Dont let the aw shucks charm and disarmingly neurotic gumption of Seth MacFarlanes Albert fool you.

Too bad his second featureA Million Ways to Die in the Westis shooting mostly blanks.

There is no doubt that MacFarlane is a comic force to be reckoned with.

As loud as critics may howl, there is a reasonFamily Guyis preparing to enter its fourteenth season.

And 2012sTedis as hilarious as, well, a plush teddy bear dropping some f-bombs.

Thus its all the more mystifying that she doesnt equally loathe MacFarlanes hapless hero.

Already married since the age of nine (she didnt want to become a 15-year-old spinster!

Visually,A Million Ways to Die in the Westhas an appealingly classical vision to it.

Shot in (where else?)

And how much better served we might have been for it.

a musical number thatd do Stephen Foster proud.

He couched the sermon in a message about seeing the job through.

It is thus a shame that finishing this lagging stagecoach journey to its end credits feels equally as obligatory.

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Rating:

2.5 out of 5