2 reviews
This is one of the nicest movies where the genius of Finnish comedy, Spede Pasanen, appears.
The movie is very atypical for a Spede movie, because of the fact that it's a very quiet movie - much less speech than usual, more room for guns, explosions, fists and beat of hoofs. On the other hand, it's a very atypical Finnish movie, because a cold and dark country like this is not a very probable location for shooting a Western! Nevertheless, many Spede fans think Speedy Gonzales and Hirttämättömät are both movies that were, as though of afterwards, good ideas.
As a Western parody, it's a pretty funny one and even funnier than some "less serious" Westerns produced at our time and age. The movie pokes fun at many of the cliches of "Spaghetti Westerns". Yet, it's not the funniest of the Spede movies, but it still works wonderfully because the plot is more finished than in some of the earlier works - it might even be good enough for a *real* Western!
Overall, not a bad movie at all, well worth watching even today, and the jokes don't get old even after many watchings.
Now, if only they'd release it on DVD...
The movie is very atypical for a Spede movie, because of the fact that it's a very quiet movie - much less speech than usual, more room for guns, explosions, fists and beat of hoofs. On the other hand, it's a very atypical Finnish movie, because a cold and dark country like this is not a very probable location for shooting a Western! Nevertheless, many Spede fans think Speedy Gonzales and Hirttämättömät are both movies that were, as though of afterwards, good ideas.
As a Western parody, it's a pretty funny one and even funnier than some "less serious" Westerns produced at our time and age. The movie pokes fun at many of the cliches of "Spaghetti Westerns". Yet, it's not the funniest of the Spede movies, but it still works wonderfully because the plot is more finished than in some of the earlier works - it might even be good enough for a *real* Western!
Overall, not a bad movie at all, well worth watching even today, and the jokes don't get old even after many watchings.
Now, if only they'd release it on DVD...
- YeOldeUselessoFilmoBuffo
- Feb 10, 2002
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Spede Pasanen plays Speedy Gonzales, the fastest drawer of the west in this 1970 movie.Speedy Gonzales-noin 7 veljeksen poika is a good western comedy from Ere Kokkonen.It has all the elements also an American western would have.It's a really funny idea that slowest drawer scene. The cast does an excellent job.Spede is great as a quiet man of the west.There are also good people such as Simo Salminen, Jukka Virtanen, Pertti Melasniemi, Olavi Ahonen, Esko Salminen, Tarja Markus, Leo Jokela, Leo Lastumäki and Juhani Kumpulainen.A beloved actor Ville-Veikko Salminen plays Bat Masterson in the movie.He sadly died to a lung cancer this week.He had a great and a long career in movies and he's greatly missed by the Finnish movie audience. This movie is a movie that has lots of great stuff.It also has a great song called Haaskalinnut.There are many reasons for you to watch the movie.So watch it!