The adventures of cowboys, Indians and settlers in the Wild West is a western. A movie to laugh at is a comedy. The combination of these popular genres is an incredible treat for a great evening.
We present you the best westerns of 2000-2020s, among which there are black comedy parodies, ironic stories and unpretentious humorous films from different countries. The wide palette of characters, situations and adventures will allow you to laugh heartily and enjoy a good movie.
Shanghai Noon
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Western
- Production: USA, Hong Kong / 2000
- Budget: $55,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $99,274,467
- Director: Tom Day
- Starring: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill, Roger Yuan, Xander Berkeley, Yu Rongguang, Ya Hee Kui, Eric Chen, Jason Connery.
A unique blend of martial arts film, adventure and comedy in an exciting American-Hong Kong story played by the inimitable couple, Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson.
Jackie is Chinese imperial guard Chong Wang, who has traveled on his own to the Wild West to rescue the kidnapped Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu). His unexpected partner becomes Roy O`Bannon (Wilson), a small-time outlaw with big dreams. Together they travel the world of cowboys and outlaws, testing their mettle in spectacular brawls and dangerous shootouts. Their camaraderie is infused with humor, adding a surprising lightness to this story of the meeting of East and West.
This movie, which features many references to classic westerns, is Tom Day’s directorial debut.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Western, Drama, Comedy, Musical
- Production: USA / 2018
- Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Harry Melling, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, Bill Heck, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Willie Watson
The Coen Brothers’ superb anthology of six short comedy stories set after the Civil War of the 19th century, during the settlement of the Old West.
Buster Scruggs is a singing cowboy, the very embodiment of the spirit of the Wild West. Answering the question “What is man?”, he plays, sings and kills people in packs. Simply because that’s what he is. After this novel, the audience will get to know several more characters in the realities of old America in instructive and extremely funny adventures.
The scripts for all episodes except the fourth ironic tale of karma and the gold digger, based on a Jack London story, are written by the Coens themselves.
Mal día para pescar
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Western
- Production: Uruguay, Spain / 2009
- Director: Alvaro Brechner
- Starring: Gary Picker, Yuko Ahola, Antonella Costa, César Troncoso, Roberto Pankow, Bruno Aldecosea, Alfonso Tort, Christian Casagnol, Jorge Temponi, Henny Goldstein.
A wonderful, atmospheric tragicomedy with a hint of western from Uruguay about a shrewd manager, Orsini, who travels to small-town America with the giant Jacob van Oppen, the heavyweight wrestling champion, and arranges his bouts.
The movie opens with captivating views of a boat drifting against the sunset and an empty dock to the sound of ambulance sirens. There’s a reason no one from the village came to the fishing trip: after the bout, which was opened by a local weirdo with an accordion, one of the fighters had to be rushed to the hospital. But which one?
For director Álvaro Brechner, the film, nominated from Uruguay for an Oscar in 2010, was his debut.
The American Astronaut
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Musical, sci-fi, comedy
- Production: USA / 2001
- US box office receipts: $38,170
- Director: Corey McAbee
- Starring: Corey McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Greg Russell Cook, Annie Golden, James Ranson, Joshua Taylor, Tom Eldridge, Bill Buell, Peter McRobbie, Mark Manley
A funny musical space western created by Corey McAbee, an American musician and director. The events unfold in the future, where mankind settles space, and interplanetary travel has become commonplace.
The space routes are full of trading and mail shuttles, as well as vagrants, bandits and all sorts of rabble, eager to rob or shoot. The plot centers on Samuel Curtis, a trader and smuggler who deals in rare goods.
He delivers a cat to a saloon on the Outer Belt and in return receives a cloning machine that is in the process of creating the rarest creature in the universe, a Real Live Girl, a commodity for which Curtis plans to make big bucks on the mining planet Jupiter, where a guy who has once seen a woman’s breasts is considered almost a deity.
The soundtrack for the movie was written and performed by the band Billy Nayer Show, led by Corey McAbee.
Joheunnom nappeunnom isanghannom
- IMDB Rating – 7.2
- Genre: Western, Comedy, Action, Crime
- Production: Korea South / 2008
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $44,261,209
- Director: Kim Ji-eun
- Starring: Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-ho, Jung Woo-seong, Yoon Jae-moon, Ryu Seung-soo, Song Young-chan, Song Byung-ho, Oh Dal-soo, Lee Cheon-ah, Kim Gwan-il
A hilarious and ironic South Korean comedy, a treasure hunt movie, an expressive road movie where everyone is frantically chasing everyone else, eliciting laughter from the viewer at every turn.
Events unfold in Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s. “Freak” robber Yoon Taegu during a raid on a train steals a mysterious card from a Japanese banker. He is followed by a gang of “bad” Park Changyi, who is convinced that the map contains treasure.
The Korean independence fighters also want to get their hands on the treasure. They hire a “good” lone wolf, Pak Dowon, who also goes in search of Yoon. Soon, Chinese rebels, Japanese troops and Korean do-gooders join this company, and the usual chase turns into mayhem.
The movie has 7 Asian Film Awards nominations and 2 Catalan Film Festival awards.
Yahsi Bati
- IMDB Rating – 7.4
- Genre: Comedy, Western
- Production: Turkey / 2009
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Director: Omer Faruk Sorak
- Starring: Cem Yilmaz, Ozan Güven, Zafer Algöz, Demet Evgar, Ozkan Ugur, Cansu Dere, Binyamin Durgut, Fehmi Gökdeniz, Istar Göksever, Graham Hoadley.
An ironic look at the Wild West from sunny Turkey. In 1881, Sultan Abdulhamid of the Ottoman Empire assigns two secret agents, rugged and trained fighters Aziz and Leme, to deliver a priceless diamond the size of a man’s fist as a gift to Garfield, President of America.
Along the way, they encounter a culture completely unfamiliar to them, are attacked and stripped of all supplies and the gift, and set out to recover the treasure, encountering ideologues, bandits, cowboys, and the stubborn opposition of the main villain, who is both sheriff and pastor. Indians with frankly ottoman faces and manners add a special charm to the comedy.
The star of the movie, famous actor Cem Yılmaz, who played Aziz, said that no one from the crew laughed once during the work, which is hard to believe.
The Lone Ranger
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Western, Adventure, Action, Comedy
- Production: USA / 2013
- Budget: $215,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $260,502,115
- Director: Gore Verbinski
- Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Ruth Wilson, Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham Carter, Bryant Prince, Stephen Root, Leon Rippey
Gore Verbinski’s superhero movie, set to the music of Zimmer and starring Johnny Depp as an eccentric Indian, is more of an adventure drama, and afterward a western and comedy. However, it is one of the best Indian movies of all time, and at the same time a fictionalized story of the origin of the Lone Ranger, a character no less popular in American culture than Superman.
The action takes place in 1869, when a young lawyer John Reed witnesses a violent gang attacking a train carrying their arrested leader Cavendish. Soon John, already as a Texas Ranger and in the company of the escaped from prison Indian Tonto, will have an adventure-filled journey on the trail of Cavendish.
This movie has a complicated fate. It was conceived in 2002, changed 4 companies, the script was rewritten several times, the list of approved actors changed, different directors were appointed, production was suspended, the premiere date was postponed.
Der Schuh des Manitu
- IMDB Rating – 6.7
- Genre: Comedy, Western
- Production: Germany, Spain / 2001
- Budget: DEM 7 000 000
- Worldwide box office: $64,300,000
- Director: Michael Herbig
- Starring: Michael Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Skye Dumont, Marie Baumer, Hilmi Sözer, Rick Cavanian, Tim Wilde, Sigi Terpoorten, Robinson Reichel, Oliver Wnuk
Karl May was a German author of adventure novels, many of which have been adapted, particularly the stories of Winnetou, an Apache chief. This German Wild West movie is a fun parody of movie adaptations of Karl May’s books and classic westerns.
A certain unnamed Ranger saves Chief Abahachi from a collision with a steam train and becomes his blood brother. Soon Abahachi gets into trouble, and only a large sum of money can save him from trouble.
The chief remembers about the treasure hidden on Moccasins Manitou Mountain, and together with Ranger, his twin Winnetouch and his former mistress Ushi, sets out to find the treasure. And on his heels, of course, is a gang eager to take the treasure. Don’t forget your moccasins!
This movie in Germany had record box office receipts and top spot at the box office.
Bandidas
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Western
- Production: France, Mexico, USA / 2006
- Budget: €32,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $18,087,464
- Director: Joaquim Ronning, Espen Sandberg
- Starring: Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Denise Arndt, Audra Blazer, Sam Shepard, Ismael ‘East’ Carlo, Gary Cervantes, Jose Maria Negri
A Franco-American-Mexican female tragicomic western scripted by Luc Besson, the movie starring Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. Cruz plays Maria Alvades, a poor peasant woman. Hayek’s character is Sara Sandoval, the daughter of a wealthy landowner.
Both girls’ families lose their land due to a robbery attack by Tyler Jackson’s gang. Both girls decide to rob the same bank, get acquainted, think about their future, find a sympathetic professional robber Billy, who teaches them his techniques, and together they go to raise the ears of the entire Wild West.
Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek are very longtime friends, and it was hard for them not to laugh during the shoot. By the way, Hayek had to learn horseback riding.
Gunless
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy, Western
- Production: Canada / 2010
- Budget: CA$ 10,000,000
- Director: William Phillips
- Starring: Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory, Dustin Milligan, Tyler Mane, Callum Keith Rennie, Graham Greene, Jay Brazeau, Michael Eklund, Alex Zahara, Jodi Racicot.
This low-budget light-hearted film is filled with cute humor, features likable characters and casually plays off the templates of the classic western.
After many misadventures, the outlaw Kid Montana, wanted for the murder of seven men, finds himself in a tiny Canadian village where almost no one has heard of his adventures and does not know what a 6-shot revolver is.
After a long bickering with a blacksmith-mountaineer, who has shod his horse without permission, the sarcastic Kid sets up a duel with him. But here’s the trouble: the blacksmith doesn’t have a gun! Kid is not accustomed to refuse from his words and decides to get a gun for the stubborn blacksmith, and also he needs to somehow get rid of a lot of thugs hanging on his tail.
Actor Paul Gross, who played Kid, spent hours practicing stunts with a Colt .45 caliber, grew lush hair and studied horseback riding.
Doc West
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Western
- Production: Italy, USA / 2009
- Director: Giulio Baze, Terence Hill.
- Starring: Terence Hill, Claire Carey, Maria P. Petruolo, Alessio Di Clemente, Mika Alberti, Linus Huffman, Gisella Marengo, Mercedes Leggett, Boots Sauferland, Adam Taylor.
Italian comedy spaghetti western set in 19th century New Mexico. Doc West, a former Minnesota doctor and now a professional poker player, sends money by mail from a branch in Santa Fe, which is immediately robbed by robbers.
West pursues the robbers, but loses track of them when he stops to help a boy who has fallen off his horse. It is the boy who helps West retake the target, and he finally arrives in the town of Holisand, where he tries to take his money away in a poker game. And then the wild events begin, uncovering West’s past and escalating to a small local war.
This movie is essentially a re-release of the mini-series of the same name, which was filmed but not released, but packaged later into one feature-length film.
Big Money Rustlas
- IMDB Rating – 3.9
- Genre: Comedy, Western
- Production: USA / 2010
- Budget: :$1 500 000
- Director: Paul Andresen
- Starring: Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Tony 2 Tuff, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Boondocks, Mark Jury, Jason Mewes, Ron Jeremy, Bridget Powers, Jodie Sadler.
French director Paul Andresen’s reckless black-comedy revisionist western is a stand-alone prequel to his own 2000 film, Greedy Deals.
Freelance gunslinger Sugar returns to his Wild West hometown of Mud Bug and learns that the town has been taken over by his longtime adversary Biggie Smalls. This brutal tycoon rules the town through violence and threats, and Sugar’s only defender of justice, Sugar’s father, has been murdered by his thugs. Sugar takes justice into his own hands, systematically shoots down Big Baby’s thugs, and has an affair with the feisty midget Tink.
Joseph Bruce, the famous rapper, once again wrote the script for the movie and reprises his role as Biggie Smalls. There are many cameos of famous musicians in the movie.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
- IMDB Rating – 6.1
- Genre: Comedy, Western
- Production: USA / 2014
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $87,189,756
- Director: Seth MacFarlane
- Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Saifred, Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Hagan, Wes Studi, Matt Clark
A cute and cuddly action western, the movie starring Charlize Theron as the key character, the seductive Anna Barnes.
Albert (Seth MacFarlane) is a timid and good-natured sheep farmer living in a Wild West farming community. He’s cowardly, insecure, resigned to ridicule and upset that his girlfriend has gone to another, more brutal man.
But one day in the town appears captivating Anna, who falls for Albert and inspires him to believe in his own strength. And then her lawful husband, a brutal wanted gangster and murderer Clinch (Liam Neeson) comes to pick her up. But Albert is unwilling to part with his beloved. Not only that, he feels the strength to resist Clinch.
By the way, the idea for the movie came from actor Seth MacFarlane, and it has many references to the classics. For example, in one of the episodes of the film, Albert sees Dr. Brown in the barn repairing a DeLorean.
Fah talai jone
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Action, Melodrama, Comedy, Western
- Production: Thailand / 2000
- US box office receipts: $75,234
- Director: Visith Sasanatieng
- Starring: Chartchai Ngamsan, Suvinit Panyamawat, Stella Malukki, Supakorn Kitsuwon, Arawat Ruangwut, Sombat Methani, Pairoi Yaisingha, Nayana Shewanan, Chamloen Sridang.
A beautiful and tender movie from Thailand, a comedy western, an ommage towards Thai melodramas and action movies of the 60s.
Once upon a time, street boy Dam, nicknamed Black Tiger, saved the daughter of Governor Rumpoy by pulling her out of a lake. Since then, the heiress to power, who has become a beautiful girl, has been in love with her savior, who has grown into a real bandit.
Once again failing to wait for the Lady in the dating gazebo, she succumbs to the advances of a police officer. But the guy doesn’t ignore Rumpy, he just doesn’t have time for gangster squabbles and attempts to sneak away from the police.
This is the first Thai film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival. It premiered at Cannes in 2001 and has since been shown at many such events, winning various awards for direction, costumes, effects and soundtrack.
800 balas
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Western
- Production: Spain / 2002
- Worldwide box office: $1,562,139
- Director: Alex de la Iglesia
- Starring: Sancho Gracia, Angel de Andres Lopez, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela, Luis Castro, Manuel Tagliafe, Enrique Martinez, Luciano Federico, Eduardo Gomez, Terele Pavez.
A bit sad, filled with heartwarming humor, this nostalgic Spanish western tells the story of an elderly man named Julian Torralba, who lives in the town of Almenia in the middle of the Tabernas Desert.
This is where Clint Eastwood’s westerns, whose understudy was Julian, were once filmed. But Hollywood has gone, leaving a sleepy, half-empty town with decaying sets, and now Julian and his friends put on a small Wild West show for the few tourists – that’s how they live.
But one day Torralba’s grandson Carlos, a restless boy whose mother forbids him to see his grandfather, runs away from home and comes here, thrilled to discover that his grandfather is a real cowboy. He infects the aging actor with his enthusiasm, awakening in him a thirst for life.
Director Alex de la Iglesia dreamed of Clint Eastwood playing himself in this movie, but he refused.
Damsel
- IMDB Rating – 5.6
- Genre: Drama, Comedy, Western
- Production: USA / 2018
- Worldwide box office receipts: $323,235
- Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
- Starring: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Joseph Billinger, Morgan Land, Ray Kelleher, David Wingo, Russell Mayle, Gary Brookins
Extremely funny movie with Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska as the main characters, Samuel and Penelope. The action takes place in the Wild West of the late 19th century.
Samuel Alabaster, a wealthy pioneer, goes across the American frontier to find a girl who has fallen into his heart and marry her, despite a letter in which Penelope reports that she has already married for love.
Immersed in sweet dreams of future happiness, Samuel buys a pony as a gift for his bride and takes the ever-drunk Henry, a self-styled priest, with him to perform the marriage without delay. This strange journey ends in a most unexpected way.
The two actors, Pattinson and Wasikowska, were set to star together in another western, the 2016 feminist film Underworld, but they were replaced a couple weeks before filming began.
Lucky Luke
- IMDB Rating – 4.7
- Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Western
- Production: France, Argentina / 2009
- Budget: €27,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $15,919,358
- Director: James Huth
- Starring: Jean Dujardin, Michael Yoon, Sylvie Testu, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy, Melville Poupaud, Jean-François Balmer, Andre Umansky, Gabriel Corrado, Pompeyo Odiver.
Argentina also got involved in westerns, producing an eccentric comedy based on the adventures of Lucky Luke, a character from a 1946 Belgian comic strip.
Once a young Johnny Luke witnesses the murder of his parents by a gang of raiders. The boy was lucky to survive and was raised by Cooper, the mayor of Daisy Town.
Many years later, the president calls Luke to him and entrusts him to curb crime in his hometown. The election is coming up, and Daisy Town is a key point in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. So Luke returns home, meets his former love, and takes down the henchmen of Pat Poker and Billy Zee Key, the two thugs who have taken over the town without mercy.
“The Elusive Luke” is a standalone sequel to another 2004 comedy western, “The Magnificent Four”, starring Til Schweiger. By the way, the character Luke first appeared in Belgian comic books in 1945.
Undead or Alive: A Zombedy
- IMDB Rating – 5.1
- Genre: Horror, Comedy, Western
- Production: USA / 2007
- Director: Glasgow Phillips
- Starring: James Denton, Chris Kattan, Leslie Jordan, Lew Alexander, Todd Anderson, Matt Besser, Chris Coppola, Gino Crognale, Christine Michelle, Chris Nelson.
Two losers, Luke and Elmer, get into trouble in a small town somewhere in the Wild West. The local sheriff puts them behind bars, having previously robbed them. Having conspired, our heroes escape, having already robbed the sheriff. The next day the sheriff hangs the remaining criminal Ben in the cell and sets up a chase for the fugitives.
Ben, however, bites the sheriff before hanging, and before that this creepy type killed his whole family. And it happened because of the Indian Geronimo, who cursed white people, turning some into zombies. So, the chase goes off to spread the zombie virus in the Wild West, and the unkillable Ben, taken off the gallows by kind-hearted townspeople, starts to turn the whole population into zombies.
The movie was shot in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The makeup was created by Gary Jones, and the soundtrack was written by Bulgarian composer Ivan Kutikov.
Seven Boozers
- Genre: Comedy, Western
- Production: Russia, Estonia / 2019
- Worldwide box office: $1,536
- Director: Sergey Kuznetsov
- Starring: Alexei Turanov, Vasily Spiryanin, Vetal Baibakov, Dmitry Rakov, Andrey Fehretdinov, Andrey Vikman, Zina Stanislavchik
An ironic Russian comedy western, a post-apocalyptic movie that slips into the genre of a philosophical parable by the finale. The events develop in the future, where after an unknown catastrophe the Earth has turned into an endless branch of the Wild West: cowboys, saloons, boundless prairies, empty cities and a lot of bandits with cannibals in rags. Only there are no horses – they are extinct, and that’s why all travelers move on bicycles.
The only value in this world is alcohol, which allows you to forget about hardships. A group of friends, including several thugs, a nearly blind old man and a priest, go in search of the legendary Divine Bar, an oasis where the alcohol never runs out.
The director, screenwriter, producer and even the cameraman of the movie was Sergei Kuznetsov.
Casa de mi Padre
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Comedy, Western
- Production: USA, Mexico / 2011
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $8,041,667
- Director: Matt Pidmont
- Starring: Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, Efren Ramirez, Adrian Martinez, Manuel Urrego, Nick Offerman, Jerry Collins.
Drugs, love passions and Will Ferrell in the movie by American writer, screenwriter and director Matt Pidmont.
Raul, Armando’s younger brother, returns to the family ranch with his lovely fiancée Sonia, and promises to quickly solve all the family’s financial problems. But soon bigger troubles begin when Armando falls in love with Sonia, and at the same time Raul’s highly illegal machinations are revealed. And to unfold the final catastrophe on the ranch appear bandits of the largest Mexican drug lord Onza, who declares war on Raul and his family.
Will Ferrell spent over a month hard at work learning Spanish. By the way, fun spoiler: when a butterfly appears in the frame, someone dies in the movie.
The Ridiculous 6
- IMDB Rating – 4.8
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Western
- Production: USA / 2015
- Director: Frank Coraci
- Starring: Adam Sandler, Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, Will Forte, Steve Zahn, Harvey Keitel, Nick Nolte.
We have Sturgess’ brilliant classic “The Magnificent Seven” with its 2016 remake, we have Tarantino’s Wild West dystopia “The Abominable Eight.” Meet another numerical phenomenon in the Western genre, Netflix’s absurdist comedy “Ridiculous Six,” with a great cast and unbridled goofy fun in the plot.
Tommy White Knife is an orphan raised by an Apache tribe. One day, an elderly bandit named Frank shows up at the settlement claiming to be Tommy’s father. He also says that he has saved a lot of money, hid it, and now wants to give it to his son.
But bandits break into the village and kidnap Frank to find out from him where he has buried his treasure. White Knife sets out to find his father, and in his adventures he unexpectedly finds five half-brothers, teams up with them and gets into a series of hilarious adventures.
Despite the scathing criticism, the movie received more views on Netflix than any other before it.
Ned
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
- Production: Australia / 2003
- Director: Abe Forsythe
- Starring: Felix Williamson, Abe Forsythe, Damon Herriman, Nick Flint, Joseph Behr, Jeremy Sims, Caitlin McDougall, Drew Forsythe, Michela Banas, Tim Richards.
Described in 2006 as “the funniest Australian comedy of the last 10 years”, this film mocks the legendary outlaw Ned Kelly and his showbiz-inspired romanticized image as a folk hero. The main action takes place in the town of Glenrowan 1880s, where Ned Kelly and his gang periodically rob the same bank with varying success.
And begins the career of a criminal very ordinary. One day Ned decides he’s had enough of working on his father’s rubber plantation, gets on a pony, tears off and puts a mailbox on his head as a makeshift helmet, and leaves his father’s house.
Arriving in Glenrowan, Ned sees a job ad for a position in Hughes’ gang and, after a successful interview, gets a place. The boy quickly becomes a favorite of the townspeople for his wackiness, and soon, to the dismay of Hughes, he and his associates begin to be called “Kelly’s Gang”.
At the Australian Logie Awards, actor Abe Forsyth, who played Ned, arrived on a Scottish pony. Good thing he didn’t have a mailbox on his head. 🙂
Quick Gun Murugun: Misadventures of an Indian Cowboy
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy, Western
- Production: India / 2009
- Director: Shashanka Ghosh
- Starring: Rajendra Prasad, Nassar, Rambha, Raju Sundaram, Vinay Pathak, Ashwin Mushran, Sandhya Mridul, Ranveer Shori, Kishori Balal.
A funny comedy western from India, created as a parody of serious Indian westerns in which the heroes dance, sing and are overly fond of tearful melodrama.
Murugan is a Tamil cowboy-vegetarian and self-proclaimed hero, who considers it his duty to protect people from villains, though with little understanding of the classification of the latter. The embodiment of universal evil Murugan considers the owner of the restaurant Reddy, who dreams of creating the perfect national pancakes with (oh, horror!) meat filling. And our hero is also torn in a love triangle, unable to make a choice between two lovers.
The superhero Murugun (Quick Gun Murugun) was invented in 1994 for the Indian pay-TV network Channel V.
