Review of Buddy Goes West (1981) by Dave J — 17 Mar 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014.
(1981) Buddy Goes West/ Occhio alla penna.
DUBBED.
SPAGHETTI WESTERN COMEDY.
If I was like 5 or 6 years old, I might've suck up this movie, since kids in general can have very short attention spans, and that everything would've been funny to me. The movie is full of fights that's similar to "The Three Stooges", but in an unconvincing kind of fashion. It stars Bud Spencer of many Spaghetti Westerns, he plays Buddy which he manages to convince the cavalry to let go a Native American who barely can't speak any English, named Eagle Eye played by Amidou. At this point, Buddy want to part ways, but Eagle Eye still want to remain close to him, unbeknownst what the reasons are, for he appears that he doesn't belong to any tribe and is completely rogue- he also may have a felt a certain amount of obligation for saving his life. Anyways, upon ducking into a train, Eagle Eye then chases it only to pretend to rob it for continents of a bag, thinking that's there's gold in there. Buddy decides to go along with it, pretending to be Eagle Eye's hostage. And it was at this point where there relationship start to escalate. They then come through a town, dealing with a conniving and deceitful sheriff, which both Buddy and Eagle Eye become saviors of the town itself. Because it's supposed to be a movie that is somewhat intentioned for kids, since a high percentage of Spaghetti Westerns are violent for it really plays like the Italian version of Disney's The Apple Dumpling Gang which people can be hit so many times without any signs of any bruises and blood and so forth, and for cheap laughs.
2 out of 4 stars.
This review of Buddy Goes West (1981) was written by Dave J on 17 Mar 2014.
Buddy Goes West has generally received mixed reviews.
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