Rustlers' Rhapsody tries to challenge the age old rule that you can't satirize the Western, and fails.

Even on the mechanical level in which it was made, the number of jokes that don't work far outnumber the ones that do.

As a 10-minute sketch on Saturday Night Live, it probably would have been dynamite. But at 1 hour, 28 minutes, the picture seems padded.

The basic premise isn’t clearly defined.