Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Twilightfa
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
bkoganbing
It seems perfectly obvious that any number of folks who took Horace Greeley's
advice about going west had second thoughts. A lot just weren't cut out for
the frontier and I don't doubt many returned east.It is to those wise souls who knew when to quit that Wagons East is dedicated to.
In one of our small western bergs a group makes a collective decision to form a
Wagon Train and they hire the inebriated John Candy as their wagonmaster to
travel east. Candy himself at first can't quite acclimate to this new thinking but eventually does.But the notion of heading back east violates the thinking of the establishment
and those making a living on the pioneer spirit. At the same time the Indians
see this as a good thing. Makes for some strange alliances.This was John Candy's last film and lucky we got it completed as he died during the making. I'm sure he had hopes of this turning into another Blazing
Saddles. That would have taken Mel Brooks's zaniness.My favorite in the film is the gay bookseller John C. McGinley who went west
for the men, but found them a bit rough for his taste. His scene with the naive
and hunky Lochlyn Munro is priceless.Not a comedy masterpiece, Wagons East is still good fun and viewing.
Wuchak
RELEASED IN 1994 and directed by Peter Markle, "Wagons East" details events when a dozen settlers in the remote Southwest town of Prosperity give up on the West and hire a drunken wagon master (John Candy) to lead them back East. Later, some Sioux tribespeople decide to assist them, hoping it will become a trend. Meanwhile, a dastardly villain (Edward Matthew Lauter) is hired by a railroad mogul to stop the small wagon train à la Wile E. Coyote in The Road Runner.If you like comedy Westerns like "Texas Across the River" (1966) and "The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox" (1976), you should like this one as well. It mixes laugh-out-loud scenes with quietly amusing ones. I think it's superior to the overrated "Cat Ballou" (1965) and even better than the heralded "Blazing Saddles" (1974). It's not intentionally offensive like the latter, although there's a little black humor. In some ways it's kinda cute and heartwarming (e.g. the relationship between the big guy and the former prostitute). The locations are spectacular. There are several familiar faces in the cast who were popular around that time, e.g. Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Robert Picardo, Ellen Greene, Melinda Culea, William Sanderson, Rodney A. Grant and Russell Means. THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour & 47 minutes and was shot in Condado De Chavez & Sierra de Organos, Mexico. WRITERS: Matthew Carlson (screenplay) & Jerry Abrahamson (story). GRADE: B
gleetroy
My favorite comedian John Candy went out of life on a terrible note. This film did nothing but MAR his brilliant career with a stinker at the end. He died while filming this pathetic Western spoof that is not funny nor is it a taste of any West that ever existed.I still feel sad when I see him on TV and realize that there will be no more of that Candy warmth and Candy brilliance in this world. I just saw "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" tonight. This is a great film. Watch the way he interacts with Steve Martin. Touching and sidesplitingly funny at the same time. I can not think of one funny bit from Wagons East. He looked bloated on this picture and was ill-suited on a horse. Go, Candy go! But please don't ask anyone to remember you from this film.
sixstringscouser
It's really a great shame that someone as likeable and genuinely adorable as John Candy adhered to take a part in this trash! I really couldn't see any point in the storyline and the direction in this movie was very poor. The whole movie is like a big comic rip off! Sadly, John Candy died of a heart attack while in the middle of this movie that adds to the tradgedy of the whole thing. I couldn't see this movie from beginning to end. Shame, 2/10
