Lucky Luke series review: Disney+ rides into the sunset – Unfortunately without a plan

Our verdict: Dusty, dirty, indecisive – Why the new live-action series lacks the charm of comics

Kino Fans

March 26, 2026

The Western series "Lucky Luke" started on Disney+ on March 23. Here's our review of the series. 

A tribute to Morris and Goscinny can be read at the beginning of the new live-action series LUCKY LUKE. This is probably meant to refute any criticism, because the series doesn't even bother to adapt a few of the original comic book stories, but does its own thing, although you can never say for sure whether the show is supposed to be serious or humorous – in the end, it's none of those things.

Lucky Luke: Plot – Snake Bites and Memory Loss

Lucky Luke is supposed to face a duel, but his problem is that a snake has bitten him in the hand. He can no longer pull so fast, but receives help from a girl who in turn needs his help. Because it is looking for its mother, whom Luke knew a long time ago.

However, the search is anything but easy. Joe Dalton's help is also needed, but he suffers from amnesia. And then there is Billy the Kid, who is now an adult and is no longer recognized by anyone ...

Lucky Luke: A Critique – A Multiverse Experiment That Fails

This vest is dirty, Luke is too. You might think you're in an Italo Western, which fits, it was also shot in Almeria, Spain, where many European Westerns were made. There is also blood and so the feeling arises that this probably wants to be a serious version of Lucky Luke. But then there is puns again, which sometimes work more, sometimes less, and interludes that go in the direction of slapstick. In the end, you never know exactly what this series actually wants to be, and it seems as if it doesn't know that either.

Yes, elements of the comics are there, but in view of the unoriginal story, you have to ask yourself why the creators didn't just adapt a few of the comic classics. That could have been appealing, but above all funny, and in a multi-layered way.

As it is, however, the series presents itself as a kind of multiverse version of LUCKY LUKE. What happens when people are at work who try to reinvent the formula by hook or by crook. Basically, the new series does wrong what the other live-action versions didn't get wrong either – to do justice to the comic original.

 Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8_ipfMNVO4