A Million Ways to die in the West (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy TV-series, Ted 1-2)
	Actors: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron (Prometheus, Mad Max: Fury Road), Liam Neeson (Taken, Star Wars Episode I), Giovani Ribisi (Avatar), Neil Patrick Harris (Starship Troopers)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Western, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 29.07.2016, VOD, 32" TV
Synopsis: As a cowardly farmer (MacFarlane) begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town (Theron), he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger (Neeson), announces his arrival.
Review: I had seen the trailer for this movie some time ago and remembered it when looking for an easy comedy. I usually like the humour of Seth MacFarlane in Ted or the Family Guy TV-series, albeit in small doses. For those who don't know this humour is quite crude and vulgar sometimes, but with an acute regard on society, so I was quite curious to see how he would apply it to a Western. And in fact he does it by putting in perspective the awfully hard life people had in the West with observations and remarks that only a man from this century would have formulated. Example: when he is talking about germs or health or this kind of concerns that nobody had at the time, or when he is making fun of gun duels. But the movie is not just a succession of crude dialogs, anachronic gags and violent deaths. All along is inserted a Romance story that anchors the movie in reality and in the present in fact, as the trouble the man goes through and his questionings after his girlfriend dumps him are contemporary to us.
Rating: 5 /10