What begins auspiciously as a clear homage-parody to a bajillion Westerns -- from the credit typeface to the panning shots of the Badlands to the saturated russets and burnished  golds of the Arizona desert, to the honky tonk wooden outpost town with its SALOON and HOTEL signs giving you the thumbs-up on where swinging-door action will occur as soon as the bad guys arrive (Liam Neeson as gunslinger Clinch) -- loses a tranche of its obvious demographic by being riddled with dirty words and unnecessary sexual imagery and situations. MacFarlane’s Ted (2012) made $549 million in a global gold rush. Quoth our companion: “Well, suppose it’s because they figured all the movies today supply that same kind of thing…” Maybe. To which we say: ‘Tis a pity there’s so much whorishness in a film that comes near to rivaling Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles. There are, to be sure, guaranteed whoops in the endless recourse to farts, massive...(Read Full Article)