***SPOILERS DRAGGING ALONG***
The infamous Trinity: 'Right Hand of the Devil' by name, but known better as 'The Laziest Gun in the West'. If the opening sequence of our 'hero' being dragged slowly across the desert on a litter doesn't give it away, his non-reaction to being dragged through a river will.
This movie set the running gags for all those to follow: the dirt, the lackadaisical attitude, the interplay between Trinity and Bambino, and the grotesque eating scenes. These movies do seem to put comedy before the western aspects; dirt aside, they're not really gritty. This is not 'Lonesome Dove', by a long shot.
Terence Hill and Bud Spencer made a slew of movies together, not all of them westerns, and not all of them watchable (see any of their cop movies for evidence), but they did have great chemistry. Hill always played an impish but earnest thorn in Spencer's side, and Bud Spencer essayed his roles as a malevolent Oliver Hardy type. All he really lacked was Hardy's trademark exasperated look into the camera.
If I could ask for one improvement, it would be better choreography in the many fight scenes, but you can't expect a whole lot from Spaghetti Westerns on this score, anyway.
The infamous Trinity: 'Right Hand of the Devil' by name, but known better as 'The Laziest Gun in the West'. If the opening sequence of our 'hero' being dragged slowly across the desert on a litter doesn't give it away, his non-reaction to being dragged through a river will.
This movie set the running gags for all those to follow: the dirt, the lackadaisical attitude, the interplay between Trinity and Bambino, and the grotesque eating scenes. These movies do seem to put comedy before the western aspects; dirt aside, they're not really gritty. This is not 'Lonesome Dove', by a long shot.
Terence Hill and Bud Spencer made a slew of movies together, not all of them westerns, and not all of them watchable (see any of their cop movies for evidence), but they did have great chemistry. Hill always played an impish but earnest thorn in Spencer's side, and Bud Spencer essayed his roles as a malevolent Oliver Hardy type. All he really lacked was Hardy's trademark exasperated look into the camera.
If I could ask for one improvement, it would be better choreography in the many fight scenes, but you can't expect a whole lot from Spaghetti Westerns on this score, anyway.