ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

DocShaggles Helge Schneider as Doc Snyder is an accomplished villain who tyrannizes Texas in a funny way. He frees his brother from jail or tries to get back his laundry bag. Always well dressed and hilarious Schneider creates a brilliant Wild West Movie. A special varying note is giving the movie by guest-appearances from Ludger Pistor, Charlie Weiss and Gerd Lohmeyer. The secret hero of Texas for me is Helmut Körschgen performing as Lt. Körschgen. He introduces 00 Schneider, Schneiders main character of the following movie. "Texas,Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem" Comedy as its best. Doc Shaggles

swisswuff This is German satire at it's best and most direct. This movie addresses some self-inflicted stereotypes people put upon themselves, be it as German lower class to middle class, be it as Post WW II Germany with lots of hints to particular stereotypes, or be it as the Germany that idolizes America and the Wild Wild West. Of course, Karl May has done his part to further the cause of Helge Schneider here. Helge addresses these stereotypes, and he does it without mercy.The mayor with the suit and the T-shirt is a classic, and if you never knew people "like that", you will not be able to understand or relate. The scene, where "how to really eat cake" is addressed, was re-"played" thousands of times around afternoon-tea-tables around Germany anytime between 1930 and the present time - mostly in a dead serious manner. Still, if you remember sitting in a bus in a rural area in Germany around 1975, you will remember some of the people being shown, such as Doc Snyder's mother. The detective 00 Schneider is a classic as well, addressing personal dressing up and identification with a job more than a particular "plot". It would be strange if this movie made sense to anyone not knowing the time between 1950 and 1980 - which is the time that obviously formed Helge Schneider in a way that he had to make that movie. It's a pay back, and a very good one. This is surely the Monty Python of Germany. However, Monty Python gave up some of it's local bite for a wider audience, and Helge Schneider obviously did not work towards such a commitment. This makes his movies much more "right on", and much less viewable to anyone without relation to the cultural time addressed in his movie. I once attended a Gerhard Polt show where he talked about "Bad Hausen". Beforehand, I thought, let me better dress up properly, so I showed up in my gray woolen vest, and my blue-and-white checkerboard shirt. Turns out that a lot of exile-Bavarians like me did the same thing. So there we were, all trying to figure out his satire, dressed up in folksy uniforms. During the show, I noticed that sometimes, Polt said something that I found extremely funny, but while I was laughing about what he'd come up with, the guy next to me would just nod as if Polt said something he'd full heartedly agree with. At that moment, I realized that Polt made fun of people like that guy next to me, but that guy maybe did not realise that that's what had happened. As the show went on, I caught myself nodding at some of his lines myself, while I could not help noticing that people like the guy next to me would laugh their belly off. That is when I figured out that Polt made fun of me, too. This insight pertains to Helge Schneider's "Doc Snyder" to the highest degree.

prohibited-name-1418 either you hate or you love helge schneider. for those who like his humour, this movie is his best in my opinion. one strange gag(?) after another. what can i write about this movie? maybe that you don´t have to have a clear story, good actors or good cinematography to make people laugh!

ralphwiggum This is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen. Helge Schneider is surely the funniest German alive, and beside that a very talented jazz musician. But many people - as you can see in some of the other comments - do not share this opinion, because they feel that Texas is a complete mess, weird, ridicilous, silly and because they had no idea when to laugh and why. And they are completely right. This makes Monty Pythons Holy Grail look like a densely plotted, conventionel costume drama. Amazingly, Helge went on to direct and star during the following years in several much more wild, more dadaesque, yes more schneideresque movies than Texas, which was his biggest hit in Germany so far. You can enjoy all his work if you - don't try to analyze, don't search for a deeper meaning -if you love the absurd - and only if you are a native german speaker, i am sorry. Helge's art uses new words, misplaced words and sentences, new combinations of words, old words with new meanings etc., laconic slapstick and a downright funny appearance. So i am kind of a fan. And don't trust any comment that starts with:"Fans love it, anyone with brains hate it..."