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Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
Picturehouse
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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language and some sex-related humor
Starring
Vince Vaughn,
Ahmed Ahmed,
John Caparulo,
Bret Ernst,
Sebastian Maniscalco,
and
Peter Billingsley
Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show chronicles the journey of Vince Vaughn and four stand-up comedians as they traverse the country performing in a live variety show. In the spirit of the Old West variety shows, Vaughn plays host to the ensemble of comedians and performs improvisational sketches with surprise celebrity and musical guests. Vaughn handpicked four national comedians from Los Angeles’ world famous Comedy Store—Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst and Sebastian Maniscalco—to perform on the tour. The film provides audiences a rare opportunity to experience Vaughn and his team as they travel over 6,000 miles across the heartland of America and perform 30 shows in 30 days. Traveling to cities that don’t ordinarily attract this type of entertainment, Vaughn and his team
bring their unique styles and perspectives to regional audiences throughout Western, Southern and Midwestern states. Through rousing onstage performances and behind-the-scenes interviews, this engaging film breaks down the true essence of each comedian’s life-altering experiences and the personal and professional challenges that will unite four comics, one movie star and legions of fans from Hollywood to the Heartland. (Picturehouse)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ari Sandel
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 3, 2008
Theatrical: February 8, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
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.
75
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.
75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The end result is an entertaining tour film.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
A funny comedy, and sometimes an even better drama.
75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
This engaging documentary is briskly funny.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Surprisingly endearing and chock-full of a genuine appreciation of the moment.
70
Washington Post
John Anderson
A very engaging trip along the cutting edge of America's funny bone.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Has a loosey-goosey, what-the-hell spirit that's easy and fun to hook into.
67
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.
63
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.
63
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
Vaughn could have used an editor, but Wild West still is a romp with a likable bunch.
58
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's almost like you're watching a 100-minute trailer for a much better six-hour miniseries.
50
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.
50
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.
50
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.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Intermittent moments of mild amusement ensue.
50
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.
50
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.
50
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
Ungainly titled, overlong, intermittently funny.
50
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.
40
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.
40
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.
33
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
West is heavy on Vaughn, at least initially, but woefully short on comedy.
25
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.
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