AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

pablosemanas As others have said, this movie is a gentle, loving, homage/send-up of early Westerns. The basic premise is what would happen if a '40s B Western were updated to modern realism. The results are very funny. "Rex O'Herlihan, The Singin' Cowboy", played terrifically by Tom Berringer, pulls a traveling armoire (you gotta get those outfits from somewhere) stacked with white hats, terrific outfits and guitars. He spends time washing and ironing (someone's gotta do it) and is through-and-through a "good guy". There are so many scenes and lines that we love:Spoilers may follow:It's the old theme of Sheep Herders vs Cattle Ranchers. Andy Griffith is terrific as the power-mad cattle baron "Colonel Ticonderoga". You hear lots of cows, but you never see one. Blackie is one of his men, in town to give the sheep herders a bad time.Blackie (black hat) in the saloon: "I smell sheep!" Sheep herders son, standing up and opening his jacket to demonstrate: I'm-a not wearin' a gun, and I'm not going to do ANYTHING that in ANY way ..." "Blam blam blam" Blackie shoots him. Real Estate Guy: "You can kill me too, Blackie, but it's just this kind of violence that drives down property values here in Oakwood Estates" "Blam!" Property values! ha ha haBlackie to Rex: "You look like one of those fellers who's attracted to other men" Rex: "How a person dresses is nobody's business but his or her own" Politically correct Rex.I guess you have to see it to appreciate it. Along with the general send-up of early westerns, I see a sub-text of the difficulty men have in being "good" while navigating this difficult world. That may be a stretch, but I see it. Great movie!!!

Bjorn (ODDBear) Maybe you have to be very familiar with old B-movie American westerns to fully enjoy Rustler's Rhapsody and since I'm not all that familiar with the genre I don't think too highly of this film.That's not to say it's unfunny, it truly has it's moments but they're not very many and a bit far between. Tom Berenger does well as The Singing Cowboy who rides alone and squares matters in every town. The main spoof here is that every western followed the same formula and so Berenger can predict what's gonna happen each time.The cast is earnest. G.W. Baily is sporadically funny as the town drunk who becomes Berenger's sidekick, Fernando Rey is very good as the embodiment of a Spaghetti Western villain (one of the film's more funnier scenes is the spoof on their wardrobe and better background music) and the rest (Andy Griffith, Marilu Henner and Sela Ward) fare well enough. I just wished they could have used Jim Carter more (Déja Vu from Top Secret). His confrontation with Berenger in the beginning is a riot.The problem is mainly that it's paper thin premise doesn't go many places. Berenger's ability to predict what's gonna happen takes up most of the film's jokes. As said I'm not all that familiar with the genre apart from a few movies so I could well enough have missed some jokes.Rustler's Rhapsody is thus an O.K. way to spend an hour and a half but I didn't laugh out loud that often.

canuckteach This 1985 film became a family favorite as soon as we taped it from a TV broadcast 20 years ago - it ran as part of an interesting Western double-header on City-TV (R. Rhapsody, followed by Silverado, another sort of tribute western, albeit with more serious themes). In time, we acquired both on VHS, replacing our creaky, worn-out tape.I didn't realize how funny Andy Griffith was till I saw him in this flick. Sela Ward sparkles, and looks like a teenager, but she was actually born in 1956. She recently performed in "House, M.D", still looking 10-15 years younger than her age.Some of the funniest lines remain in our family vernacular: "See somebody about yer hearing"; "She's probably out riding Wildfire"; "That leg will have to come off for sure"; "Who-oo iiiiis it?".There are 2 brilliant scenes with Berenger and Patrick Wayne - 1 turns more sinister, just briefly.. listen for the 'Psycho' background music.Hollywood's not making Westerns any more - but we could argue that they're not really making comedies either. Why? the art of 'wit' or 'satire' has sadly been lost. *sigh* You can see both here.

oxyent This movie got by me somehow when it was released in 1985. I don't even remember any advertising for it. So I didn't discover it until 1990 or 1991. It has become one of my all time favorite spoofs and I think it's even funnier than "Blazing Saddles'.The first campfire scene when Rex introduces the running "root" gag had me in total stitches. I have turned on many many friend to this show over the past 15 years. The only other comedy sleeper as funny as this one is "The Cheap Detective". I've watched "Rhapsody" at least six times and it still cracks me up. One of GW Bailey's all time funniest characters, too. I highly recommend this movie!