City Slickers Collection

Billy Crystal

Daniel Stern

Bruno Kirby

Patricia Wettig

Helen Slater

Lindsay Crystal

Noble Willingham

Jack Palance

Tracey Walter

Josh Mostel

David Paymer

Bill Henderson

Phill Lewis

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jeffrey Tambor

Kyle Secor

Dean Hallo

Karla Tamburrelli

Yeardley Smith

Robert Costanzo

Walker Brandt

Molly McClure

Jane Alden

Danielle Harris

Eddie Palmer

Howard Honig

Fred Maio

Jayne Meadows

Alan Charof

JJ Azan

Anne Lockhart

Robert Mickelson

Lana Underwood

Lowell Ganz

Lawrence G. Paull

Mark W. Mansbridge

Dean Semler

O. Nicholas Brown

Irby Smith

Marc Shaiman

Rick Simpson

Babaloo Mandel

Ron Underwood

Pam Dixon

Judy L. Ruskin

Ken Chase

Todd McIntosh

William A. Farley

Jerry Ballew

Edward D. Markley

Doug Metzger

Candida Conery

Peter Montagna

Mairin Blake

Robert J. Carlyle

Jeffrey Wetzel

James Ashwill

Patty Dobie

Charleen Richards-Steeves

Dick Lasley

Stan Tropp

Luigi Mugavero

Leonard T. Geschke

Tim Song Jones

Gary Kudroff

Jim Chory

Clete Cetrone

W. Scott Mason

William Kemper Wright

Alan Swain

Christopher Windisch

Hilda Hodges

Nils C. Jensen

John Roesch

Michael R. Gannon

Bob Beemer

Donald R. Abblett

Bobby Joe Garren

Geoff Hubbard

Tom Southwell

Dennis Butterworth

Mickey Gilbert

Mark Konkel

Clarence Lynn Price

Ray Rarick

George Baetz

Colin C. Mouat

Anthony Brand

Nina K. Noble

Irby Jay Smith Jr.

Renee Faia

Steven DeSantis

Louis L. Edemann

Kevin O'Connell

Matt Patterson

Rocco Gioffre

Fraser Clarke Heston

William A. Petrotta

John A. Scott III

Chuck Neely

Larry Singer

Larz Anderson

Paul Curley

Mike Higelmire

Bob O'Brien

Ellen Decker Franklin

Rick Kline

Alan L. Nineberg

Albert Delgado

Ken Pepiot

Suhail Kafity

Jerry Gatlin

Lance Gilbert

Tony Lee Boggs

R.J. Chambers

Jim Carne

Marla Shertz Wilson

Roger Stevenson

Thomas Whiting

Alfonso Casado

Chris Espeset

Leigh Feitelberg

Paul Iski

George Loomis

Brian Burrows

Tim Gilbert

Troy Gilbert

Mack MacReady

Mark Perzely

Michael Adams

Mark Davison

Nathaniel Goodman

Comedy

Western

City Slickers

Castle Rock Entertainment

Nelson Entertainment

Face Productions

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

Peter McGinn

This is is a fairly funny movie. Billy Crystal’s character and two friends head out for a dude ranch for an adventure vacation. The jokes come vast and furious as do the sight gags. Jack Palance made a bit of a name for himself with his cowboy antics and one-armed pushups.

My favorite scene had nothing to do with dude ranch stuff. Mitch (Crystal) is explaining how a DVD recorder doesn’t even require the tv to record a show, and his friend just isn’t getting it. It’s hilarious. This isn’t a movie classic or anything, but plenty entertaining enough.

CinemaSerf

As their fortieth birthdays loom large and illustrate to "Mitch" (Billy Crystal), "Ed" (Bruno Kirby) and "Phil" (Daniel Stern) that their high-powered city jobs are ultimately quite unfulfilling, they decide to take up the challenge of herding some cows from Mexico up to Colorado. Completely unused to the wilderness, or indeed to anything without air-conditioning and comfort, they are put under the charge of the gnarly "Curly" (Jack Palance) who's disdain for this hapless trio is fairly clear from the outset. What chance they can adapt their city attitudes to cope with all that nature can throw at them? Well on that front there's not the slightest bit of jeopardy, it's all about their "journey". There, I think it will all depend on whether or not you like Billy Crystal's style of semi-slapstick comedy. I don't really and so wasn't particularly engaged as this sort of merged John Wayne with Laurel and Hardy. Palance looks like he's enjoying himself, and easily steals the show with his facial expressions conveying just as much as the rather predictable script. Stern also delivers quite entertainingly as they battle with the cattle and the snakes that rattle amidst some stunning New Mexico scenery that sets up the story perfectly. It's a story about recalibrating life and on that score it sends quite a powerful message about people stopping every now and again to appreciate what they had/have and to take stock of what they want to come next. That thrust epitomises the difference between the urban and the rural, their population's who do and those who talk about doing quite well - but the humour was just all bit lame for me and the whole thing takes too long to finish where I always thought it would.