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Wick's Review
Summary - OK 2.5
A big budget disaster when it came out at the end of the Sixties, Paint Your Wagon is a modestly entertaining extravaganza today. Faint praise? Indeed, for a musical comedy that is long on star power and short on memorable songs and effective humor.
Oh yeah, it’s also long on time. I watched it on a transatlantic flight, where its nearly three hour running length proved a virtue. At home, not so much.
Acting - Good 3.0
Lee Marvin is a bit over-the-top as a wild and wooly prospector, Clint Eastwood boyishly charming as his junior partner. Their singing? Competent if unremarkable. But then neither superstar is thought of as a singer.
Jean Seberg is lovely as their love interest, even if her performance isn’t especially distinctive.
Male Stars - Very Good 3.5
Female Stars - Good 3.0
Female Costars - OK 2.5
Male Costars - Good 3.0
Film - OK 2.5
Broad humor that is more corny than LOL and fair-to-middling songs more than outweigh the film’s terrific setting and scenery.