Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland

Chicago Tribune Sid Smith

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.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

It's a mouthful of a title for a rowdy, ramshackle funfest that flies by on its spirited humor and surprising heart.

TV Guide Ken Fox

The end result is an entertaining tour film.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

A funny comedy, and sometimes an even better drama.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

This engaging documentary is briskly funny.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Surprisingly endearing and chock-full of a genuine appreciation of the moment.

Washington Post John Anderson

A very engaging trip along the cutting edge of America's funny bone.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Has a loosey-goosey, what-the-hell spirit that's easy and fun to hook into.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols

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.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The movie's amiable, impulsive, intense, and scattershot, and since those are qualities associated with Vaughn himself, in the end it's a fair representation.

USA Today Staff [Not Credited]

Vaughn could have used an editor, but Wild West still is a romp with a likable bunch.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

It's almost like you're watching a 100-minute trailer for a much better six-hour miniseries.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Wild 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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Audiences 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.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

A 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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Intermittent moments of mild amusement ensue.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Though 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.

The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore

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.

Variety Eddie Cockrell

Ungainly titled, overlong, intermittently funny.

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

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.

Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt

Onscreen it all plays out like some sort of self-coronation, a celebration of the boy Vaughn’s rise to the heights of superstardom.

New York Magazine David Edelstein

It 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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

West is heavy on Vaughn, at least initially, but woefully short on comedy.

New York Post Kyle Smith

A 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.