RIDE 'EM COWBOY (1942) - June 19, 2009
A decent Abbott and Costello film, which finds the two -- after a wacky chain of events -- working as cowboys on a ranch. The problem with this movie (and every Abbott and Costello film up to this point) is that the duo essentially share an equal amount of screentime with other characters (in this case, involving a romance with a writer of cowboy fiction who doesn't actually know anything about being a cowboy); there are also several songs which have nothing to do with the plot of the film and which seriously hurt the movie's pacing (everything essentially stops so that these songs can be performed). However, pretty much everything with Abbott and Costello is quite good, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. **1/2
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