to reassure him what a catch he is. Warped excellence lurks in the shadows – in
the background parade of violent deaths, and Gilbert Gottfried’s cameo as Abe
Lincoln – but draggy pacing means the overall hit rate’s down on even
late-period Family Guy.
A Million Ways to Die in the West opens nationwide today.
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