Critic Reviews
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New York Post Kyle Smith
I laughed more at Seth MacFarlane's sendup of '60s Westerns than I did at all the other comedies I've seen this year, combined.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Like "Blazing Saddles", A Million Ways to Die in the West has a slew of comic set-ups and one-liners that kill. And, as with Mel Brooks' classic 1974 film, it steps unabashedly into vulgar terrain.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An inventive and caustic comedy that really does look like the thing it's mocking.
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67
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
That's not to say that MacFarlane's film isn't funny, but rather that his creative talent could benefit from more judicious editing and focus. MacFarlane's id runs rampant with no signs of a superego (internal or external) to rein it in.
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63
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Call this cowpoke comedy "Blazing Saddles" for millennials. Or just call it icky.
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60
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The Dissolve Nathan Rabin
MacFarlane's follow-up feels less like a film than like an extremely long, fairly inspired live-action episode of Family Guy, one that's only as strong as the latest gag or riff. And this being a Seth MacFarlane production, those gags and riffs are of varying levels of quality.
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60
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Time Out New York
Despite the constant threat of untimely death, though, the consequences never seem too dire, and MacFarlane's irreverent humor feels subdued without the jolt of animation that gave his previous big-screen effort, "Ted," an extra oomph of shock and awe.
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58
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The Wrap Alonso Duralde
The moments of absurdity land with a wonderfully weird grace, while the desperately vulgar gags about sex and scatology echo and crash as though they were being uttered in a middle-school boys' restroom.
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50
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The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
Stocking the supporting cast with top-drawer talent, he gives most of his costars little to do besides attract our attention on movie posters.
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40
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Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
MacFarlane's film is too broad, too dumb, too offensive to justify the meager laughs it generates.
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40
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
In the end, Albert's biggest problem isn't the threat of coyotes or cholera. It's that he's being played by the wrong guy.
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38
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Movie Nation Roger Moore
Seth MacFarlane wants to be a movie star in the worst way. A Million Ways to Die in the West is result of this longing, a long/longer/longest comedy with long waits between jokes and longer waits between those that work. Thus, does his leading man career begin and end with a “worst way” Western.
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30
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Some of it sputters, settling for smiles instead of laughs, and much of it flounders while the slapdash script searches, at exhausting length, for ever more common denominators in toilet humor.
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25
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Slant Magazine
All the whiny point-scoring is such an explicit appeal for audience sympathy that the dialogue feels derived from a malnourished stand-up routine.
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25
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
This movie feels like it has a million jokes, and every single one arrives with a lethal thud.
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22
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Film.com Kate Erbland
A relentlessly unfunny, charmless send-up of better films with better ideas.
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