Not everyone will like this movie. The premise is wonderful, but director John Favreau had a difficult choice to make. Does he play up the absurdity, or does he make a sci-fi horror movie that just happens to occur in the old west? It may have been because of the actors he was able to recruit that he decided to go with realism (of the War of the Worlds type). There actually is a lot of humor, but it's all deadpan, grounded in the craziness of the situations rather than in obvious parody or cheap one-liners (which will not be to the taste of a lot of viewers), though I would have preferred a little more open parody myself. There are also some plot elements that are not well explained, but anyone can enjoy the terrific ensemble acting, including Harrison Ford's over-the-top bad guy (who is as well realized as, say, Johnny Depp's pirate).
Review of Cowboys & Aliens
