A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014) 7/10

Starring : Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman, Liam Neeson
Director : Seth MacFarlane
Running Time : 116 mins

Albert (MacFarlane) is a lazy sheepherder living in the old West whose girlfriend Louise (Seyfried) has left him after he backs out of a duel. When he meets Anna (Theron), a woman who is new to town, they come up with a ploy for him to win back his lady by training as a gunfighter, but Anna’s husband is the dangerous outlaw Clinch Leatherwood (Neeson), and he doesn’t take kindly to folk messing with his woman.

After the disaster that was Ted, and the fact that Family Guy has been on a steady decline for over a decade, I really didn’t expect much from this effort. Surprisingly there were a few laughs, mostly uncomfortable ones, but not as many as you’d hope for in a modern comedy. As usual with MacFarlane, there were some unnecessary racist jokes and observations (since when is calling someone yellow a slur against the Chinese?), and the strongest moments were probably the scenes that didn’t feature MacFarlane such as those between Ribisi and Silverman which were pretty funny. Fans of MacFarlane (of which I’m guessing there are millions) will no doubt find this appealing, otherwise steer clear.

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