As I settled into my high back velour seat at Rave
Cinemas Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 15 + Extreme I wondered how many other
Seth MacFarlane fans would be there entertaining the same thought, "Will
this be as bad as the critics and word-of-mouth say? Will it be 1 ½ hours of my
life wasted?"
I’ve always stuck to my own rule of thumb, which is to forget what
others say about a movie and go see it myself. I’m glad I did in this case as
well.
Plot:
Cowardly Albert (Seth MacFarlane) backs out of a
gunfight prompting his long time girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried) to leave him
for another man (Neil Patrick
Harris), the proprietor of a moustache emporium. When Albert unwittingly saves
the life of a beautiful woman (Charlize
Theron), she teaches him how to shoot a gun for the first time in his life
and stand up for himself. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw (Liam Neeson), arrives seeking
revenge for the secret love affair, Albert must save her once again, but this
time on purpose.
Was
it full of toilet humor and crude sex jokes? Yes. Did it have a big dance
number with an awesome original / funny song like Seth MacFarlane is so well
known for? Yes. Did it have racist jokes that I, a Black guy, would laugh at?
Yes. One note here about that, don’t leave the theater until the lights come
on, because at the very end, after the Universal Pictures logo swirls, there’s
a double surprise twist of redemption on the racist joke….nailed it!
Every movie has slow parts
and a lot of the same story plots, so to rag on this one for having the same is
missing the forest for the trees. I went to this movie knowing full well what I
was getting into. This is Seth
MacFarlane, the same guy who brought us Family Guy, American Dad,
The Cleveland
Show, Ted
and more! So I expected a cartoonish movie with a lot of hokey humor. Wasn’t
looking for it to be as good as Ted, a lot more went into that movie. Expected
this one to play like a flip-book of one-liners, and it did just that.
That’s my two cents.
About the blogger:
Stevie Mack is a blogger for many reasons, the main one being his love of entertainment.
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