Y'know what Seth MacFarlane is? He's a bully who thinks he's a victim. He casts himself here as a poor put-upon farmer, who is unfairly mistreated and dumped by a girlfriend despite the fact that he is sweet and kind and sensitive (or at least as sweet and kind and sensitive as man who makes occasional anti-Semitic jokes can be).

It would be one thing if MacFarlane used the regressive attitudes of the West to poke fun at bigots even a single time in this movie. But the West isn't a platform for satire here; it's an excuse to tell offensive jokes because "that's what people were like back then." MacFarlane's character hates the West, but I think MacFarlane himself…

It's easy to make me laugh. Just show me a feather and I'll already beg you to stop tickling me. Show me youtube clips of people falling on their asses and I'll have a riot. But most of all, put me in a theater where a comedy is playing, and no matter how bad it may be it will still make me laugh. It will probably take a few dozens of comedies seen in the theater before this magical effect wears off. Or maybe I'll always have a good time. That's why I'm going to see it, to have a good time, I'm going in ready to laugh and it's going to take a really bad comedy to make me…

Once upon a time in the West there was a Seth MacFarlane comedy that took the 3:10 to Yuma, but ended up in I've-seen-it-before-ville. A not-so-life-friendly place where a sheep herder inclined to shaking in his boots eventually finds his true grit, subduing foes, fears and f'd up hallucinations.

There's good, bad and ugly in this film. Mostly good, heavens be praised, but also a weak and predictable storyline that does like Sarah Silverman's character in the house of ill repute: blows like there's no tomorrow.

Laughs come in all shapes and sizes. Weird, revolting, brutal and occasionally hilarious. Like any episode of Family Guy, however, there's also a dominant chunk of miniscule chuckles and tumbleweeds rolling by as some…

"You're late!"
"For what?"
"Fair enough."

I had a hard time not thinking about Brian Griffin when listening to Seth MacFarlane.

Na de eerste aflevering van De Kijk van Koolhoven - een televisieserie waarin regisseur Martin Koolhoven over zijn favoriete films praat - had ik weer zin om een Western te gaan kijken. De eerste aflevering ging namelijk over de spaghettiwestern. Niet zo gek, gezien Koolhoven recentelijk zelf nog een Western heeft gemaakt, Brimstone, waar ik helemaal weg van ben. Mijn zusje is niet zo weg van het genre als ik, maar bij het zien van de trailer van A Million Ways to Die in the West - met name het stukje waarin een gigantisch ijsblok op iemands hoofd valt…

Theatrical Release: C

Unrated Version: C+

"Please don't shoot us on sex night."

Seth MacFarlane has always typically come across as a primary mainstream comedian with hit or miss humor and prime examples ranging from the sharp-edged comedic gold of the early days of Family Guy to messier misfires like Ted 2, yet on behalf of his occasionally poignant, unapologetic sense of satire, I tend to have a hilarious time when he succeeds in writing off-the-wall absurdist laughs and effective topical material. A Million Ways to Die in the West, on the other hand, supports a near non-existent narrative with a story which blows like there's no tomorrow, disappointingly effecting the extreme comedic value present throughout some hysterical segments about…