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¡Three Amigos! (1986)

post #1 of 20
7/3/11 at 4:07pm
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I hadn't seen this since I was a child so there was clearly a lot that I had forgotten. I just revisited it today (part of my Steve Martin spree) and I enjoyed it. Some of the jokes I've seen before in other movies but they worked really well here and I laughed a lot at them. The "it's a mail plane" gag and the "invisible swordsman" joke. Both great. I especially love when Short picks up the Invisible Swordsmans hand and drops it. It's a small joke but I loved it.

 

All three leads, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short play well off of each other.

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post #2 of 20
7/3/11 at 4:25pm

If the last remaining copies in existance of Three Amigos! & Young Frankenstein were being held over a volcano & I had to choose which film to rescue from being destroyed, I'd choose the former.

 

Dusty Bottoms...heh heh

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post #3 of 20
7/3/11 at 5:35pm

This film has a plethora of comedic riches. Love it.

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post #4 of 20
7/3/11 at 6:58pm
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The camp fire scene is so ridiculous. Such an obvious back drop and terrible set design. I couldn't stand it when the scene started and I thought the backdrop was going to end up being a joke like they were going to stand up and it turned out it was a mural on a wall. But once Chevy started singing, the turtle was bobbing it's head and the bobcat showed up, I couldn't help but fall for the scene. I was laughing until it finished.

 

And Martin Short just hanging with his feet stuck in the pinata for pretty much that entire fight scene was great.

 

"Not so fast, El Gaupo! Or I'll fill you full of so much lead you'll be using your dick as a pencil."

"What do you mean?"

"... I don't know."

 

And how did the town have the time to make all those costumes! Aahahaha!!

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post #5 of 20
7/3/11 at 7:06pm

Most people forget that Short was a total unknown before this film, and what a big deal it was that he was cast alongside two of the biggest comedic stars in Hollywood at the time. I remember all the articles in the paper and magazines all basically running along the lines of "Martin, Chase and WHO?".

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post #6 of 20
7/3/11 at 7:37pm

Yeah its classic. Landis was still doing fine work and the trio makes it happen. Even though I think Chase was coasting way too much. Love the film.

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post #7 of 20
7/4/11 at 12:22pm

I rewatched this earlier in the year myself and it held up 100% for me too.

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post #8 of 20
7/4/11 at 12:31pm

For some reason the list of War movies Short is in always makes me smile.  

 

Great movie that deserves all the love it's getting.

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post #9 of 20
7/4/11 at 7:42pm

 

So many great moments in Amigos, but this is still my favorite one.

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post #10 of 20
7/4/11 at 7:59pm

I've been a huge fan of this movie since I was 6 years old. I also think Alfonso Arau and Tony Plana basically steal the movie.

 

"WHAT DE HELL IS GOING ON!? ARE GRINGOS FALLING FROM DE SKY?"

 

(Ned falls)

 

"Yes, El Guapo."

 

Then there's great little bits like the already mentioned pencil bit and this.

 

"Leave him here. He might want to see his friend die."

 

"I've seen it."

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post #11 of 20
7/4/11 at 8:05pm

"A sweater? You guys got me a sweater!!"

 

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post #12 of 20
7/4/11 at 8:40pm

"Tell me Carmen, do you know what foreplay is?"

 

"No.."

 

"Good, neither does El Guapo."

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post #13 of 20
7/4/11 at 9:28pm

I think it's a toss up between Short over-selling of the mail plane gag and the ridiculous chants they have to do just before Chase shoots the Invisible Swordsman for moments that always make me giggle without fail.

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post #14 of 20
7/4/11 at 9:49pm

Chase's "words" are the best, because they don't even sound intelligible.

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post #15 of 20
7/4/11 at 10:51pm

My favorite part of the whole movie is when El Guapo and his men are riding away from their base and a woman runs out holding the sweater and crying.

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post #16 of 20
7/5/11 at 3:38am

If this thread just turns into a quote-a-thon, that'd be fine by me.

 

 

"Oh Dusty... Infamous, is when you're more than famous. This guy El Guapo is not just famous, he's infamous!"

 

"Wow! Infamous? INFAMOUS!?"

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post #17 of 20
7/5/11 at 3:51am

The water bottles in the desert to the singing bush to the invisible swordsman is one of the funniest few minutes of anything ever.

 

Also:

 

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In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be *the actual* El Guapo! 

 

 

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post #18 of 20
7/5/11 at 9:44am
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post

Most people forget that Short was a total unknown before this film, and what a big deal it was that he was cast alongside two of the biggest comedic stars in Hollywood at the time. I remember all the articles in the paper and magazines all basically running along the lines of "Martin, Chase and WHO?".



I must have missed those articles-- he certainly wasn't totally unknown since the film came right on the heels of his SNL tenure (his Ed Grimley character was VERY big for a second), and I knew him from SCTV before that. (ETA: 'Course, I wasn't in Australia. Did those shows play there?)

 

I feel that Amigos is a far superior tribute to the Western than Blazing Saddles, which continues to garner the larger following. Christopher Frayling's essay on the film, "A Plethora of Piñatas", is well worth hunting down.

 

 

"Can I have your watch when you are dead?"


Edited by Hammerhead - 7/5/11 at 10:13am
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post #19 of 20
7/5/11 at 10:02am

i think they are both on a par to be honest, they are different takes on the same theme.  Saddles may just edge out Amigos for the insane chase scene at the end.

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post #20 of 20
7/5/11 at 10:10am

Maybe as a straight-up comedy it's more successful, but that chase is the point where Saddles stops caring about being a Western at all.

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