Review of Wagons East! (1994) by Erin F — 25 Jun 2008

The film's biggest assets are the quirky characters and the well defined story lines and sub-plots. For a film of this genre, the directors and actors did a good job of keeping the film from going stale. The pacing and the balance of slapstick with subtle one-liners adds to the appeal. For a comedy to have Native American characters actually speaking in Lakota is worthy of special mention.

My favorite character in the film is Julian. He epitomizes the film's emphasis on satirizing the rich and powerful and exposing the absurdity of many of the most common and destructive stereotypes still present in Motion Pictures.