Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

SmileysWorld Her father is gunned down by a hired killer because he refused to be forced off of his own land by dirty high officials.Mild mannered Catherine (Cat) Ballou seeks revenge with her only help being her dad's Indian farmhand,two bungling outlaws that have never shot anyone,and a drunken has been gunslinger.The odds against her are definitely stacked,which forces her to toughen up to help things go more smoothly.The events along the way are very entertaining as we see a much different Cat Ballou at the end than we did at the start.I especially enjoyed the musical aspect with the shouters played by Stubby Kaye and the late great Nat King Cole,who sadly,was ill during production and died several months before the film's release.His part in the film made it all the more enjoyable.Fun ride!

dallasryan I get that the movie is a spoof on westerns, but it's just not funny. Not sure why the screenplay got nominated for an academy award, the writing is pretty bad and off in this movie. Every punchline pretty much doesn't work to the effect it should. I give this movie a 5 rating and I'll break it down why.2 Stars for Lee Marvins performance. Everyone else is pretty much off in their performance and that's due also to bad pacing, directing and a poor script. But Marvin saves the movie in some sense. Lee Marvin has one of the best scenes in the movie where he goes to confront his brother, but the scene is so out of context, it belongs in a completely different movie. I think Marvin should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor and maybe won in that category, but winning for Best Actor? He's not the lead by far in this movie.I give 3 stars for just looking at Jane Fonda. Her legs and buttocks are to die for, she was always a workout fiend on her legs and it shows in this movie. They talk about how J-Lo started the big booty craze, but really Jane Fonda did in some way, she has a huge booty for a white woman, one with muscle and definition too. So I give 3 stars just for drooling over her body in this one. And she's always nice to look at in the face too.Other than that, this one isn't worth much of a look.

flackjacket One of the reasons I gave this a 1 is because zero isn't an option. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Lee Marvin and Nat King Cole, but this was clearly the lowest point in their careers. The opening song pretty much warns you that what you're about to witness is going to be total cheese. Along with the total disbelief that's actually Nat King Cole singing it as a duet with some unknown ugly fat guy.But it gets worse. The first step down is during the opening credits, when you see somebody actually thought it would be a good idea to cast Jane Fonda in a Western, even worse, a Western "Comedy" (and I use that term loosely in this case). Seriously, Jane Fonda in a Western Comedy???After a few minutes of poor acting, unbelievably bad dialog, out of no where, Nat and the unknown ugly fat guy suddenly appear and lay the same painfully long opening theme song on you again. Why? Maybe in case some people were out getting popcorn during the first time they played it?I guess the best way to describe this "comedy" is that it seems like it was written and directed by the same people that plagued the earth with the Monkees TV show back in the 60's. Same poor script, cheesy acting, lame sight gags, sound effects and twangy background music... that apparently is supposed to make the "funny" antics and double-takes seem funnier. But it greatly fails.Finally, if you loved the Monkees, found that style of "comedy" enjoyable, can suspend disbelief long enough to actually buy Jane Fonda as a comedian in a Western, you'll love this film. Otherwise I advise having a barf bag available.

billk51 I'm surprised that this film didn't receive a higher rating. It was one of the ten most popular films of 1965. It is a funny and witty western satire featuring a young and adorable Jane Fonda and a hilarious Lee Marvin as a one time legendary gun fighter who is now a filthy drunk who can't hit the proverbial broad side of a barn. The evil businessmen want the water rights under Fonda's father's ranch and they will stop at nothing to get them. Fonda hires Marvin to face off with the gunslinger hired by the villains and at first it does not go well.A really nice touch is the addition of Nat King Cole and Stubby Kay as the "Greek chorus" who sing directly to the audience at intervals to comment on the story. (Think of the singers who open and close "There's Something About Mary.") Unfortunately Nat Cole was already fighting lung cancer while the film was being made and he died before it opened.Leaves you wondering why Hollywood just doesn't make films like this anymore. No special effects, no obscenity and no gratuitous sex. Humor arises from the characters and from the screenplay.