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Summary: HOW THE WEST WAS FUN
Review: RUSTLER'S RHAPSODY is a marvelous, witty and entertaining satire on those old westerns of the 30s and 40s. Tom Berenger is great as the hero, Singing Cowboy Rex O'Halloran. Playing against type, Tom moves effortlessly through the role, and has a fabulous wardrobe to boot. G. W. Bailey as the town drunk and wannabe sidekick is wonderful, too. His deadpan deliveries are priceless. Sela Ward is comically proficient, too, as the ranchowner's daughter who gets drug around by her horse; Marilu Henner doesn't have a lot to do, but as the hooker with the heart of gold and business savvy is good in her brief appearances; Andy Griffith is funny as heck as the ranch baron with a proclivity towards his ranch hands; Fernando Rey does well as the Italian train mogul. The whole cast is perfect; the direction is right on--congratulations, Mr. Wilson. There are a ton of priceless scenes, too many to mention. This movie should be considered a classic but somehow got overshadowed by BLAZING SADDLES, which is funny, too, but RHAPSODY is a lot less crude and overall, more consistent in its flow. Enjoy this one..it is a hoot!!!!
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Summary: The Best Sleeper Movie You Will Ever See!
Review: The first time I watched the movie I wasn't impressed. I didn't really want to watch it, however, my friends forced me! Like the ROOTS in the movie, it grows on you!!! Tom Berenger and Wild Fire are welcome at my house anytime!
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Summary: Missing Scene
Review: The scene where Rex get's his 'confidence' back from the rancher's daughter and the Talketive bar girl is missing, I haven't seen the VHS to see if it is missing from that edition as well. I still love the movie, though.
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Summary: An important sociological documentary
Review: The truth behind the legends of the Old West. The true function of the Sidekick: ironing shirts. Why the white hat never gets dirty: because there's LOTS of white hats -- and the corollary, how to tell a Good Guy: by the wardrobe. How these noble defenders of law and order manage to get by with no visible means of support: checks from Great Aunt Agatha back East. And you thought it was canned plots from hack writers? Naw, he's psychic. From the director of "Police Academy." (And Leonard Maltin is obviously a grinch.)
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Summary: Comedy Western Spoofs Matinee and Spaghetti Westerns
Review: This comedy western spoofs the Saturday matinee and spaghetti westerns with the good guy in a white hat, the bad guys in black, and a town drunk who endevours to become the hero's side-kick partner. With classic slapstick and one-liners that poke fun at westerns of old, this movie doesn't have a lot of flash and wit but it does a great work for nostalgia where the good guy is good, the bad guys are stupid, and the horses are spectacular.
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Summary: Blazing Saddles, or Rustler's Rhapsody, which one tonight?
Review: This has long been one of my favorite movies. Every one who knows me, or whom I meet, must at some point sit down with me and watch this extremely humorous video. Tom Berenger's Rex O'H. - The Singing Cowboy, makes a perfect 'Gooder Good Guy', especially with Rex's fashion sense. The story revolves, not around Rex, but around Peter, the town drunk, who aspires to become Rex's sidekick during an ensuing range war. Andy Griffith's 'Colonel', with his latent attraction to the hired-hands makes his one of the best characters in the film. And while it does use just about E-V-E-R-Y cliche from the westerns it could, from 30's hollywood to spaghetti westerns, the in-joke of the film is that Rex knows it's a cliche, but no one else in the lovely town of Oakwood Estates does. One of it's greatest strengths is the restraint not to 'neon' every joke and gag. Either you get it, or you don't. A lot of the humor plays out in the background, or even off camera, too impatient to wait around for the main action to conclude. Watch it more than once and you will find things going on you never noticed before. While I must concede that Blazing Saddles has more slapstick, and most of it extremely funny, It takes about five Blazing Saddles gags to equel 1 Rustler's. The theme song (the movies, not Rex's) is a true tribute to all the westerns of ours, our fathers, and even our grandfathers youths. So if it comes down to one or the other, I'm pullin up stakes, and movin' to Oakwood Estates, (or a small village near Oslo, Norway). Hey, my dog's name is Rex!
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Summary: Welcome to Oakwood Estates...
Review: This is a wonderful movie for those who love westerns and their cliches. Every cliche that ever appeared in a western has been lovingly put into this movie (i.e. bad guys with rifles are never a match for a good guy with a pistol). Tom Berenger plays Rex, the Singing Cowboy, with superb understatement. Andy Griffith plays the daft, dastardly Colonel perfectly (my favorite Griffith role). Marilou Henner and a young Sela Ward also appear. Be aware that this is a silly movie. If someone has to explain the humor of the opening sequence to you, it may not be for you. On, Wildfire, on!
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Summary: Superb!
Review: This is such a classic that I have it on laser disk and VHS. Wish I had it on DVD also.Although I am an attorney myself, I have to give five stars to Patrick Wayne's "lawyer line." Don't you know they had fun making this movie!
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Summary: Move over, Blazing Saddles
Review: This is the funniest western spoof ever! Tom Beringer, Andy Griffith, and everyone else, from Blackie to the shepherd's wife, are incredibly funny! Good guys who've played the role so many times it's as if they're psychic and bad guys too stupid to shoot straight are great send-ups of classic western stereotypes. I watch this movie every few months, and it never loses its punch.
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Summary: definate 5-star
Review: This is the greatest movie ever made! Well, maybee not, but it's up there in the top ten on my list.
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