
Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.... (Full plot summary below)
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Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.
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| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarCrystal’s ordinariness — his utter lack of glamour — really works for him here. He’s far more pleasureful to watch in this sort of dramatic-comedy role than, say, Robin Williams, because his comfy, urban-shlemiel personality helps ground the jokes. |
| Slant MagazineArthur Ryel-LindseyEqually self-reflective and enjoyable is the score by Marc Shaiman and Thomas Richard Sharp that cuts a sweeping western theme into the waltz and college-sports tunes that color the film’s animated title sequence and then throughout its more comic set pieces—not even cutting out entirely during Crystal and company’s rendition of the Bonanza theme song. Rather, like the film itself, it beautifully accents Crystal’s high notes. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCity Slickers comes packaged as one kind of movie - a slapstick comedy about white-collar guys on a dude ranch - and it delivers on that level while surprising me by being much more ambitious, and successful, than I expected. This is the proverbial comedy with the heart of truth, the tear in the eye along with the belly laugh. It's funny, and it adds up to something. |
| Common Sense MediaHeather BoernerLassos midlife-crisis laughs; teens and up. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrDirector Ron Underwood (Tremors) does a fair job navigating all the key changes proposed by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel's script, and with the actors' help he makes this a diverting if bumpy ride. |
| Battleship PretensionDavid BaxCrystal's then-hegemonic stardom constantly realigns the film into his, not his character's, orbit. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonMany of the character exchanges are priceless (including a discussion on how to properly program a VCR), and the performances are uniformly fine. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJeff MenellAlong the way most of what transpires is predictable and manipulative. But besides the formula stuff, there is an abundance of fresh humor, poignant dialogue and some rather credible performances. |
| EmpireLloyd BradleyWitty one-liners one-liners crackle and cowboy cliches are given a good kicking as the three stars give excellent accounts of themselves. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfThankfully, Crystal is more than willing to hog the screen with his whining, impressions, and glorious chemistry with Palance, whose entire performance is based around inconsistent levels of exhaling. |