Wild Wild West

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Summary: How the West Was Done (In)
Review: If this bloated, unfunny, offensive, ill-conceived dud doesn't spell the end of the Western, I don't know what will. Will Smith's usually winning personality falls completely flat here, and Mr. Kline is equally lousy in the role that calls for him to do little except dress up in drag that makes him look even worse than Kurt Russell did in "Tango & Cash". Barry Sonnenfeld displays none of the wit that he used to such great effect in "Men In Black" and (especially) "Get Shorty".

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Summary: This is a fun movie!
Review: Lots of reviewers are hating this movie, but I found it to be a lot of fun and got quite a few laugs off of it. Kevin Kline is great, and Will Smith has so many great lines to add comedic value to this movie. From what I understand, this movie had nothing to do with the old TV show except for maybe the names. I never saw the orignal TV show, so I didn't care. This was sort of a James Bond meets the Wild West. I believe the core audience this film was supposed to appeal to was late teen to thirty somethings, and for me it fit the bill. I really enjoyed this movie. I think if you are in the mood for a fun, comedic adventure or if you are a fan of Will Smith's humor, you should buy this movie. All others should at least give it a chance by renting it. As a bonus there are two music videos at the end of the movie that might make it worth it for you.

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Summary: Even better than Men In Black!
Review: The script was brilliant! The FX for the giant spider, in my opinion, were cartoonish and clunky, but still a great movie!

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Summary: Warning has almost nothing to do with the TV Series.
Review: In fact, I think there are exactly 4 similarities between Wild Wild West the movie and the TV-Show

those 4 are:

James West's name Artemis Gordon's name Dr Loveless' Name President Grant's name.

The Characters themselve are all radically different, and The Story is not a story you would have seen in the TV Series.

In short this is the _Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves_ version of Wild Wild West. What do I mean? Just this, that if you can forget everything about the CHaracters this is _supposed_ to be about, you actually have a decent movie.

If you never watched _The Wild Wild West_ on TV, or if you can forget that this is supposed to be based on the TV series you can really enjoy this movie.

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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: This was one of the very few films that I have stopped, rewound and slid back in the case before it was over. I thought this film would be a fun trip into fantasyland with crazy things and zany people, not to be taken seriously, just a lot of crazy zany fun. Well, it didn't even do that, it was bad folks, baaad. And movies have to be pretty bad for me to shut them down. Will Smith was not convincing in his character as he also was not convincing in his roles in "Independence Day" and "Men in Black". He looks much too young for these characters and shows not an once of maturity in his lines and actions. If he acted more mature, it could help offset his youthful looks. Its like watching a little boy playing grown up characters. Perhaps thats what turned me off "Wild Wild West". Don't waste your time on this one.

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Summary: It stinks! It stinks! It stinks!
Review: Will Smith was in many great movies, ranging from Bad Boys to Independence Day, to Men In Black, which was okay. But then what happened? All of a sudden he's doing Wild Wild West, a movie with one of the most annoying theme songs I've ever heard, second to that theme from Titanic. I hate that song. I have just one short phrase for this movie: It stinks! It stinks! It stinks! For those of you who missed that, well: It stinks! It stinks! It stinks! To wrap it up, this movie is horrible. You could even say that...it STINKS!

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Summary: There are very few real comedies
Review: This movie was written on the level of 12 year old males. I know, because my 12 year old stepson loved it. I feel asleep after the first 20 minutes the first time and suffered through the last minutes the second time. I couldn't figure out why I didn't really like until I read another reviewer's note that it was basically just MIB (which I didn't like) married with sci-fi and a western. I never saw the original series and I felt like I never understood the high tech toys set in what was supposed to be the 1860's. Even my husband's explanation that the villian kidnapped all the greatest scientists of that time wasn't enough to explain why everything looked like it was set in Star Wars time but everyone decided to be in a big post Civil War costume party. I also didn't like it because, since the humor was on a low level, it could have been a family film, but the filmakers just had to put in sexual innuendos and situations and profanity.

Although the real humor came from the subtle inside jokes and a few good lines from Will Smith and Kevin Kline, it wasn't a laugh-out-loud-every-minute movie like the much better "Bowfinger". Plus, I'm always suspect when you have a white straight man like Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Robbins and Kevin Kline opposite a frenetic black comedian because the black character often acts like a buffoon while the white character gets to retain his dignity and get a lesson in black hipness.

Poor Kenneth Branaugh. It would be better to see him with Kevin Kline in the new Dreamworks cartoon. Not only did he have a bad Southern accent, but almost all of his lines opposite Smith were offensive. Smith's clever responses were the only positives of the film.

Smith has gone the way of Wesley Snipes, starting off doing thoughtful movies(please see Smith in "Six Degrees of Separation), getting a big hit as a certain type (wisecracking action hero- Independence Day) and forever being stuck in roles like the big hit. The only time I feel like the formula worked was in "Enemy of the State". Even though it wasn't really a comedy, it was a heck of a lot funnier than this movie.

I hate to say it, but Smith's video at the end was better than the movie. And if you do dare to watch it with the kids, please shut it off before the Iglesias video which was irrevelant, unnecessary and a little racy!

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Summary: Absolutely the worst WS movie EVER!
Review: This movie is absolutely stupid. No laugh-out scenes, just make-you-smile scenes. And the cast is not right, at all. Only Kevin Kline is right as Artemus Gordon. I give this 0.9 out of a scale of 1 to 10. Rated PG-13 for a brief glimpse of nudity, strong language, crude humor, and violence.

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Summary: IT WAS SO COOL
Review: I THINK THAT THE WILD WILD WEST WAS COOL AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WAS VERY NEAT &AWESOME.THE ACTORS AND THE ACTRESES WERE VERY GOOD .ESPECIALLY WILL SMITH, KENNETH BRANAGH , AND SALMA HAYEK.

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Summary: Wild Wild Worst
Review: This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. I saw it at the theater with my wife and at the conclusion she turned to me and said "well THAT was a DUD". I was thinking "pile of manure" myself. The bad things about the movie are as follows: script, acting, script, direction, script, "special" effects, script. Kenneth Branagh may never live this "performance" down. This "movie" recently won the Razzie for worst film of the year and it DESERVED it. Don't waste your time.