Goin' South
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Movie Reviews of Goin' South
Movie Review: What a great potential...!
Summary: 4 Stars
Some very good ideas in this western. Some extremely good situations. Some good suspended situations too. And yet we regret Nicholson is directing himself. He can't see himself when he is acting and that shows tremendously in the film. It explains some slow and long sequences that should have been packed in the acting itself. That explains why the actor Jack Nicholson is too often using some faces and attitudes and gestures that we have already seen in The Shining, in The Witches of Eastwood, or in many other films. He cannot see himself and thus he cannot direct himself properly. And there were and are some extremely potential situations. There could have been, and there should have been.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Movie Review: Goin' South and Beyond
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie when it first came out and time has not changed my mind. It is a funny movie, with my favorite scenes being when Nicholson's old gang shows up at the house and he tells his bride to have a drink and loosen up but watch what she says. Mary Steenburgen plays the inebriated, straight laced woman to the hilt for some of the best laughs in the movie, as well as when she looks at her eyes in the mirror for that "tell tale sign". Nicholson's facial expressions are worth watching as they fill in between the lines and give a whole new meaning to the phrase "twisted grin"! I highly recommend this movie for some great laughs!Movie Review: Good Comic Western
Summary: 4 Stars
"Goin' South",directed by star Jack Nicholson, is an engaging lightweight comic western. The story concerns a two-bit outlaw(Nicholson) saved from the gallows by a virginal ordinance bride(Mary Steenburgen). The chemistry between Nicholson and Steenburgen, in her film debut, is excellent. The story, though it sags in part, keeps you interested throughout. Christopher Lloyd has an amusing bit as a sheriff's deputy. To the film's detriment it wastes the talents of John Belushi and Danny DeVito in miniscule parts. A minor film in the impressive canon of Jack Nicholson's career but a film well worth seeing.Movie Review: A DEFINITE LAUGHER
Summary: 4 Stars
This was the first incarnaction of Jack reading the phone book: You don't care what's being said because Jack's saying it. GOIN' SOUTH is so pointless it can't help but be funny. The scene where Jack devours the boiled chicken is hysterical (then dead panning to Mary Steenburgen, "How about a little DE-sert?"). I wonder how much of this film was off the script and how much was improved. GOIN' SOUTH isn't ground breaking comedy, but it is a definite laugher.Movie Review: a crazy comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
This isn't so much a Western as it is a crazy comedy, with screwball characters, lots of mugging, wild behavior, funny situations and twists, and a great cast featuring the young Mary Steenburgen and John Belushi, as well as Jack Nicholson, Danny deVito, and Christopher Lloyd.
A fun romp.