Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure

Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure (French: Tous à l'Ouest: Une Aventure de Lucky Luke) is a 2007 French animated western action-adventure comedy film directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and written by Marie and Jean-François Henry. Based on the Franco-Belgian comic series of the same name, the film was produced by Xilam, France 3 Cinéma, Pathé, Dargaud Média and Lucky Comics, and was released theatrically in France by Alliance Vivafilm on December 5, 2007.

Plot

In New York City 1880, the Dalton brothers (Joe, Jack, William and Averell) escape from a court trial regarding the Daltons' bank salesman cousin disgracing their name and plunder several banks across New York while Lucky Luke goes and hunts for them. Upon placing their loot of stolen cash in an empty wagon at Central Park, New York and attempting to blend in with the crowd in order to avoid detection from the police, Averell unwittingly blows their cover in front of the police, resulting in a long police chase across New York.

After evading the police, the Daltons return to Central Park to retrieve their loot only to find more wagons with immigrants who are going to California. Lucky Luke then arrives to stop the Daltons when one of the Europeans of the caravan exposes their problem to them: they have 80 days to go to California and to take possession of their land if not the developer, a crook named Crook having put 12 caravans in danger so that they do not arrive in California with his partner Bartleby, keeps the money paid in advance without the sale being made. With that in mind, Lucky Luke wants to take the safe route to California, but since the immigrants got 80 days to get there and the safe route would take about 6 months he decides to take them through the unsafe route.

Among the other immigrants headed for California include a Chinese chef couple, a teacher with unruly children named Miss Littletown, a trash-talking driver for a pack of mules that transport the Daltons, a barber, etc. Along the way, Crook and Bartleby sow traps to prevent the caravan from going to California, but to no avail. Later, Lucky Luke and the caravans stop at a small town called Hole Gutch where they pick up some new immigrants who also want to go to California.

When they arrive in California they take possession of their land and Crook is captured. Meanwhile, the Daltons flee with their stock found by Averell and hidden in their balls in an abandoned gold mine. A chase follows in the form of a roller coaster between the settlers who were promised money and the Daltons. Finally, all of them leave the mine, the Daltons are defeated and a mega explosion caused by a dynamite of Crook reported by Rantanplan allows the settlers to discover gold under the sold lands. The film ends with the Daltons, Crook and Bartleby being tied up and sent to justice by Lucky Luke into the sunset.

Cast

External links

• Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke on IMDb