Three cowboy movie stars from the silent era are fired when one of their movies bombs. They then accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
[Three Amigos is] a goofy delight. It's like a cross between a big-budget Three Stooges movie and a Hope-Crosby road picture, with dozens of old cowpoke gags thrown in to spice up the brew.
Spoofy send up of Western films is OK for mature tweens.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
April 25, 2014
The premise is cute, the characters are endearing, and the wackiness of their predicament in the desert is almost enough to carry the film past dry spells of laughlessness. But the dry spells are frequent.
