City Slickers [VHS]

City Slickers [VHS]
by Ron Underwood

City Slickers [VHS]
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Actor: Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig
Director: Ron Underwood
Producer: Billy Crystal
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
Editor: O. Nicholas Brown
Writer: Lowell Ganz
Writer: Babaloo Mandel
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 114 minutes
Release Date: 1992-12-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Studio: Columbia Pictures

VHS Movie Reviews of City Slickers [VHS]

Movie Review: Move 'em in, Move 'em out. . .
Summary: 5 Stars

Remember Rawhide? Ever think you'd like to be a cowboy? Watch what happens as three city slickers take on ranching. City Slickers will find this movie hilarious, but ranchers know that once you try it, it gets in your blood and that's exactly what happens to these three guys as they are left to drive a herd of cattle to its destination.

Movie Review: Charming
Summary: 4 Stars

Nothing like two weeks herding cattle on a dude ranch in New Mexico and Colorado to clear up a pesky case of middle age angst. Actually I wouldn't know, but watching the timeless comedy CITY SLICKERS gives me a pretty good idea. When three New Yorker buds (Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, and Bruno Kirby), all with midlife crises of their own (although Crystal's seems forced and contrived), venture west to do something they know nothing about (ranching), the fun truly begins. From learning to ride horses, to birthing calves (and that scene is quite the eye-opener), to being intimidated by a crusty, cantankerous old ranch hand (Jack Palance is a treasure), this comedy will charm the buttons off of you.

The dialogue is seamless and funny, and often heartwarming, while Stern by far gets the best line, as he confronts his soon-to-be ex-wife: "If hate were people, I'd be China!" Palance steals every scene he's in, I'm at a total loss why Helen Slater is in the cast (she adds nothing), and Crystal's burned-out-radio-adman shtick comes across as whiny and petulant. (Yet here's a film that has him manning up admirably.) CITY SLICKERS is a warm, rousing comedy that still feels good. And that, pardner, is pretty durn charming.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

Movie Review: Very funny
Summary: 4 Stars

A humorous story about married guys going to a dude ranch to help them get a tilt on their lives. A great movie to buy for the entertainment value dollar. Another great addition to have in your DVD library.

Movie Review: Still funny, even for today's teens!
Summary: 5 Stars

Watched "City Slickers" with my two children: 17-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son. Wasn't sure it would be as funny as I remembered when I saw it when it was released originally. I asked them to watch it for 30 minutes and we could turn it off if they weren't enjoying it. Well, we watched the whole thing and it was as great, if not better, as I remember. My children loved it! My daughter fell in love with Norman, and my son wants to go on a cattle drive.

As we watched the movie, I kept saying to my kids that the actor playing Billy Crystal's son looked like a young Jake Gyllenhaal. Imagine my surprise to see in the credits that it was, indeed, a very young Jake. (Yee hah!! I love being right in front of my kids once in a while.)

This film is probably not appropriate for young children as there is crude sexual language, some swear words, and the birth of a calf grossed my kids out. I'm not sure if it was real or not but you see it all.

Movie Review: The Greatest "Guy" Movie Ever (Yet, With Feeling)
Summary: 5 Stars

As old as the "Men are from Mars, Women are from Jupiter" ponderings is the difference between "guy" films and "chick flicks". Though not trying to stereotype the genders too much here, the camp of movie-goers that will watch "The Notebook" or "A Walk To Remember" have different hormones flowing through them as those that go to "Terminator Salvation" or "Rambo IV". There's just a fundamental difference that often cannot be overcome by either gender.

"City Slickers", however, is the rare film that, while being a complete "guy" film, also proves to be as introspective as any emotional drama. Basically, "Slickers" tells the story of a middle-aged man named Mitch (played superbly by Billy Crystal) who undergoes a mid-life crisis. He works a dead-end job, has kids that think he is an "old fart", can't keep up on his best friend's big adventures (the film opens with the trio of buds running from the bulls in Spain), and is on the verge of complete depression. However, an opportunity (two weeks herding cattle at a Dude Ranch) presents itself for Mitch to be able to re-capture his youth, and he reluctantly takes it. Over the course of the trip, Mitch (and his pals, by extension) slowly but surely (and with often hilarious results!) begins to recapture the excitement that seemed to have been missing from his life.

Besides the inspiring storyline that rivals any feel-good film, "Slickers" vaults itself into the stratosphere with the quality of both its humor and acting. The jokes in this film, while not the physical comedy of, say, Jim Carrey, are still hilarious, and mirror the changes that each friend is going through. Speaking of those friends, Phil and Ed (played by Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby, respectively), they each in turn provide the perfect compliment to Mitch's old-age crisis...Ed is the go-getter who never seems to slow down, while Phil is stuck in a heartless marriage and wishes he could just start over. The camraderie, struggles, and real-life discussions between those three guys provides the emotional backbone of the film. Plus, the auxiliary characters (including Jack Palance as the trail-hardened cowherd Curly) each add their own take on life into the picture.

Towards the end of the film, Mitch proclaims that he has finally found his "one thing" in life. Though that "one thing" is never revealed, that is actually the point...everyone must go out and find it for him/her self (much like the viewer may begin to contemplate while watching). So guys, the next time your significant other wants to watch another two Kleenex-box romance, suggest this film as a change of pace (but make sure she watches the whole thing...as the meat of the message is saved for the finale). She may not laugh at all the same things you do (which will be pretty much everything!), but she may also come away with a bit better of a perspective on what it's like to be a guy.
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Summary of City Slickers [VHS]

Three middle-age buddies (Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby) facing personal crises decide to sign up for a two-week cattle run for a change of pace. The trail proves a tougher place than anyone thought, and the boss (Jack Palance) is a grizzled taskmaster who doesn't cotton to tenderfoot urbanites. Popular in theaters, the film is both funny and moving, with Crystal giving one of his most complete performances and Palance (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) a lot of colorful fun. Director Ron Underwood (Heart and Souls) subtly shifts the tone of the film from broad comedy to poignancy over its running time, and he makes the story's end a bittersweet victory that feels like life as most people know it. --Tom Keogh

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