YMMV / ¡Three Amigos!

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The film flopped despite having popular actors (Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short) and directed by a respectable director (John Landis) as it has a ridiculous mishmash of concepts that don't quite fit together. It is a comedy, yet has its very serious moments (for example, El Guapo burning down Santo Poco and presumably killing many of its inhabitants), and its comedy ranges from rather grounded The Three Stooges style hijinks to farcical fantasy absurdity (the "Blue Shadows" segment, as well as the Singing Bush and the Invisible Swordsman) to the point where audiences have no clue what is what. (It did gain a bit of cult status over time, however, and the premise was solid enough to support another classic comedy film 13 years later)
• Awesome Music: Randy Newman's three songs are incredibly hilarious and somewhat touching, specifically "Blue Shadows".
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: A very long one that starts at the camp scene and ends with the death of the Invisible Swordsman. In the middle of this is another nested BLAM: the "Blue Shadows" musical number sang to Ned so he won't be afraid of the desert while their horses sing back up vocals and at the end of the song a turtle says "Goodnight, Ned!". For a while the movie seems to be confused as to whether it should have a realistic setting or something out of a Zucker Brothers movie. Tellingly, some TV prints cut out the entirety of this sequence, going straight from the Amigos riding off from the village to them arriving at El Guapo's mission after the commercial break; these cuts skip a few good gags, but the plot isn't affected one tiny bit.
• Memetic Mutation: The "plethora" conversation.
• Retroactive Recognition: Jefe is better known as Manny Calavera now.

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