![]() Until she meets Albert, and teaches him how to shoot a gun - at cans and whiskey bottles and animated African American figures fleeing for their lives. He likes to slap her around, and for some reason, she takes it. She's Anna, the hard-riding wife of the outlaw Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson). Take the county fair arcade game "Shoot a Runaway Slave," please.Ĭharlize Theron joins MacFarlane at the shooting gallery. As Albert tries to reason with the guy staring him down on the dusty street of this dusty town, jokes about Parkinson's disease, Asians, and fellatio ensue.īefore this way-too-long endeavor heads off into the proverbial sunset, its slew of gags about excrement (human, equine, ruminant mammals), intestinal gases, bodily fluids, sex, and genitalia is augmented by truly offensive bits at the expense of blacks and women. Even an out-and-out farce needs someone with a modicum of charisma at its core.Ī Million Ways to Die in the West establishes its classy and sophisticated comic strategy with an opening High Noon face-off between Albert and a disgruntled, trigger-happy cowpoke. If the idea was to cast a milquetoast guy in a milquetoast role, it backfires. MacFarlane's face is boyish, bland, but also kind of creepy (he appears to have no eyelashes). He's Albert Stark, a mild-mannered sheep farmer in love with pretty Louise (Amanda Seyfried). MacFarlane, the Family Guy creator, controversial one-time Oscar host, and writer/director of the gleefully crude, talking-plush-toy comedy Ted, makes his first mistake casting himself in the lead. This movie feels like it has a million jokes, and every single one arrives with a lethal thud. ![]() The title of Seth MacFarlane's potty-brained parody, A Million Ways to Die in the West, alludes to the rampant mortal dangers facing the pitiable citizens of the Arizona Territory, circa 1882: venomous snakes, killer tumbleweed, barroom brawls, cholera, poisons, marauding Indians, and the occasional gunslinging outlaw.īut the title also serves as commentary on the "comedy" in MacFarlane's self-aggrandizing and seriously unpleasant western spoof. ![]()
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