I've seen Wild Wild West an embarrassing number of times. For some reason, it was the one and only bootleg VHS we owned when I was a kid, and I watched the hell out of it.

This movie is so goddamn stupid and I just don't understand how everyone doesn't have a soft spot for it. I mean.. a gigantic terrible CGI robotic spider? Come on. That is so stupid that it can't not be badass.

Plus if you ever happen to find yourself watching it with me, you will have the pleasure of me flawlessly singing the end song in its entirety to you. And you will enjoy it. 'Cause you don't wanna see my hand where my hip be at.

What can I say? It's a Guilty Pleasure.

Viewed on Netflix

In the late 90's, Will Smith was Mr. Summer Blockbuster.
1996- Independence Day
1997- Men In Black
1998- Enemy Of The State
It looked like he could do no wrong, then...
1999- Wild Wild West
It was such a disaster, director Barry Sonnenfeld has still yet to recover.
He's been reduced to making Men In Black sequels to keep working.
Kevin Kline was once a highly touted actor. His career hasn't been the same since.
It seems Selma Hayek is the only one to come out unscathed.

This is how bad Wild Wild West is.

Also..I understand the obligatory Will Smith song during the end credits but what's with the Enrique Iglesias song?

Just awful.

none of the parents guides mention this but you can see will smith's dick & balls in the first scene of wild wild west it must be like when john ritter's balls fell out on threes company?? also this movie rules

this is exactly what i believe hbo’s westworld is like and i refuse to find out otherwise.

Bombastic, meaningless, but suitably fun, Barry Sonnenfeld's "Wild Wild West" is a typical, empty blockbuster. The sci-fi-tinged Western, based on the mid-1960s television series, does not offer much in the way of depth; but a stellar cast and capable energy turn it into something engaging. Sonnenfeld wrings the charisma out of his characters and makes the most of the story's semi-steampunk pretensions. The film's charms may only be skin deep, but they are enough to make for a noisily enjoyable experience.

Probably not the worst movie ever made, but almost certainly the lamest. Every joke, every set piece, every character falls so flat that the movie is practically an ongoing chain of hydraulic presses compacting itself into oblivion, flattening the film into a pancake and that pancake into a crêpe. It's Hollywood run-off, an amalgamation of the studio system's absolute dumbest ideas, releasing in 1999 as if to summarize the decade's worst filmmaking tendencies. It's not a particularly insulting movie, but it's downright impossible to resist hating it; you have to give it that half star because it feels so good to. Picture the scripts for every movie ever made lying out in front of you. This is the one that's covered in the most cocaine.

Honestly....... you can tell Tarantino was inspired by parts of this for Django lmao

that was a man's head

still trying to figure out why people think this movie is bad

Bizarre Genreüberschneidungen, die mir schon immer besser gefallen haben als den meisten. Etwas übertrieben ist die Tabu-Mischung eines Steampunk-Western schon. Viele Gags schießen hart am Ziel vorbei und das Spiel der Darsteller variiert von befremdlich zu overacted, aber das brutale Chaos Wild Wild West bringt durch seine andersartige Gestalt als Adventure-Actioner mit absurden Sci-Fi-Kniffen ziemlich Spaß. Die Chemie der Lead-Men kommt und geht je nach Dialogschwäche, aber ein sympathisches Gespann geben Will Smith und Kevin Kline allemal. Auch die hoch budgetierten Effekte treffen den ungewöhnlichen Tonus des Filmes. Wirklich furchtbar bleibt nur Kenneth Branaghs Performance als überdrehter Bösewicht Dr. Arliss Loveless. Der Plot lebt nicht von Intelligenz oder Spannung, wodurch ich diesen wilden Mix aber zu schätzen weiß ist die unschlagbare Kreativität mancher Szenen und technischer Erfindungen innerhalb der Fiktion, Wild Wild West verbindet seine Überzahl wirrer Ideen zu einem bombastischen Westerncomic, dessen Trashgehalt aus jedem Scharnier raucht aber eine Menge Originalität beweist, die viele abschrecken wird.

The cinematographers of The Marriage of Maria Braun, Miller’s Crossing, and The Matrix + the editor of Collateral + the writers of Tremors, Predator, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit + the composer of To Kill a Mockingbird + one of film’s greatest makeup artists = a film where Will Smith and Kevin Kline work through unresolved homoerotic tension while Kenneth Branagh tries to blow up Utah with a giant steampunk spider. Nothing short of a clusterfuck, but a big, beautiful, transfixingly weird clusterfuck regardless, admirable in its commitment to not making any sense whatsoever; great production design, at least, and the theme song qualifies as a bioweapon through sheer catchiness alone. More Hollywood action movies should have mandatory drag scenes.

By this point, everyone can agree that Brannagh is amazing, as he backstrokes down the River of Ham.

Giant mechanical spider riding off into the sunset.

This cast—especially Kenneth Branaugh’s legendary scene chewing—will forever make this a nostalgia trip for me.

The movie had nothing to offer besides the hot female co-stars.

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The cinematographers of The Marriage of Maria Braun, Miller’s Crossing, and The Matrix + the editor of Collateral + the writers of Tremors, Predator, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit + the composer of To Kill a Mockingbird + one of film’s greatest makeup artists = a film where Will Smith and Kevin Kline work through unresolved homoerotic tension while Kenneth Branagh tries to blow up Utah with a giant steampunk spider. Nothing short of a clusterfuck, but a big, beautiful, transfixingly weird clusterfuck regardless, admirable in its commitment to not making any sense whatsoever; great production design, at least, and the theme song qualifies as a bioweapon through sheer catchiness alone. More Hollywood action movies should have mandatory drag scenes.

Some would say that they tried. I’m giving one star for the costume design alone.

it's got everything

I remember this movie from when I was very young! 
I always saw Kenneth Branagh as a very boring actor but his performance in this movie is so good that I’m 110% sure it isn’t him!

I'm just here to say that Neil did the theme song better

It's pretty stupid

Fun and creative.

It was basically a shit men in black but in the style of a western with futuristic inventions and contraptions, unfunny punch lines and racism that has no place in a comedy.

The plot was too convoluted and supporting cast crap, only gains a star for the excellent theme song!