I wasn't counting but I don't think there were a million ways to die here. What you have though is the "Bad Santa" of Western movies, a veritable "Blazing Saddles" on steroids by the time this thing runs it's course. I'm not big on the toilet humor aspects of the dialog here, but a lot of the picture actually was funny, leaving me more positive than negative on the movie. What MacFarlane's not afraid to do is take all the stereotypical PC nonsense and stand it on it's head, like you have in the runaway slave shooting gallery and the Islamic Death Chant. Maybe there was some outrage over this stuff when the flick came out but I didn't hear about it, but as you can see I'm a little late to this party. There was some clever stuff in the picture like the 'nobody's got a dollar' bit, the picture of the smiling guy, and the cowboy midgets, reminiscent of a real old time flick from 1938 - "The Terror of Tiny Town" with an all midget cast for a Western. Also somewhat derivative is the final showdown, hearkening back to the Gene Hackman/Sharon Stone spoof from 1995, "The Quick and The Dead". For me, the rapid fire one liners and snappy dialog get my attention, and total nonsense like Christopher Lloyd's cameo is always a treat. It shows that Seth MacFarlane is all over the place as a writer and nothing is too goofy that can't be worked into a script. I wonder what Clint Eastwood thought of Clinch Leatherwood.
