- Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
- Release Date: Feb 8, 2008
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75It's a mouthful of a title for a rowdy, ramshackle funfest that flies by on its spirited humor and surprising heart.
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Native Chicagoan Vaughn remains enigmatic, protected from the camera’s more candid intrusion. But you get a sense of his deep values, virtuous instincts and quiet love of ordinary people.
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75This engaging documentary is briskly funny.
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75A funny comedy, and sometimes an even better drama.
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75The end result is an entertaining tour film.
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70Surprisingly endearing and chock-full of a genuine appreciation of the moment.
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A very engaging trip along the cutting edge of America's funny bone.
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67Has a loosey-goosey, what-the-hell spirit that's easy and fun to hook into.
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Though you might expect a film of a bunch of performers on a bus to explode with camaraderie and high jinks, the Wild West Comedy Show offers only standard patter about how hard it is for four dudes to share a bathroom, a map graphic between scenes, and one -- just one! -- priceless moment.
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63Vaughn could have used an editor, but Wild West still is a romp with a likable bunch.
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63The movie's amiable, impulsive, intense, and scattershot, and since those are qualities associated with Vaughn himself, in the end it's a fair representation.
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58It's almost like you're watching a 100-minute trailer for a much better six-hour miniseries.
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Shot on sometimes lousy-looking video, it seems unreasonable to ask audiences to pay to see this picture on a big screen. But "Wild West," particularly with a bit of editing, would be a standout on cable, where shoddy production values would be eclipsed by some very funny material and the emcee presence of a sometimes charismatic (and sometimes obviously road-weary) star.
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50Wild West Show would have really been something if Vaughn had taken a few of his fellow Frat Packers with him - say, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Steve Carell - instead of the struggling unknowns.
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50Intermittent moments of mild amusement ensue.
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50Audiences can watch any number of similarly talented comics on late-night television or, even better, get close to the action at a downtown comedy club.
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The doc provides plenty of backstory (meeting the comics' families offers generous context to material heard earlier in the film). But in the end, it's the bits involving Vaughn and his celeb guests that linger.
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50Though it includes some moderately funny snippets of actual performances, Wild West Comedy Show is not a concert film. We never see a complete performance or even a quarter of one.
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50Ungainly titled, overlong, intermittently funny.
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50A good concert film might have been culled from Vaughn's 30-date LA-to-Chicago tour in September 2005, which showcased stand-up comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco and included bits with Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Dwight Yoakam, Justin Long, and Keir O'Donnell. But this is more like a DVD extra for that film.
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Onscreen it all plays out like some sort of self-coronation, a celebration of the boy Vaughn’s rise to the heights of superstardom.
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40It was undoubtedly a great experience for everyone involved, and the show itself might have been a romp. But as a movie, Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show makes you think of the days in which troupes that didn’t deliver were run out of town, bullets pinging off their heels.
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33West is heavy on Vaughn, at least initially, but woefully short on comedy.
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25A 2 1/2-year-old collection of mediocre stand-up routines and dull backstage chatter, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show demonstrates why comedy clubs require you to have a couple of drinks.
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DonaldT.0This is the worst movie I have seen in over a year. It is the worst documentary I have seen in over a year. What were they thinking?
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