That was an excellent one.

A lot of fun.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

A woman (Jane Fonda) seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he is very different from what she expects.I think most people would say the essential comedy western (or western comedy?) is "Blazing Saddles". But with all due respect to Mel Brooks, that was never one of my favorite films of his. And I think the humor in "Cat Ballou", while not as biting, is just right to be enjoyed by a wide range of audiences. Both adults and kids can find amusement.This may also be the best role that Jane Fonda ever had. I would be hard-pressed to think of one that even comes close. Although, today (2016), she is better remembered for her political actions than for her film roles. Maybe it is time to re-evaluate that? "Cat Ballou" is the favorite film of comedy directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly, as stated in The AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs television special. The Balladeers from their film, "There's Something About Mary", are inspired by similar characters in "Cat Ballou". That's an interesting fact to know.

I get that the movie is a spoof on westerns, but it's just not funny. Not sure why the screenplay got nominated for an academy award, the writing is pretty bad and off in this movie. Every punchline pretty much doesn't work to the effect it should. I give this movie a 5 rating and I'll break it down why.2 Stars for Lee Marvins performance. Everyone else is pretty much off in their performance and that's due also to bad pacing, directing and a poor script. But Marvin saves the movie in some sense. Lee Marvin has one of the best scenes in the movie where he goes to confront his brother, but the scene is so out of context, it belongs in a completely different movie. I think Marvin should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor and maybe won in that category, but winning for Best Actor? He's not the lead by far in this movie.I give 3 stars for just looking at Jane Fonda. Her legs and buttocks are to die for, she was always a workout fiend on her legs and it shows in this movie. They talk about how J-Lo started the big booty craze, but really Jane Fonda did in some way, she has a huge booty for a white woman, one with muscle and definition too. So I give 3 stars just for drooling over her body in this one. And she's always nice to look at in the face too.Other than that, this one isn't worth much of a look.

Jane Fonda plays the heroine in director Elliot Silverstein's "Cat Ballou," a hilarious western comedy about young, beautiful school teacher who becomes a train robber to avenge her father's murder. Lee Marvin co-starred with her in a dual role as the ruthless killer Tim Strawn and the alcoholic gunslinger Kid Shelleen whose life has been immortalized in dime novels. Cat's father Frankie (John Marley) owns land that the Wolf City Development Company wants. When conventional methods such as stuffing manure down his well doesn't work to force Frankie to sell, the Wolf City bunch dispatches Tim Strawn. Strawn is an evil looking gunman who wears a tin nose over his nose that was bitten off in a fight. Before Frankie dies, Cat summons Kid Shelleen for $50 to help them. Frankie is astonished to learn that Shelleen is an alcoholic. As it turns out, Shelleen shoots well when he is boozed up. He can strike a tin can flying through the air with a single shot. After Frankie dies, Shelleen takes the outcast Cat and her companions, Clay Boone (Michael Callen) and Jed (Dwayne Hickman), and her Native American pal Jackson Two-Bears (Tom Nardini) to the infamous Hole-in-the-Wall hideout. Our heroine plans to rob a train. As it turns out, the man who owns the train is an Englishman, Sir Harry Percival (the ever dependable Reginald Denny), who is the man behind the Wolf City dastards. Our heroine kills Sir Harry by accident when she brandishes a pistol and they struggle over it. During their scuffle, the gun discharges and kills Sir Harry. Cat is imprisoned in the Wolf City jail and sentenced to hang on the gallows. Naturally, our heroes arrange to rescue our heroine. The scene when the drunken Shelleen is sitting astraddle his horse that is leaning against the wall of a store with its fore hoofs crossed is very funny. Lee Marvin won an Academy Award for her performance. Stubby Kaye and Nate King Cole play a charismatic pair of balladeers who appear at intervals to warble and strum the ballad of Cat Ballou. This film bears striking resemblance to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" in certain parts. Jane Fonda is gorgeous as usual and endearing as the heroine.

After her father is murdered by land grabbing rail road mercenaries daughter Cat (Jane Fonda) vows not to be intimidated or removed from her parcel. For insurance she hires hard drinking gunfighter Kid Shaleen (Lee Marvin) to level the playing field. Problem is the Kid is more drunk than gunfighter these days and it's left up to Cat and the boys to get him in fighting shape to face a nose-less fast gun (also played by Marvin).Cat Ballou is simply all Marvin as the drunken Kid Shaleen with an able assist from a cross legged mount that seems as drunk as The Kid. The generic settler versus railroad scenario is ho hum at best and while Jane Fonda is a comely visage in snug jeans and check blouse she along with the rest of the drab cast contribute most by staying out of the way of the uproariously funny lurching and stumbling Marvin and steed. As semi musical narrators there's some pleasant musical interludes offered up by a pair of strolling balladeers played by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye but in this film nobody comes close to outdrawing Marvin's top gun performance.