Maybe you have to be very familiar with old B-movie American westerns to fully enjoy Rustler's Rhapsody and since I'm not all that familiar with the genre I don't think too highly of this film.
That's not to say it's unfunny, it truly has it's moments but they're not very many and a bit far between. Tom Berenger does well as The Singing Cowboy who rides alone and squares matters in every town. The main spoof here is that every western followed the same formula and so Berenger can predict what's gonna happen each time.
The cast is earnest. G.W. Baily is sporadically funny as the town drunk who becomes Berenger's sidekick, Fernando Rey is very good as the embodiment of a Spaghetti Western villain (one of the film's more funnier scenes is the spoof on their wardrobe and better background music) and the rest (Andy Griffith, Marilu Henner and Sela Ward) fare well enough. I just wished they could have used Jim Carter more (Déja Vu from Top Secret). His confrontation with Berenger in the beginning is a riot.
The problem is mainly that it's paper thin premise doesn't go many places. Berenger's ability to predict what's gonna happen takes up most of the film's jokes. As said I'm not all that familiar with the genre apart from a few movies so I could well enough have missed some jokes.
Rustler's Rhapsody is thus an O.K. way to spend an hour and a half but I didn't laugh out loud that often.
That's not to say it's unfunny, it truly has it's moments but they're not very many and a bit far between. Tom Berenger does well as The Singing Cowboy who rides alone and squares matters in every town. The main spoof here is that every western followed the same formula and so Berenger can predict what's gonna happen each time.
The cast is earnest. G.W. Baily is sporadically funny as the town drunk who becomes Berenger's sidekick, Fernando Rey is very good as the embodiment of a Spaghetti Western villain (one of the film's more funnier scenes is the spoof on their wardrobe and better background music) and the rest (Andy Griffith, Marilu Henner and Sela Ward) fare well enough. I just wished they could have used Jim Carter more (Déja Vu from Top Secret). His confrontation with Berenger in the beginning is a riot.
The problem is mainly that it's paper thin premise doesn't go many places. Berenger's ability to predict what's gonna happen takes up most of the film's jokes. As said I'm not all that familiar with the genre apart from a few movies so I could well enough have missed some jokes.
Rustler's Rhapsody is thus an O.K. way to spend an hour and a half but I didn't laugh out loud that often.