Bruno Kirby
Daniel Stern
Patricia Wettig
Helen Slater
Jack Palance
The fun in the movie is when Billy Crystal starts making jokes, and not
in the over 1 hour 50 minutes spent watching him do it. City Slickers was good
to watch, but to me the movie is a little overhyped. After you see a movie done
in the 90s you expect it to be great, but this one is just there.
The movie is about three men in their late 30s realizing that life has
more to offer than what they are stuck with. What led to that and how they
discover it is what writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel put together for us
to watch. Both writers have been at it for a while, with movies like Multiplicity
(1996) and Robots (2005) under their belt.
City Slickers did nab an Academy Award though. Jack Palance went home
with Best Actor in a Supporting Role and also won the Golden Globe Award for
Best Supporting Actor.
The movie plot has three men who decide to go on a trip and be cowboys
for two weeks, which involves herding a group of cattle.
In their journey they experience death, birth and near-death.
City Slickers is seen as a form of a classic, but the movie to me is
missing the key ingredient for a classic. Although it happens to be one, it got
a 90% approval rating on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes and can be
found on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs at number 86.
Ron Underwood (Mighty Joe Young 1998) was the man behind the wheel in
this one, a wheel I believe he held too loosely. The movie dragged for almost 2
hours, most of which were wasted watching the characters discussing
pointlessly.
The movie had a $26 million budget and was a commercial success, making
over $179 million at the box office. Due to that financial success, Billy
Crystal (who produced this movie) produced a sequel that was released three
years later. The sequel was a flop. Although some of the old cast returned, it
currently holds a 19% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was also a
commercial failure, as it cost 10 million more than the first and only managed
to make a little over $43 million.
Did I enjoy City Slickers? Yes. Will I like to see it again? No!
This is one of those movies I feel everyone has to see once.
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