The stunning Mexican scenery is gorgeous, but only works against the comedic mood.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 25, 2022

The jokes here sound a lot funnier than they play.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 15, 2014

[An] anemic Blazing Saddles-wannabe.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2013

Awful. A candidate for one of the year's worst movies.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2013

The jokes tend to be watered-down versions of the tasteless kind that enlivened the Naked Gun movies and the early films of Mel Brooks.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 22, 2013

Although a comedy rife in lively characters, Wagons East! affords star John Candy one of the poorest, drabest, and thoroughly unfunniest roles of his career.

| May 22, 2013

A poorly focused and rhythmless collection of vignettes, Wagons East! does contain a few funny ideas and some decent performances that simply are not enough to rescue the movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2013

A stridently unfunny western comedy that is equally lame in its writing and direction.

| May 22, 2013

There's little to praise in Peter Markle's handling of Matthew Carlson's heavy-handed screenplay.

| May 22, 2013

This forgettable comedy western is quite dreadful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 22, 2013

A wagon train of disgruntled pioneers returning to the East is the incidental setting for tired, adolescent humor in this ponderous and directionless comedy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2013

With credits that include such garbage as Hot Dog... The Movie, director and former hockey player Peter Markle displays an utter lack of comic sensibility.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 22, 2013

A sunshiney hodgepodge of bad jokes, nice scenery and reverse stereotypes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2013

A typically rickety vehicle, just dumb enough that it actually submerges Candy's sweet, perky persona in what's basically a sullen, grizzled straight-man role.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 22, 2013

Everyone's creative burners were on low heat for this woeful outing.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2012

[A] broken-down nag of a movie.

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

In what purports to be a comedic spin on the wagon-train Western genre, John Candy is sadly almost unrecognisable with a scruffy beard and long hair.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 24, 2007

The humour is sufficiently scattershot to hit the mark once or twice, but basically a no-brains comedy.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2005