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• Steampunk Power! — for Wild Wild West
  Written by Kopainkopine on 05.07.2010

  I wanted to see a funny action movie ... I have chosen this one. Even if i hate Will Smith, I really enjoy this movie. I'll explain myself.

  The storyline: Basic. Mad scientist who wants to control the world against an impulsive black cowboy who loves his guns and fists & an inventor marshall who creates some strange stuff to solve problems without violence. Of course they are helped by a kind of "sexy girl" in order to satisfy the audience.

  The characters: Originals (except Salma Hayek).The couple Will Smith/ Kevin Kline (bad boy vs gentleman) is great! It works and it's not boring. They are totally opposed so good rythm and fun... The bad scientist (awesome Kenneth Branagh) is hilarous (ass bowl, strange beard, crazy look). You can find him too exuberant but this is the character! Fight scenes are composed by interesting ideas (disguises, ropes, train with gizmos...). The dialogs are quick and sharp. Never the time to breathe in fact.

  The landscape: An unique environnement. The scene takes place in an unexpected Wild West. Endless deserts, dilligences, horses ... and steampunk machines! It gives a Sci Fi feeling. The mechanical spider is a sucess! However sometimes the insertion of the characters is awful (bad special effects and chroma key).

  To sum up, good movie. No master piece but not bad at all. If you want to have fun during 1h40 and not thinking too much, watch it!

• Wild Wild WTF? — for Wild Wild West
  Written by OhLookBirdies on 18.11.2009

  Let's get this out of the way first: Wild Wild West is not actually a good film. It is delightfully terrible in every possible way, but despite that, I love it.

  The storyline? Ridiculous. A mad doctor, who wants to make his fortune by forcing the president to sell off the United States, or else he will destroy the country with his giant, steam-powered spider robot.

  The heroes? A black captain and a self-proclaimed master-of-disguise and inventor US Marshal, who of course spend the entire film arguing, as is tradition in this sort of comedy.

  The special effects? Technically well done, but once again, utterly ridiculous. There's the aforementioned robot spider, a prehistoric motorbike turned into an aeroplane, a hypno-disc bra, magnetized collars at which giant revolving sawblades are fired... The list goes on.

  The jokes are stale, the acting is so over the top it becomes a parody of acting, the sex scenes aren't sexy, the action scenes are completely beyond belief, the plot twists aren't very twisty, and yet, like I mentioned earlier, none of this seems to matter.

  So yeah. I will gladly admit to this film being one of my guilty pleasures. It's a bit like eating hamburgers: You know there's nothing good in them, you know they make you fat and give you acne, and yet you can't help but enjoy them, every time you have one.