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"City Slickers in Westworld" by "The Director Brothers" (what a stupid credit!) is an American live action short film from 2017 that runs for under 6 minutes, which makes it still considerably longer than your average Funny Or Die production. Yep, this is what it is, so you already know what to expect I assume because they have really made so many short films over the years that there's probably almost nobody out there anymore who hasn't seen one of them. This one here is probably among their more, but not most known. This also has a lot to do with famous actor Billy Crystal on board. I don't mind him honestly, neither as an actor nor as a host, but he can also only be as good as the script lets him be and honestly most of the references and punchlines in here are not particularly good. The general idea here is not too inspired either. I mean you can literally create a mash-up between every show with every other show. Or movie instead of show. And this is what they did here. You can find the names of the projects they were spoofing in the title. I am not familiar with either, even if I want to see at least one of them and be it only for Ed Harris. Noww him being on board here would have been fun. But fun is not what they deliver. It is the usual Funny Or Die approach that is very much about how the film does not take itself seriously, but this is not enough anymore these days. The best example is the "other Hemsworth" reference. That was pretty cringeworthy because it as so true. It is for good reason that Liam is not a part of this project and Chris definitely isn't either. So the first 4.5 to 5 minutes were pretty forgettable. It does get better at the end when we find out about all you can get for 5 bucks and this is also because of how stunning Angela Sarafyan is here. And I thought she would be like 10 years younger than she actually is. Oh well. It was also funny too with how the other guy desperately hopes he can get something similar for his cash too. He's not Billy Crystal though, so not gonna happen. Besides, the voice-over at the end almost ruined it again. Overall, I would not say it is a failure, but also not on a level where I would give it a recommendation. And saying about a 6-minute movie that it does include not enough funny moments, even for this running time, is pretty telling for sure. Or perhaps ot is necessary to be a big fan of one of the two projects mentioned in the title or it is necessary that you just watched at leastg one of them, but this really should not be a criterion for any film that you have seen something else not too long ago, especially if this new film (well "new" as it is from 2017) is nothing creative really, but just using comedy about the creativity from other people. Watch something else instead.