Three Amigos!
3,731
Adventure. Comedy. Western
When silent film stars Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander get fired, they take a job offer from Mexico: Doing a show with El Guapo, supposedly the most famous actor there. Traveling there in hope of getting good money, they arrive only to learn soon that El Guapo is not an actor, but a cruel gang leader suppressing people. He abducts the mayor's beautiful daughter Carmen (to be his wife) in revenge for the people's cry for ... [+]
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United States | Los Angeles Times | "There's hardly a moment in Three Amigos that isn't silly (...) Maybe that's why this tale of a trio of inept silent-movie stars turned real-life heroes is such a goofy delight." | POS |
United States | AV Club | "Martin’s script is full of inspired bits of comic business" | POS |
United Kingdom | Time Out | "The characterisation is paper thin, and Landis' timing as sloppy as ever; but if you enjoy brainless slapstick (...) it's entertaining enough." | NEU |
United States | The Washington Post | "You can't tell one amigo from another, the gags are silly (a "singing bush") and far between, the dialogue full of inane wordplay" | NEG |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "All great farces need a certain insane focus, an intensity that declares how important they are to themselves. This movie is too confident, too relaxed, too clever to be really funny" | NEG |
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