A fairly pleasant time killer.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 17, 2022

Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are quite the duo in The Frisco Kid--it's a shame they didn't work together more. It's one of Wilder's best roles in his career, too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2022

A nice little ditty that feats neatly in the "mildly amusing" category.

| Mar 27, 2019

A weakly scripted, largely unfunny comedy-western intermittently helped by Gene Wilder's then-considerable charm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2018

Though Robert Aldrich can be a capable director of action yarns (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard), one would never guess it after sitting through this aimless, interminable (122 minutes) mess.

| Dec 12, 2018

A comedy drama that isn't as comic as it thinks it is, nor as dramatic as it should be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2018

The Frisco Kid just misses being very good, perhaps because although Wilder is funny and endearing, we never quite believe in the character he plays.

| Dec 12, 2018

Robert Aldrich is an awesomely inappropriate choice to direct an ethnic Western comedy. Nothing in the material appears to stimulate -- or profit from -- Aldrich's erstwhile proficiency with violent or cynical entertainments.

| Dec 12, 2018

It's a not a great movie and there's plenty of room for improvement, but thanks to Wilder, Ford and a dose of nostalgia, I had fun revisiting it after all these years.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2012

The Frisco Kid is, all pratfalls and tuchus jokes aside, the quintessential "Torah "movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2009

Frisco Kid remains a series of set pieces, however, and not a cohesive film.

| Mar 26, 2009

Absurd Western spoof, that relies almost solely on its ethnic brand of humor to get over.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 2, 2007

Aldrich was a man's man director; he could direct black comedy, but he had no idea how to handle the straightforward, earnest brand on display here.

| May 26, 2006

Aldrich's film is a timeless classic with a bevy of super performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2006

The Frisco Kid made me laugh several times and smile often... I'd say that makes it at least a mildly successful film and a fairly enjoyable one, too.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 13, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 23, 2005

Robert Aldrich's penultimate film is an easygoing work of some considerable charm that relies far too much on ethnic humor to sit quite as comfortably as it might like.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 15, 2005

There's no shortage of talent in The Frisco Kid, but it's the wrong talent for the wrong material.

| May 9, 2005

Cute but forgettable Western comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2005

The Wilder character has a sweetness, a niceness, that's interesting for the character but doesn't seem to work with this material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004