So I just rewatched this, for the first time in probably decades I believe. Glad I did. Still holds up as a great not-quite-comedic late spaghetti with one of the greatest title themes.
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Apart from the Leones and some of the Corbuccis this is probably the spaghetti western I rewatch most. Yes, it still hold up, in fact I like it ever better today then I did when I saw it for the first time, in the early 1970s. I also think - unlike some others - that it’s superior to the sequel (even if this sequel isn’t bad either).
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This was the first SW I ever watched. I watched it on VHS when I was a little kid in the 90s. I did not understand why it was called spaghetti, I thought it had something to do with the comedy in the movie, many years later I realised it was because it was an Italian movie.
It will always have a special place in my heart, and I will rewatch it again when the Retro Gold63 steelbook arrives.
In Italy only the diehard spaghetti westerns are called ‘spaghetti’, the comedy westerns like the Trinities are called ‘fagioli’ (beans). Watch the opening scene and you know why 
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My opinion, too. The first part has the funniest moments without being slapstick. Sure , there are some funny brawls, but some good created and timed jokes too.
I think the sequel is the more funny one, with plenty of great running gags. Clucher had a talent for comedy, all his Spencer/Hill films are the best by far. Only the one by Colizzi comes close, and My Name Is Nobody of course (if viewed as a comedy).
Both Trinities are of course pretty entertaining. The second one has the better running gags, true, but the first one has the better story. The second one is more a collection of vignettes, it concentrates more on the jokes, and many of them are funny, but when you watch the movie for the third of fourth time (I’ve watched both movies at least three or four times) you start noticing that they don’t work so well anymore. I like My Name is Nobody a lot, but I never thought it was very funny. In fact there are several slapstick scenes in it that don’t work at all, at least for me. But there so many great moments that you can watch the movie again and again. I actually grew on me. When I first saw it in cinema I wasn’t too fond of it, today it’s one of my favorite spaghettis.
Out of their comedies I think the best one is Watch Out We’re Mad directed by Marcello Fondato who is otherwise unknown to me.
Yeah, that one is ok, but imo no match for any of the Cluchers.
For me they still do.