Devin's comment about Daniel Stern for the Whip It trailer made me think of this movie again and pop it in. I hadn't seen it for years!
My first exposure to City Slickers was through its sequel. I saw it at a friend's birthday party and was pleasantly entertained. This must've been back in elementary school or early junior high.
It was only a few years later I watched the first movie when I got to rent it on home video. And even back then, I knew there was something different about the first movie from the highly 'sequelized' sequel before I even knew how to articulate it.
It may simply be a lot of nostalgia for something I watched when I was a kid, but rewatching the film today, I realized that I pretty much love City Slickers. And that mostly has everything to do with the fact that I love the chemistry between Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, and Bruno Kirby. Great rapport, nice balance, and a nice arc for each of them through the film. And of course, Jack Palance's short but very sweet role as Curly.
Like Billy Crystal, you could say the film is lame ("HellooooOOOoo?" Ugh...) and dated (difficulty programing VCRs!? Shame!). But I guess that's part of its charm. And I can't help but feel the warm fuzzies when I hear Marc Shaiman's score play its main theme as the boys go, "Yeeeehaaaaw!"
But I think simply watching it now that I'm a little older makes the film resonate a lot more on an emotional level as opposed to simply being some funny movie where city guys try to be cowboys. Am I crazy that I think this cheesy, sentimental comedy from the early 90s could be one of those unassumingly perfect films?
Of course, this is also the movie where Jake Gyllenhal shows us that he really loves seeing his parents make out.
And a bit of Helen Slater also goes a long way.
My first exposure to City Slickers was through its sequel. I saw it at a friend's birthday party and was pleasantly entertained. This must've been back in elementary school or early junior high.
It was only a few years later I watched the first movie when I got to rent it on home video. And even back then, I knew there was something different about the first movie from the highly 'sequelized' sequel before I even knew how to articulate it.
It may simply be a lot of nostalgia for something I watched when I was a kid, but rewatching the film today, I realized that I pretty much love City Slickers. And that mostly has everything to do with the fact that I love the chemistry between Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, and Bruno Kirby. Great rapport, nice balance, and a nice arc for each of them through the film. And of course, Jack Palance's short but very sweet role as Curly.
Like Billy Crystal, you could say the film is lame ("HellooooOOOoo?" Ugh...) and dated (difficulty programing VCRs!? Shame!). But I guess that's part of its charm. And I can't help but feel the warm fuzzies when I hear Marc Shaiman's score play its main theme as the boys go, "Yeeeehaaaaw!"
But I think simply watching it now that I'm a little older makes the film resonate a lot more on an emotional level as opposed to simply being some funny movie where city guys try to be cowboys. Am I crazy that I think this cheesy, sentimental comedy from the early 90s could be one of those unassumingly perfect films?
Of course, this is also the movie where Jake Gyllenhal shows us that he really loves seeing his parents make out.
And a bit of Helen Slater also goes a long way.
