A Million Ways to Die in the West

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A Million Ways to Die in the West. Now that's a mouthful. I went in to this movie not really knowing much about it. I would have liked to left knowing about the same.

The movie follows Albert (Seth MacFarlane), a sheep farmer, as he falls in love with the wife of the most notorious gunslinger in the west. That on its own sounds interesting. The characters were even halfway decent. Sadly, those are really the only good things about the movie.

Million Ways was meant to be a comedy. It was even written by a guy known for funny TV shows. What came off the screen was cheesy camp. While this is good for things like animated TV shows, it didn't do so well here.

In addition to its campiness, it was also supposed to be a Western. While the overall feel of the film was Western-ish (the music by Joel McNeely greatly helps this), the dialogue between characters uses phrases and words that are common in today's lexicon. This (and the fact every time I heard Albert talk, I thought of Peter Griffin) made the movie a lot less immersive.

AMWtDitW will only be getting 3½ stars from me

Due to the way that the movie pulls you out of the immersion and the campiness of the whole thing, I really don't think there's much merit to watching it more than once. And I would even go so far as to say that the time you do watch it, I would wait until you can rent it. Maybe Seth MacFarlane should stick to cartoons and CGI bears. 

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