The show became viral on YouTube for its smart, family friendly humor based on relatable premises - like dating, family drama and painful sports injuries - taken to absurd heights. JK Studios is a group founded by the original cast of Studio C, a family-friendly sketch comedy show co-developed by original cast member Matt Meese and produced by Brigham Young University, a university in Provo Utah, affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is part and parcel of JK Studios’ brand. So it’s great to see someone bring it back. This was always a favorite kind of movie for me and my college buddies to bond over. But it actually has more in common with movies like “Airplane!” and “Top Secret,” parody films that create just enough plot and character that you care about the heroes and want them to succeed and then focus on jam-packing each minute with as many belly laughs as possible. The movie’s previews describe “Go West” as “Monty Python and The Holy Grail” meets the Old West. Best of all, most of the jokes land, whether they’re making fun of the time period of the Old West, “You can do anything if you believe” platitudes, or how being a young man means you’re always the workhorse for whenever people need you. The strength comes largely from its writing, which is razor sharp with first off deadpan one-liners and absurd visual gags a mile a minute every minute. This film is genuinely one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. On the way they encounter a whole host of wacky and dangerous characters on a series of sometimes dangerous and sometimes hilarious adventures and misadventures. “Go West” follows Widow Aveline Jenkins (Natalie Madsen) and her sister Cora (Mallory Everton) as they travel the Old West to save Aveline’s daughter from marrying an outlaw. “Go West” takes that risk, and it pays off. In that environment, making a pure comedy is a big risk. And if they do want to just turn off their brain for a while, there’s plenty of YouTube videos and TikTok memes to choose from. Furthermore, as fewer and fewer Americans have close personal relationships or identify with a religion, they are looking to movies to explain their place in the world to them. In a social commentary comedy, if the laughs lag, you still have the commentary. Comedy is hard.” In an action-comedy, like most superhero movies, if not all the laughs land, you still have the action. It’s understandable why pure comedies have fallen out of favor in the entertainment world. Whatever happened to just like, we want to make people laugh?” And every executive is like, ‘But why should we make this now?’ Because it’s funny. “I feel like nowadays, you get to the end of what you think is a comedy, and you’re like, ‘Is that about global warming? Is there some sort of deep hidden message that I’m supposed to recycle more?‘” Devine said. Not everyone is happy about this, with comedians like Adam Devine bemoaning how comedies can’t just be comedies they have to have a message. Superhero movies rule the day, and what comedies there are, such as “Don’t Look Up” and “Barbie,” are more rightly described as social satires where the comedy is more of a vehicle for its social commentary than built around making people laugh. (REVIEW) “Go West” is a rare modern comedy that is interested in making you laugh rather than serving a message, and–even better–actually brings the laughs.Ĭomedies aren’t as common at the movies as they used to be.
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