Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Bezenby Bud Spencer teams up with a kid in this rather charming, but cheap, Italian comedy Western. Jack Palance provides back up as a cigar chomping, riled brother of a chick Spencer slept with, hoping to marry Spencer off and then kill him (to save face). They all end up in a town run by Sheriff/Judge/Reverend Francisco Rabal, who wants the property that the kid's inherited. But why? That's up to Spencer and the kid to find out, but needless to say the kid's sitting on a fortune. This mostly harmless western has Spencer as the reluctant hero, protecting a kid he doesn't want to protect and getting into many punch ups. Palance turns up periodically to save Spencer (he wants to kill him himself) and for some reason he's got an accent that turns from Southern to Mexican for no reason whatsoever. Everything's played pretty light (no one gets killed, save for the kid's uncle who has a heart attack). As with all Italian comedies, the laughs are played very broad (verging on slapstick), and there's unintentional and intentional laughs. There's also a touching moment when the kid starts showing Spencer a bit of affection and you can see Spencer's torn between his duties in looking after the kid and his own need to get out of town. The film also benefits from having one of the least annoying kids in Italian cinema (If you've seen House by the Cemetery or Sweet House of Horrors, you'll know that's no understatement).The abrupt ending seems to endorse wife-beating, however, so I'm not sure what that was about! Did give me a laugh, though…The print I viewed was awful - drained of colour, pan and scanned, with a weird echo for the first 30 minutes.

Chris Haskell While not exactly the same plot as True Grit, it is definitely in the same vein, but this time with slapstick humor interjected throughout. Bud Spencer chops his opponents into submission and Jack Palance goes from goon to goof as the story unfolds. This has all the parts of a Spaghetti Western: Decent theme song, genre character actors, settings, etc. but winds up a few feet wide of the mark. The humor is decent, especially some of the interactions with Coburn and the boy, and it is an entertaining movie, but I never really warmed up to the gentle giant Coburn (Bud Spencer) and believed his connection with the kid. And I feel like I just have to at least mention the awkward spousal abuse ending ... I guess it was just being historically accurate? Anyways, there are better Western All'Italiana.Rating: 18/40

classicsoncall Prior reviewers in this forum have been a bit more generous than I'm prepared to be. This was my first Bud Spencer film, and I found it to be adequate at best. If not for the sneering presence of Jack Palance there might not have been enough to hold my interest.Spencer's character is Hiram Coburn, who's gimmick with the eyeglasses portends someone about to get hurt, though that convention falls away by the end of the story. He's a slow to get riled caretaker for a young Chip Anderson (Renato Cestie) who has to slug his way through a slew of bad hombres until the payoff. The orphan boy is the sole owner of 'Welldigger's Roost', a ramshackle cabin in the ramshackle town of Westland, but the object of much interest by the town's all around judge/preacher/sheriff Franciscus (Francisco Rabal), and a curious dirt eating prospector. The old coot has a taste for gold, but it's an oil gusher that eventually proves out on the 'Roost'.Until that point, Coburn stays busy dodging Sonny Bronston (Palance) and his sister Mary (Dany Saval). Sonny wants to make an honest woman of his sister, apparently after a fling with Coburn, although if you follow the film closely, that's not really ever made clear. Mary pretends to be pregnant, which puts her brother's plans for killing Coburn on hold, but Coburn himself never really fesses up to the deed. The best line of the film is his during the wedding ceremony which he attends hogtied - Mary - "But why have they got you tied up?" Coburn - "To restrain my enthusiasm." Though filmed in color, there are a fair amount of drab sequences that look virtually black and white. The print I viewed also seemed to be badly edited, subject to jump cuts that change the direction of the story on a dime; it occurred enough times to be annoying.I liked Palance in the flick, almost a two decade preview of his character(s) in the "City Slickers" franchise. Whether on purpose or not, he changes accents frequently in the picture, with his Mexican take the best. It's a hoot to see his 'girls' fawning all over him; one gets the impression they might have been part of a traveling whorehouse, but they never did more than kick up their heels at the Westland saloon. Except for Mary, they could have all gotten a bit more screen time, amigo.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) I must admit to being relatively new to the whole Bud Spencer/Terence Fisher thing, but I've already found myself a personal favorite movie in the stack. This infectious, dopey, quasi-surreal Spaghetti Western/comedy, tailor-written for Bud Spencer, then at the height of his post TRINITY glory.Like a good Simpson's episode, IT CAN BE DONE AMIGO's plot defies verbal description: A shambling, lummox like behemoth of a scoundrel (Spencer, standing about 6'4" and weighing 300lbs easy) finds himself going from two bit horse thief to community hero, in spite of his best efforts to avoid otherwise. He is also avoiding Jack Palance, comically over the top as a super-slick Pistolero who will see his "disgraced" sister married to the lummox, or else. Palance is traveling the west with his group of showgirls that he promotes in the most ridiculous looking coach I have ever seen in a Western, and at one point suffers a bout of whiplash that renders him bent over like a pretzel for about a quarter of the film. There are additional intrigues about a young boy traveling to his fostered parent's homestead with an uncle, who turns out to be dead but still entrusts the tyke to Spencer anyway. With much grumbling and gruff muttering, Spencer slowly becomes a father figure, the kid decides that Palance's sister would make a good mother figure, and even plots by local desperadoes won't stop this rolling boulder of humanity once it gets going.And also like a good Simspon's episode, what the film does is to present us with a small community of memorable, likable, amusing cartoon characters who inhabit a very real world made up of what appear to be sets left over from ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, but now somewhat run down and falling apart. The whole film has a sort of ramshackle, on-the-fly look to it that is very endearing, having the appearance of a typical Western, but being a whole heck of a lot more. Even the meanies in the movie have very human qualities, like the identical twin mustachioed gunfighters (one is left handed, the other right), the weaselly Desperado that Spencer cons out of a turkey dinner in the film's beguiling opening section (the look on Spencer's face after having a bottle broken over his head is priceless: "Not again ..."), and especially Jack Palance, who has never been better as he chomps on a cigarillo and intones "You're gonna marry my seester".Then there is the wandering geologist who pays people to eat some of their dirt (he's looking for oil), Spencer's highly intelligent and communicative horse (who is asked for and gives advice on a few occasions), the bumbling gang of Pistoleros who keep trying to do Spencer in and keep paying for it, and the pretty, busty, blond woman who only wants to marry Spencer, whom she has a love/hate relationship with that is especially amusing when they discuss his eating habits ("I eat like a hog 'cos that's the way I like it."). The effect that this otherwise dainty, attractive young woman has upon the huge, gentle Spencer is the film's best joke, because he only wants to eat, ride, talk with his horse, and not have any responsibilities.Don't we all, though? The movie IS Spencer's, and was either written specifically for him OR was the role he was born to play, probably a bit of both. One of the alternate titles for the film is THE BULLDOZER RETURNS, AMIGO and is very telling of his Hiram Coburn. He doesn't wear a gun, and doesn't need to. He is big, strong, fast, and outsmarts people as much as pounding them into the ground like telephone poles. One of the interesting quirks given to his character is that Spencer puts on a pair of Ben Franklin wire rim glasses just before he starts swinging the beef, and my favorite moment from the film is when one of the bad guys tries three swift punches to his bread box that have the effect of punching the Hoover Dam. It's hilarious ...But to use the analogy one more time because it's so fitting, just like a good Simpson's episode, you have to see it for yourself to understand the magic that this stupid, funny, quirky little movie has going on. And you can: Look for a DVD Box Set by the nefarious Treeline Films obnoxiously called FIFTY WESTERN CLASSICS with 50 fullframe PDM Westerns on twelve double sided DVDs, each enclosed it it's own cardboard drink coaster. The print used was a dingy, fullframe formatted TV print, but it's utterly hilarious, addictively watchable, somewhat thought provoking, and proves once again that the best movies are always the ones that tell stories about people. Perhaps Mr. Lucas should have given this a looksee while making up his last STAR WARS movie, which was about action figures and computer games and making money. And as a result, it sucked. IT CAN BE DONE AMIGO was shot on a budget of probably less than $100,000 in even today's money, and is a far superior entertainment that actually has a soul. Imagine that.I give this one unusually high marks: Nine out of ten, and recommend it to anyone planning to put relics of humanity into a satellite to be launched in the direction of the galaxy Andromeda as an example of what we were capable of.