From Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Ted” and tv’s “Family Guy”, comes the abysmal “A Million Ways To Die In The West”. This is a Western comedy but instead of ridiculing the genre, it just adds a lot of bodily fluids. It’s lazy, it’s tedious and the dialog is some of the worst I have ever heard in any movie.

Set in 1882, unhappy sheep farmer Albert (MacFarlane) is struggling to cope with breaking up with his girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried “Mean Girls”) and the barbarity of his surroundings. He eventually falls for Anna (Charlize Theron “The Devil’s Advocate”, “Atomic Blonde”) but little does he know that she is the wife of feared gunslinger Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson “Schindler’s List”, “Michael Collins”).

MacFarlane is just absolutely awful. He never says anything funny but his mouth never stops moving. Liam Neeson is okay as the villain. I did not really care for Charlize Theron or Amanda Seyfried. Neil Patrick Harris (“Starship Troopers”), Sarah Silverman (“Wreck-It Ralph”), Ewan McGregor (“Trainspotting”), Christopher Lloyd (“Back To The Future”) and Jamie Foxx (“Django Unchained”) all appear and none of them are amusing. The Silverman character is particularly tiresome as she is a prostitute that has not slept with her boyfriend and the gags about her being covered in a certain substance get old really fast.

“A Million Ways To Die In The West” is painfully unfunny with its poor use of the Western setting, the gross gags and MacFarlane’s self-indulgent script. This is even worse than “Family Guy” and “Ted” and it is so long. If you are a big fan of MacFarlane and his shtick then maybe you will enjoy this film. I just find MacFarlane’ style to be really irritating and it seems like he has way too much creative control with nobody around him telling him how lacklustre a lot of his material is.