It is a performances centric movie

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Okay, this isn't "Blazing Saddles". Heck, this isn't even " The Terror of Tiny Town". But it is an innocently funny family oriented western spoof that's kind of like the "Blazing Saddles" prototype, since it came out a little earlier. The plot involves an "evil" outlaw (John Astin, who played Gomez in The Addams Family) who is forced to mend his ways by his goody two shoes girlfriend, but has to turn back to his old ways to steal her back from the man she is supposed to marry. There are also a lot of really funny moments that remind me of a late 60's- early 70's sit com, probably because it was made for TV in 1971. There are some really enjoyable actors in here, including the aforementioned John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Dom Delouise, Pat Morita, and John Ritter, Ed Begley,Jr., and Penny Marshall in very small parts. So, entertaining and funny, though it seems a bit too long. Warning: The DVD is very cheap. Be prepared to expect pops and freezes.

it made me a professional comedian and I owe it to the movie and my dad [email protected] if u want to email me. I'm now disabled. and look foreword to chatting with anyone. this movie made me what i am today i was a small comedian at the age of 5 and stood on the coffee table doing rich little imitations ranging from Lyndon banes Johnson to foster brooks, also Richard Nixon's i am not a crook speech. I look bask now and see how much influence that type of comedic style influenced me. Also a special thanks to my Dad who is now deceased, but making me stand in front of mom and dads company took away the butterfly's that i never had since I was little. this is one of the funniest movies from some writers who were way before their time, thanks hunter green, formerly of the green brothers morning comedy show across most Froggy stations.

Super comedy, let's have this on DVD. I watched this movie as a teenager with my family and we loved it! My dad was a big western fan and he laughed all the way through the movie. My brothers and I grew up on classic westerns and then the anti-hero westerns of Clint Eastwood. I for one did not believe that a western could also be a comedy. This film really works. Evil Roy is a memorable character and will make you chuckle for days, weeks and years after wards. This movie has great performances and a script that is funny by parodying the genre. However there is nothing mean or nasty here, there is a real affection for the traditional western.

Sneakin', Lyin', Arrogance, Dirtiness, and Evil. Put 'em all together and they spell Slade. For people who like Airplane, Hot Shots, and Top Secret, who get the high art of low comedy, this movie is a must see. Before Airplane there were two really great parodies in The Big Bus and Evil Roy Slade. Both of them boasted great casts and took dead aim at the western and disaster movie genres.Slade has an outstanding cast consisting of, among other notables, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, and if you don't blink, Ed Begley Jr. and Penny Marshall (Gerry Marshall being one of the writers). Still for me, it's John "Gomez" Astin that makes the movie, playing the unreformabley bad to the bone Evil Roy. At one point he is asked, "If you had six apples and your neighbor took three of them, what would you have?" To which he replies, "A dead neighbor and all six apples."In the end, this movie, despite a thinly veiled comment on capital punishment, is purely about entertainment, so as long as you remember that and check your snob-stick at the door, you should thoroughly enjoy it.