City Slickers (1991)
Directed by Ron Underwood
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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It’s no longer just the teenagers learning life lessons anymore; now an elderly duo, sporting a “Grumpy Old Men” vibe (along with themes from “City Slickers”), takes over half of the show.
The bird is such a delightful screen presence that “The Shallows” could do for seagulls what “City Slickers” did for calves; at the very least, you’ll be a little more forgiving the next time one of those flying squawk monsters shits on you at the beach.
Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, the unstoppable comedy-writing duo (18 movies, including “Splash” and “City Slickers”), were lured away from live action to write the script with playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.
Written by the veteran comedy writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ('70s sitcoms Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days and the movies City Slickers and Parenthood), the movie's one-liners are sometimes funny, other times flat.
"Ice Age" director Chris Wedge and co-director Carlos Saldanha work from a polished script by the acclaimed screenwriting duo of Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel ("City Slickers") to create a slapstick brand of humor with retro styled robots attempting to save their species from being outmoded by slash and burn capitalism.
This team, responsible for such comedy classics as "Splash," "A League of their Own," and "City Slickers," know the proper balance between comedy and action, drama and sentiment.
At least those bits are fun to watch, whereas the comedy, taken in part from the pens of the reliably disappointing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (City Slickers, Fathers' Day), just kind of drifts by unnoticed.