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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wilder West, June 10, 2000
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This review is from: More Wild Wild West [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This video should still be available for all of us Wild Wild West and Robert Conrad fans out there. How anyone could think this was a terrible movie is beyond me. Of course, it was campy and the jokes were silly but such was the case in the popular show of the 60s. The video should be available if for no other reason than to see Conrad and Martin together again. What charisma they had... and so much better than the horrible motion picture rip off with Will Smith. That was a disaster! This reunion movie is a treasure and a remembrance of an earlier, simpler time when great actors like Conrad and Martin ruled the TV screens. It gets five stars for the actors and a five simply because it is Wild Wild West. Who cares if its a bit campy - some people are just too critical and take everything too seriously - you need to sit back, relax and let go for a while! Sometimes, things are meant just to be "fun." Any hope of this ever being re-released? I'd sure like a copy of this video. Thanks!
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
How the West Was Lost - Part 2, November 25, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: More Wild Wild West [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The dreadful "Wild, Wild West Revisited" (1978) garnered great ratings, no doubt because fans of the original show turned in to see their old pals, West and Gordon, pull off another old West espionage caper. But that ill-fated reunion movie was a campy misinterpretation of the original show. Think mid-1960s, but think "Batman," not "Wild, Wild West." Hollywood interpreted the nostalgia for the old series that still generated ratings 15 years later as a referendum for the new format. The result: Jonathan Winters as a mad scientist who, having turned himself invisible, threatens to provoke a world war by playing mischievous pranks on diplomats who will blame them on their colleagues from other nations. Winters might have actually been a more threatening villain if he had portrayed his hillbilly Maude Frickert personna of old. He plays the scientist so broadly that it would have been rejected as a disembodied voice on a low-budget Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Like West and Gordon, he constantly cracks jokes that lampoon the story and characters of the movie. Unfortunately West and Gordon are the butt of many jokes, as was the case in the last ill-fated reunion romp, including an idiotic scene in which they flee on zebras. The zebra scene might have worked in the old show had it been designed as exotic innovation, but here it's just another cheap joke. The ratings for this yarn were so low that no one talked about another reunion. Reportedly, it finally began to occur to the writers that viewers tuned into the previous turkey because they wanted to see another classic adventure -- and failed to tune into this sequel having been disillusioned by its predecessor. May we all do likewise, unless you're willing to stomach the ponderous shortcomings of this film for a chance at old-home week with West and Gordon. At best, this reunion will be bitter sweet.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Jim and Artie Deserved Better, September 26, 1999
This review is from: More Wild Wild West [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"More Wild Wild West" (1980) lacked the unique qualities that made the TV series so memorable. Spoofing this classic adventure show was a big mistake, which director Burt Kennedy never seemed to grasp. Once again, it's great seeing Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their famous roles, but they cannot redeem a silly script that plays everything for laughs. A missed opportunity.
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