Miss Dynamite / Tutti fratelli nel West … per parte di padre (Sergio Grieco, 1972)

[Mickey13]

Copied from the Spagvemberfest 2023 thread:

@Mickey13

The good news is that the film is not so bad in that both the technical execution and the cast prove solid enough to make the work somewhat more entertaining than it otherwise would be. The bad news is that there is simply not enough meat on the bone and the storyline feels largely vacuous and too bland to sustain one’s attention throughout film’s duration. The underlying premise is passable, but there is simply not enough elaboration and variety to make it stick, so the viewer is simply forced to sit through the string of predominantly lame jokes with not much in the way of a interesting story to anchor them in the narrative.

As a consequence of the aforementioned factors, the work comes to exhibit the characteristics of a lazy cash grab with a manifest want of originality and enthusiasm for the handled material which in turn telegraphs a sense of helplessness and effects tedium in the process. Sabato and Stander do their best to animate the production and by and large, manage to improve the experience to some extent, but there is only so much they can do within their limited capacity and there is only so much Grieco’s technically solid rendition may amend when the tale is this nondescript and devoid of surprises to begin with. Not atrocious by any means, but considering the talent behind the camera as well as in front of it, it should have turned out considerably better and more memorable.