"A big hit at its Comic-Con world premiere, the Universal release looks primed to round up box-office gold with its target audience," he adds. "As the first of undoubtedly a bunch of copycat genre mashups, some of which are bound to be horrendous, Cowboys & Aliens is a solid success. For a tentpole Comic-Con movie, this one devotes a gratifying amount of time to character and achieves most of its success because Favreau has intelligently cast his film and let his actors do their thing." San Francisco Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle was also a fan of the film (and especially Favreau), calling the cowboy-alien plot "a gimmick that could easily have exhausted itself after 20 minutes, but director Favreau, a team of screenwriters and some well-cast actors keep it alive, and the result is a crowd-pleasing summer movie with more wit than most," he writes. Comic-Con 2011: THR's Complete Coverage
"The more you know Westerns, the more you'll enjoy Cowboys & Aliens. Every Western cliche is pumped up and blown out, not only the cliches of story but of character, costume and set design," adds LaSalle. "But the movie's most inexhaustible source of delight is Harrison Ford as a cranky old entrepreneur in an Indiana Jones hat." He also says of Favreau: "Cowboys & Aliens gets better as it goes along and benefits from a director with a solid command of tone. The actors may know they're in a comedy, but the characters certainly don't." Kenneth Turan at the Los Angeles Times had a harsher review. "It's hard to say what is most depressing about Cowboys & Aliens -- the film itself, or the fact that this was the best movie a posse of major Hollywood players could come up with," he writes.
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