Cert 15
116 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong language, sex references, comic violence
It seems so long since I watched a main stream movie but here I was, taking time out from the World Cup, to snaffle up a bit of Seth MacFarlane.
I have never got into Family Guy but, having laughed out loud eight times during Ted, I thought this would have every chance of being a good giggle.
And so it proved. Gags are fired at the rate of a Gatling gun and while not all of them hit the target, enough do to make the audience go home happy.
MacFarlane directed, wrote and starred in A Million Ways To Die In The West and managed to attract some big names to join the party.
Liam Neeson plays the fastest and most vicious gunslinger in the West while the role of his beautiful but resentful wife is taken by Charlize Theron.
While Neeson's character is in hiding, Theron's takes up with our hero (MacFarlane), a local yellow-livered sheep farmer.
Meanwhile, he is trying to lure back his ex-girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried) who has run off with the owner of the local moustachery (Neil Patrick Harris).
And then there is the farmer's naive best friend (Giovanni Ribisi) whose girlfriend is a 10-times-a-night hooker (Sarah Silverman).
Anyway, this being a MacFarlane film, there is a maelstrom of debauchery, drugs and drink and some neat crossover references from the 19th century Wild West to the present day.
MacFarlane has most of the gags but Theron and Ribisi are also in good form.
On the whole, it was what I wanted from the cinema last Sunday afternoon - rollocking good fun without the need of much brain power.
Laughs: Five out loud and chuckles
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: explicitly naked sheep!