There are comedies that chase the gag, and there are comedies that build a world so ridiculous that the gags feel inevitable. John Landis’s ¡Three Amigos! (1986), starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short, belongs squarely in the second camp. Part parody, part homage, it takes the bones of a Hollywood Western and dressesContinue reading “The Absurd Heroics of ¡Three Amigos!”
