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Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland

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Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)

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Reviews Counted:80

Fresh:47

Rotten:33

Average Rating:6/10

Consensus: Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show has some entertaining moments, but is a mostly hit-and-miss documentary.

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland chronicles the journey of Vince Vaughn, star of the hit films Fred Claus, The Break Up, Wedding Crashers,... Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland chronicles the journey of Vince Vaughn, star of the hit films Fred Claus, The Break Up, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Old School, and Swingers, and four stand-up comedians as they traverse the country performing in a live variety show. In the spirit of the old west variety shows, Vaughn plays host to the ensemble of comedians and performs improvisational sketches with surprise celebrity and musical guests. Hand picked by Vaughn to perform on the tour, from the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, are national comedians Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco. The film provides audiences a rare opportunity to experience Vaughn and his team as they travel over 6,000 miles across the heartland of America and perform 30 shows in 30 days. Traveling to cities that don't ordinarily attract this type of entertainment, Vaughn and his team bring their unique styles and perspectives to regional audiences throughout Western, Southern and Midwestern states. Through rousing onstage performances and behind-the-scenes interviews, the engaging film breaks down the true essence of each comedian's life altering experiences and the personal and professional challenges that will unite four comics, one movie star and legions of fans from Hollywood to the Heartland. --© Picturehouse [More]

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Sebastian Maniscalco, Peter Billingsley, Dwight Yoakam, Justin Long, Buck Owens, Jon Favreau

Director: Ari Sandel

Director: Ari Sandel
Producer: Vince Vaughn
Composer: John O'Brien
Studio: Picturehouse

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Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
02/27/09
Chris Bumbray
Chris Bumbray
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

If you were expecting an actual comedy concert film, however, you’ve got another thing coming.

Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
02/05/08
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

After a while the movie's inside chumminess and the overgrown-boy schtick start to wear thin, making me wonder whether Sarah Silverman or Margaret Cho might consider filming a sequel with a busload of neurotic girlfriends.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
02/08/08
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

Even if you're a Vaughn fan, you'll have more fun watching him promote Wild West on talk shows than watching the film itself.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
02/08/08
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Only sporadically wild, but it does indeed go through some Western states. It also ends up feeling about as long and draggy as the title itself.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
02/07/08
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press

Is it Wild? Pretty mild, actually.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
02/08/08
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

About 30 comedy shows and could have been interesting for maybe 30 minutes. But it goes beyond that, until the actor and his far less charismatic buddies get on your 30th nerve.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
02/08/08
Darel Jevens
Darel Jevens
Chicago Sun-Times
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Yee-haw, I love a good Wild West variety show! Disappointment sets in when it’s clear that there will be little in the way of variety.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
02/04/08
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine

More than a vanity project for the currently hot actor but less than gripping cinema, either as a performance film or as a life-on-the-road tell-all.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/12/06
Eddie Cockrell
Eddie Cockrell
Variety
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It's all easy to take, in a cable-TV sort of way, but neither outrageously funny nor especially revealing.

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02/07/08
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

The tour stops may have been successful, as Vaughn claims, but the documentary of it comes off more as a well-intentioned vanity production than the career launching pad he envisioned.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
02/08/08
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

There's a reason this lackluster documentary...has languished on the shelf since its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2006...

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
02/17/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Vaughn seems to believe that bringing hundreds of F-bombs per night and such guest stars as 'the gay guy from "Wedding Crashers"' to the benighted masses that live between New York and Los Angeles is the domestic equivalent of a USO show.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
02/08/08
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Stand-up tour doc offers laughs and amusing surprises, but doesn't justify a runtime as long as its title.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/13/06
John DeFore
John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
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A good concert film might have been culled from Vaughn's 30-date LA-to-Chicago tour... But this is more like a DVD extra for that film

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
02/07/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

The performance footage is less engaging than your average standup act on Comedy Central, while the backstage interviews about the comedic craft are pointless.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
02/07/08
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

You get four decent comics plucked from obscurity and given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play big venues packed with eager fans who would probably have roared at a 20-minute set by Alan Greenspan if Vaughn had deigned to give him his blessing.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
02/08/08
Josh Rosenblatt
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle

Comedy hits the road, but the jokes fall flat.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
02/07/08
Karen Heller
Karen Heller
Philadelphia Inquirer
 
 
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