Review of Go West

Go West (2023)
1/10
Can't pick an audience
21 August 2023
This movie drags and the editing is inconsistent. For example, they'll show one character who is very obviously in the rain, but when they cut to another person, they're bone dry. But when they show them together they've clearly been rained on. I want to believe this was a running gag, but when every joke is in your face and spelled out for you, I can only think otherwise. The sound mixing is awful and can't decide if it wants to be muffled or painfully loud.

The humor feels like thirty bad skits jumbled into one, with maybe two or three passable jokes. However, they follow the same formula almost every single time, and its predictability just leaves you annoyed. A few of these people are very talented actors, but they threw all of their talent out the window. Making funny faces and using funny voices does not a good joke make.

Every single man in this film is portrayed as weak, babyish, stupid, effeminate, or gross. And they make it clear that they think very little of men. The company captain literally sells his soul to the devil so he can get a pair of thigh-high stiletto boots. Adam plays a grown man who eats alphabet soup, talks like a baby, whines, cries, rides a rocking horse, and snuggles with a teddy bear. Whitney's entire character is solely dedicated to insulting men for being men under the guise of subverting feminine stereotypes. They make a comment about how white people can't wear sombreros or kimonos because of cultural appropriation. And the only "good" character is the main female protagonist, who is smart, brave, strong, and morally superior. They also like to make jokes at the expense of the bible and religious values, which I wouldn't have minded if those jokes were actually funny, and not just used for the purpose of turning faith into a joke in and of itself.

There's so much vomit, spit, snot, and farting. It's toddler humor, but there's a shocking amount of unnecessary blood. They pretend to be family friendly with cute little jokes and repetitive catch phrases, but then they toss in some of the most creepy and bizarrely mature things into the mix. For example, one of the men tells a woman to "keep it in her britches" when he thinks she's hot for someone. Matt is shown torturing the male protagonist with a hot iron, but then they make it all cutesy with farting and silly faces. There's a scene where Jason's character says his feet are sore, so he takes off his boot, and dumps a gallon of blood onto the ground for a solid minute. And even Jeremy plays a literal cannibal that wants to eat someone alive, and implies that he's already eaten a few others in the past, and attacks another character by trying to bite and consume his arm. It's not funny, it's disturbing, confusing, and borders on satanic.

Overall, the movie is egregiously boring, inconsistent, poorly acted, misandrist, unfunny, and obnoxious.
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