Films like Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons.

Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle western / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Lucky Luke: Daisy Town (1971) poster
1. Lucky Luke: Daisy Town1971

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Asterix in Britain (1986) poster
2. Asterix in Britain1986

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976) poster
3. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix1976

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Asterix Versus Caesar (1985) poster
4. Asterix Versus Caesar1985

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Asterix the Gaul (1967) poster
5. Asterix the Gaul1967

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Asterix and Cleopatra (1968) poster
6. Asterix and Cleopatra1968

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) poster
7. Rock 'n' Roll High School1979

Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Weird Science (1985) poster
8. Weird Science1985

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) poster
9. Asterix and the Big Fight1989

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Urusei Yatsura: Only You (1983) poster
10. Urusei Yatsura: Only You1983

Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976) poster
11. The Smurfs and the Magic Flute1976

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

King of Beggars (1992) poster
12. King of Beggars1992

Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons’s neighbours — where are yours?

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