From Deseret News archives:

Wagons East

Published: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1994 12:00 a.m. MDT
 |  E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - 

"Wagons East" (which does not have an exclamation point on the film's title - that's just in the ads) is a sad farewell for John Candy, who died during production earlier this year.

Candy made a lot of dud comedies during his career but this is one of the worst, lacking any discernible humor and paling in comparison to such other comedy Westerns as "Blazing Saddles" and "Support Your Local Sheriff," which did a much better job of sending up cowpoke cliches.

Candy plays a drunken wagonmaster hired to take a bunch of disillusioned Easterners back home, including a gay bookseller (John C. McGinley), a hooker with a heart of gold (Ellen Greene), an uptight banker (Robert Picardo) and a cattle rancher named Phil (Richard Lewis).

The players seem game and the basic story isn't a bad idea - but the execution is extremely poor, with a soggy script and perfunctory direction that mutes any intended humor.

"Wagons East" is rated PG-13 for violence, sex, profanity, vulgarity and a nude painting prominently displayed in a saloon.

Comments

You can be the first to comment on this story.

Movie Info
Rated PG for violence, profanity, vulgarity, nudity, sex.

Cast: John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene.
FIND LOCAL MOVIE SHOWTIMES
previousnext

Latest comments

mendivil is going to arizona state. Hamson and dahl are BYU

i do believe steve fisher won a national championship at a football school in...

coach homer rocks!!!

I'm guessing you had the same prediction last year, too? Remember 48-24....

Utah Jazz fall apart against Kings

I will take that further Mailman..Jeff Malone and Jeff Hornacek were...

Utes look toward title showdown

"for all intents and purposes, the Utah-TCU game is the MWC championship...

Way to go WARRIORS. What a great bunch of girls, coaching staff, parents and...

Letters: Let others live own lives

'Til the cows come home. 'Til the fat lady sings. 'Til pigs fly. To...

I read the "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand earlier this year. A friend, who has...

Bennett's anti-Obama TV ad

BOB? He's an INCUMBENT. He's a REPUBLICAN. He votes against AMERICA...

Advertisements
Advertisement