Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

winner55 For forty years (oops, revealed my age, oh well), I have been trying to track this down. I first saw this film at age twelve, in a drive in theater, on a double bill with (I think) a re-release of "The Great Race". Historical note: the version I saw was dubbed, not subtitled (I long thought it Italian in origin); the tinting was not sepia with yellow highlights, it was just glaring yellow; and it was called "The Lemonaid Kid" not "Lemonaid Joe" (hence part of the difficulty tracking it down). (Since this release title is reminiscent of "The Lemondrop Kid", I can imagine paranoid lawyers at MGM giving this film's release a lot of hassle, which may explain how it got so buried.) I thought it the funniest thing I had ever seen and that impression stuck with me as I grew older and developed a taste for the more absurdist and aggressive style of comedy, e.g., the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, etc. i knew I had seen something very special in "Lemonaid", but found no references to it in movie catalogs like the Maltin book, and nobody who knew films seemed to know anything about it - and I come from Rochester, NY, home of the second largest collection of film in the country, the Dryden-Eastman collection. People there know film. But nobody knew this film.This film had a major impact on a very young man and changed his taste in comedy forever, and perhaps changed all of his perceptions, insofar as humor is one of the most important responses we make to the world. That says a lot for the power of this film. I certainly hope another viewing will justify my warm memories of it.Note added August 26, 2009:Well, I finally found it - it is currently available in 10 chapters at Youtube.It is not only everything I remember it for, but far more - one of the wildest visual comedies of its era and one of the sharpest satires I have ever seen.The only weakness is the ending - while it makes its point, it's too blunt and too easy.But the rest of the film is basically Brecht-Weill remaking "Support Your Local Sheriff" (which hadn't been made yet, of course) - absolutely incredible mix of pop culture and art-house comedy styles, as unforgettable now as it was 40 years ago (well beyond mere 'camp,' it hasn't aged a bit), decidedly one of a kind.(PS - I've read Leone fans wondering if this film references "fistful of Dollars" - oh, no - Leone, Corbucci, and other Italian directors were almost certainly influenced by this.)

carbon-12 I am happy to find out that also in USA, where the parody aims to, are people that find the movie funny. It is a bit different view to Europeans and American westerns, using distinctive style of humor. I am not kind of people who would laugh from the beginning to the end, but i can see it many times and I find always the style of humor interesting and i enjoy the seeing. There are a bit slower parts what can someone understand as an attempt for seriousness in the movie but it really does not compete with real western movies.For the people writing here about the projections in USA with English dubbing. There is out a DVD with both English and Czech tracks. {published by www.filmexport.cz, but quite expensive}

ritznk I saw this film in the early seventies with a number of friends at Portland State University. I've seen it once and only once. Still, I can easily say it is one of the ten funniest movies ever. I am amazed to find it in your database! It is indeed a broad parody of the western movie genre: cliche piled upon cliche, yet still surprising and delightful. This movie can hold its own with Dr. Strangelove and The Marx Brothers. Its that good. I don't know where PSU got their hands on a dubbed in version, but if there is one out there on video tape, I know a lot of people who would do almost anything for a copy.

frbrooks I first saw this film, an excellent English dubbed version which made it totally comprehensible, at an El Paso, Texas movie theatre many years ago. The imagery and style are what really carry the movie. It is a brilliant, hilarious, outrageous spoof of the early American cowboy western. The central character, Lemonade Joe, is a personification of "clean living" and a combination of all those early movie cowboy heroes in the tradition of William S. Hart, Tom Mix, and Hopalong Cassidy. The movie follows Joe as he attempts to rid the town saloon of liquor and promote his own product creation Kola-Loca-Lemonade. As you can well imagine, Joe in his efforts has to confront some rather mean varmints especially one appropriately name Duke Badman who at one point in the movie gets the better of Joe by spiking his lemonade drink with liquor causing him to gag and pass out. But in the end, good triumphs over evil for as Lemonade Joe so philosophically declares at one point in the movie "Evil can not stand against a clean-living man."