Soothing a clump of Mexican children, Short-who plays a former child star named Ned Nederlander-regales them with Dorothy Gish anecdotes. Even when the bad guys start shooting, the three find time to dissect the villains’ performance before the smoke clears. (You know they’re in trouble when a street urchin asks, “Can I have your watch when you’re dead?”) It’s the comedy of misapprehension, and director John Landis milks the situation for every laugh possible, taking impish delight in showing how ill-prepared these show-biz saviors are for life outside the studio gates. They hit town, dolled up in their fancy, prop-department “charro” duds, only to find real bullets buzzing by their heads. Needless to say, these Hollywood tenderfoots are in for a rude awakening. Suddenly out of work, the bumbling trio are only too happy to head south of the border, thinking they’ve been hired (for 100,000 pesos) to make a quickie personal appearance.
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When an innocent senorita (Patrice Martinez) sees a silent movie starring the dashing amigos (Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short), she is so taken by their heroism that she begs their aid in toppling this cruel tyrant.īy the time the matinee idols get her garbled telegram, they’ve been booted off the Goldsmith Pictures lot for demanding a raise. The action takes us back to 1916, when the tiny Mexican village of Santa Poco is being terrorized by a gang of banditos led by El Guapo (Alfonso Arau), a villainous outlaw who looks as if he hasn’t brushed his teeth since the Spanish-American War. Who would’ve thought that a movie loaded with so many corny jokes and wobbly slapstick routines could be one of the daffiest comedies of the year? And it’s this giddy artifice that gives “Three Amigos” a delightfully fresh spin. Nothing is real in this wacky Western charade-not even the poster-board sunsets.
It’s like a cross between a big-budget Three Stooges movie and a Hope-Crosby road picture, with dozens of old cowpoke gags thrown in to spice up the brew. Maybe that’s why this tale of a trio of inept silent-movie stars turned real-life heroes is such a goofy delight. There’s hardly a moment in “Three Amigos” (citywide) that isn’t silly-make that incredibly, outrageously and breathtakingly silly.
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