PodBill Just what I expected

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Tasteful comedy driven to trained audiences from hollywood success formula, the story is compeling with Daniel Stern overcame the power comedians trio,Criystal although be a top billing is unfunny,bad jokes,Jack Palance is another highlights of the casting,died early unfortunately,the sequel is much better!!Resume:First watch: 1998 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7

richspenc I always liked "City slickers " due to the smart alec comments made by Billy Crystal (Mitch), Daniel Stern (Phil), Bruno Kirby (Ed) and Jack Palace (Curly). The scene where Lisa Simpson, I mean Lisa Yeardly walks into Mitch's apartment is still a classic scene to me. When you hear her talk in this film and shut your eyes you swear you're listening to a Simpsons episode. Yeardly never even put on an acting voice for Lisa Simpson, that high pitched voice was always her real voice. I wonder if anyone ever noticed when Mitch and Phil are talking about how he has to open his store up at 4am, and Mitch asks "don't you have someone else to do it?", and Phil says to Mitch "Arlene's dad always wants me to do it. No free rides Billy boy, no free rides". Did Phil call Mitch by his real life name, Billy as in Billy Crystal, on purpose, or was that an error done when filming? I always wondered that. Anyway, I always found Mitch's obsession with death and getting older interesting. Especially the scene when Mitch is talking to his son's fourth grade classroom and literally walking through each decade of life and the most accurate things that usually occurred during each decade. Every decade he mentioned had a ring a truth and was very funny with the way he put it. I read somewhere once that Billy Crystal in real life has had similar fascinations with the art of aging, and his character in Mr. Saturday night also had similar fixations. I still enjoy watching all of the out west portions of City slickers with the roughneck cowboys, the dentist father and son("that's right, we're black and we're dentists, let's not make an issue about it." His dad's response to him; "they're not making an issue, you're making an issue"), I still find that funny. The ice cream brothers Ira and Barry (an obvious reference to Ben and Jerry's). I still never understood what the 'right' flavor of ice cream was, according to Ira and Barry, to go at the end of every meal. Isn't that always different for everybody? When Mitch asks them "how do you know you're right?", Barry responds "Hundreds of outlets across the country, that's how I know". That never made sense to me. How would the people who are selling the ice cream know what flavor ice cream people are eating after what meal? My favorite parts of the West sequences are, besides all the cows, and the constant mentioning of them, and besides Ed's fixation on the need to sleep with lots of different women instead of just one, are the scenes with Curly, especially with Curly and Mitch. Curly, while riding off with Mitch after the coffee machine/cows running away incident: "You guys go ahead, I'll catch up". Mitch: "you mean we'll catch up". Curly then gives Mitch a look to hint that he could be wrong. Mitch:"hi Curly, kill anyone today?" Curly:"day ain't over yet." Those comments were what helped make this film so good. About the secret of life, it's just one thing bit; realistically that is a little too simplified and vague to be taken as a serious answer to someone really struggling to find happiness, hope, and success in their lives. If finding the secret of life was that easy, there still wouldn't be so many unhappy and troubled people in the world. Mitch tells Phil and Ed that the secret is to find what's most important to you. Sometimes, what's most important is not that easy to get. What if what's most important is to make six figures a year, or to become an airline pilot, not everyone is gonna be able to achieve those things. I'm not saying that some people won't be able to achieve what's most important, I'm just saying it's gonna be a little more complicated than to just say to find that one thing. One last thing, Roger Ebert said that Jack Palace's character really seemed like a survivor of an earlier time. I don't agree. There were a lot of things about his character that were not that similar a match to typical early 20th century people, and I often watch films from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

Hollywood_Yoda Aside from Blazing Saddles, City Slickers stands as the best comedy western made in the last 25 years. An excellent film starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and the iconic Jack Palance (in his Oscar winning role).The story was deeper than just comedy, and the dialogue was really great. The story itself had a lot of heart, each main character was dealing with something different than the other. And the dialogue between the cast was more natural than one would expect from comedy.If you enjoy comedy and/or westerns, watch this film, you'll be glad you did. You'll be hooked from the beginning and you'll hang on to every scene.

FilmBuff1994 City Slickers is a good movie with a well written storyline and an impressive comedic cast. It has many very funny parts and it is also quite sweet as we follow the friendship of these three men, their is great chemistry between all three and you could tell they were real life friends. It easily could have been an outstanding, unforgettable comedy, which many people think it is, and though I did laugh a lot, I find it pretty forgettable and none of the quotes will stick with me. I definitely don't think Jack Palance deserved the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, he did a great job and Curly is a very likable character, but it simply isn't a performance, nor is it a movie, strong enough for an award of this prestige. It's certainly not outstanding or unforgettable, but City Slickers is fun while it lasts and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a comedy to kill some time. A man unhappy with his life is talked in to going on a cattle drive with his two closest friends. Best Performance: Billy Crystal Worst Performance: Patricia Wettig