Session: Spaghetti (with Different Sauces) Westerns, Week 3
Movie: D'Wild Wild Weng (1982)
Directed by Eddie Nicart
As always, there may be spoilers here. And the trailer may be NSFW and/or NSFL.
Plot:
A diminutive hero and his sidekick team up with a mute, a gang of ninjas and a tribe of Amerindian midgets to defeat a town bully. Hilarity ensues.
Reaction:
After seeing For Y'ur Height Only last summer, I was kind of expecting this to be similarly small in scope -- keeping in mind that this would be a western (as opposed to Height, which was based on the James Bond-type spy movies). I was very wrong.
D'WWW is very ambitious in its scope, leading me to believe that the producers were trying to make some sort of epic. There's an unexpected hugeness of scope here, and the final product does show a wide array of influences. A lot of the outdoors looks like the set of 1966's Django, and the climactic scene reminded me of Mad Max. And in one scene we're treated to Weng Weng jumping from a cliff, complete with the iconic Six Million Dollar Man sound effects. Along with the disparate influences, the producers seemed to throw everything they could in there -- ninjas, a samurai, a tribe of Amerindian midgets. And we mustn't forget Lupo. Lupo is a mute -- his tongue had been cut out. And he spends most of his time onscreen gesticulating wildly while vocalizing wordless shrieks and squeals.
And the resulting product is really an unfathomable mess. There's really no effort to be coherent. The characters seemed to be costumed in whatever street clothes they showed up in. You have a Civil War-era gatling gun mounted to a dune buggy, and an odd feeling that no one know what the fuck is going on, or when this thing is supposed to take place.
Still, it was good for a few laughs.
Ratings:
Me: 5
Christina: 7.6
Ethan: 3
Sean: 4 out of 4
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