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Created Oct 06, 2012 08:34PM PST • Edited Jan 30, 2016 02:51AM PST

1. Quality

2. 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.

4. 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.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars OK 2.5

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. 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.

11. Direction OK 2.5

12. Play Barely OK 2.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.6

17. Sex Titillating 1.7

18. Violence Gentle 1.5

19. Rudeness Salty 1.7

21. Reality

    Glib 1.9

22. Circumstantial Glib 2.0

23. Biological Glib 1.7

24. Physical Glib 2.0