Three Amigos

• Steve Martin: Lucky Day
• Chevy Chase: Dusty Bottoms
• Martin Short: Ned Nederlander
• Patrice Martinez: Carmen
• Alfonso Arau: El Guapo

¡ Three Amigos! is an American Western comedy from 1986, in which the comedian Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short occur in the lead roles. The film satirizes classic of the Western genre, wherein the act of John Sturges ' The Magnificent Seven is based strongly that an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa 's Seven Samurai itself. In addition, figures from other genres dive ( " the German ", played by Kai Wulff ), and figures such as the "singing bush " ( featuring the voice of Randy Newman) on.

Alfonso Arau, who plays the Mexican bandit here, was previously known as an actor in similar roles, most probably by Sam Peckinpah's classic The Wild Bunch.

Action

Hollywood in 1916: the three Cowboy Starring Lucky, Dusty and Ned, known as the silent film heroes "Three Amigos ", lose their jobs. As they reached the cry for help of a Mexican community, the evil bandit El Guapo Captain (Spanish for, the lookers ') is exploited. Believing that it was for a job as an actor traveling three to Mexico. When they realize after the first encounters with the bandits that the villagers had kept their film roles for reality and they should help in a real conflict, they still decide to put an end to the terror El Guapos. Together, they manage to defeat the bandits and save the village.

Reviews

" Fussy Wild West romp with musical interludes, which combines the romantic adventurism earlier genre films with modest jokes, without the prescribed passion for " good old cinema " to clarify. "

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times 12 December 1986, the film was not actually funny. Steve Martin would act as if he would distance himself from the character played.