Best in Show

Pros: Terrific satire of the doggie world.
Cons: Despite the PG13 rating, this might not be suitable for most kids.

It's crass, it's political. It can also be funny and self-absorbed. No, not the government arena, the one at your local dog show. Often ridiculed, this can be a place of decit, backstabbing, and some shenanigans that you'd never assoicate with our...

Pros: Hilarious satire about the world of dog competitions
Cons: None

I’ve always been a cat person having shared my home with as many as five at one time, though the average felines living with us has usually been 2 or 3, therefore a dog has never even been a guest in this ole house...It’s not that I dislike dogs, ...

Pros: Christopher Guest (Princess Bride's Count Rugen) proves he's one of the smartest satirists in Hollywood
Cons: Some of the jokes and improv fall flat

When I was a mere soft-headed lad of pre-puberty, I was in love with a dog.

His name was Shane, he was a Chocolate Labrador Retriever and, to me, he represented everything good about life. My dog was a warm island in an increasingly-baffling...

Pros: Fred Willard, Jane Lynch, Larry Miller
Cons: Sense of humor too gentle for subject matter

Best In Show is a comedy about champion show dogs, and the humans who dote on them. Told in a documentary style, it tells the tale of one year in the lives of the owners of five dogs, and the owners' efforts to make their pets champions. For each...

Pros: Best in Show goes after mean-spirited people . . .
Cons: . . . in a mean-spirited way.

Philosopher Thomas Hobbes says that we laugh when we feel superior to something or someone. If that's true, then the laughter should absolutely never stop in Best in Show, Christopher Guest's scathing mockumentary on people who not only take...

Pros: opening scene
Cons: dislikable characters

Rated PG-13

(language and sex-related material)

Directed by Christopher Guest

Christopher Guest - Harlan Pepper

My Rating: F

Dog shows are easy to mock and extract humor out of. Just show...

Pros: Excellent comedic effort.
Cons: Distant at times.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s okay to make fun of people. There are, certainly, some rules to the people you can make fun of (or the sets of people you can make fun of), but surely there are some. That being said,...

Pros: it was less than 90 minutes long, there was no sticky film on the theatre floor
Cons: very few laughs, poor character development, minimal plot, SO many missed opportunities for humor

I must have walked into the wrong movie theatre. Yeah, that's it. Best In Show has gotten such great reviews, that I'm certain I must have seen some other movie. The movie that I saw was lousy.

The premise of the movie is simple. An...

Pros: Parker Posey is at her shrill, shrieking best; All the doggies are cool; The improv is hysterical
Cons: Several of the gags fall flat; Fred Willard is annoying.

You know the type; the people that talk nonsense to their dogs and treat them like small retarded children. The people that always refer to their animal as 'Mr. something' or something ending in 'IE'. (Mookie, Loopie, Crotchie) Those people who are so...

Pros: funniest movie I've possibly ever seen, including "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
Cons: it ended

This past weekend I had a chance to visit the movies again and I got to see a winner this time! I’ve had some lousy luck recently, and it was a pleasant surprise to see such an entertaining and relatively clean film.

So, what did I see? A...

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I remember seeing this movie when it first came out. I was aware of what a mockumentary is at the time, but I still wasn’t that interested. For those that don’t know, a mockumentary is a mock documentary. In this case, it’s a fictional account of ...

Pros: Funny and Interesting...
Cons: Main Characters are Depressing.

Christopher Guest (writer/actor/director of Waiting for Guffman) is back in theaters with another fictional documentary...and this time he's gone to the dogs, figuratively speaking, of course.

Best in Show focuses...

Pros: Good acting
Cons: Unengaging characters, poor script, dragging story line

Dogs are contenders for the most popular pet in the United States, as well as several other major countries. As the interest in dogs has grown, so also has the interest in dog shows. What was once reserved for the upper classes of the economic level has ...

Pros: Dog lovers will love it!
Cons: Cat lovers waiting for their own movie

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Christopher Guest is the KING of mockumentaries. He was one of the stars of the...

Pros: It ended well, I guess
Cons: I was bored, the jokes weren't funny, I wasted my money

The best acting in this movie was done by the dogs. There was a great deal of star power and yet no one shined. I immediately knew that I wouldn't like the movie because the actors began talking to the viewer. I have never really cared much for movies...

Pros: Funny, Decent - if understated - acting, Great idea
Cons: So tongue-in-cheek sometimes that it's slow, Some characters are painfully annoying

"Best In Show" has been on my list for some time, especially since the success of it has spawned two follow-up mockumentaries by Christopher Guest ("A Mighty Wind" and, even more recently, "For Your Consideration"). It also seems like since "Best In ...

Pros: Smart, clever, original concept, excellent performances and FUNNY!
Cons: Either you get it or you don't.

"Mockumentaries" are an under-appreciated genre of film. I'd imagine making one would be more difficult than making a regular comedy because you have to convey an atmosphere of reality while being satirical and sometimes all-out hysterical. That said I'd ...

Pros: Humorously shows the hubris of show-dog owners.
Cons: Fabulously funny, and sometimes fabulously mean-spirited.

Ever since I brought home The Cell (short on the high heels of Chuck & Buck), I have had a standing instruction to not get anything "weird or non-linear" from the video store. The DVD jacket for Best in Show looked innocent enough -- people...

Pros: Fred Willard
Cons: If Willard wasn’t on the screen, I wasn’t laughing.

When I was a kid, my parents would take me to Playland in Rye, New York. I have great memories of this little non-Six Flags amusement park. I remember the little coaster I went on with my brother, where if you survived it twice in a row without...

Pros: Lots of funny improv comedians doing what they do best
Cons: Christopher Guest doesn't write and direct more movies

Christopher Guest's latest improv-fest, "Best in Show," takes on the wonderful world of dog shows and comes away with a blue ribbon. While it probably doesn't scratch the surface of the humor of his previous films "This is Spinal...

Pros: hilarious plays-up on different genres of people, entertaining comedy
Cons: No real cons - it's just a comedy - accept it for what it is

Note:

Before you read my review, I'm going to tell you that I could write a lot more about this movie, but I'd rather not spoil it for the people who haven't seen it yet. After watching a movie, unless I write down all the details on...

Pros: Terrific comic performances, some big laughs
Cons: Lack of structure shows, 90-minute running time still seems a bit padded

In the beginning, there was This is Spinal Tap. With Rob Reiner polish, mind-numbing documentary interviews and a deftly comic principal cast – Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean – immersed in chiseled caricature roles. Then, in...

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Christopher Guest (who was never a member of Floopy) helms this wickedly funny comedy about Canine-Americans and the odd humans who love them.

Well, love is a strange word. It's quite apparent that the Fleck's love their Norwich Terrier...

Pros: Some good characters, Some funny scenes, Cute doggies
Cons: Some useless characts, Some lame scenes, Forgettable

Best In Show is a mock-umentary about a dog show. The movie is entertaining enough, I suppose, but it just wasn't quite suited to my tastes.

The Mayflower Dog Show, held in Philadelphia, is one of America's most prestigious dog shows....

Pros: Beautiful canines
Cons: Boring movie

This pseudo documentary/comedy, directed by Christopher Guest, who plays a part in this film himself, attempts to tell the story behind some real losers or should I say, "interesting individuals" who are possessed with showing their dogs in the Mayflower...

Pros: Fred Willard Tries To Save The Day
Cons: Poorly Thought Out In General

What is it that makes Best in Show so disappointing? Is it the fact that a huge cast possessing great talent (Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, etc.) can’t produce more than a few guffaws in the course of the 2 hour film?...

Pros: real documentary style, unrelentingly funny
Cons: a pretty easy target

Have you noticed how most comedies today are desperate? They stop just short of getting on their hands and knees and begging you to laugh and pleading with you to love them. I'm sure that if they could add a sitcom laugh track to tell us when to laugh,...

Pros: Very Funny, very well acted...great casting
Cons: A bit stereotypical....but in a funny way?

I went to see Best in Show this past weekend because there really wasn't much else that I was excited to see. I had heard from people who had seen the preview that it was a funny movie and I took their word on it and went to see the movie. Boy...I was...

Pros: The improvising cast is hilarious.
Cons: Though good in its own way, the film cannot compare to Waiting for Guffman.

(Dir: Christopher Guest, Starring Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Michael Hitchcock, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, Jim Piddock, Bob Balaban, Don Lake, Patrick Cranshaw,...

Pros: hysterical writing and acting all around
Cons: too damned short!!

There are some movie directors I totally trust, and I don't have to know what the movie is about, I don't have to know who is in it, I don't have to know what its budget was. I know that they will give me entertainment for my five dollars(I always try to...

Pros: A crowd-pleaser - very, very funny
Cons: Some people don't find mockumentaries amusing.

There's something about dog shows that's terribly amusing. I know those who show off their purebreds take them very, very seriously, but for onlookers, like Christopher Guest, the possibilities for comedy are endless. In fact, sanity goes to the...

Pros: funny and unlike any other film in the theaters; great actors
Cons: will not appeal to fans of more traditional movie fare

"Best in Show" is not a movie that the masses will enjoy. However, if you've ever been to a dog show… if you've ever met someone who went to dog shows… if you or someone you know has the tendency to take their dog ownership way too serious… if...

Pros: Very funny characters, 'mockumentary' is interesting
Cons: None.

There is a small, growing sub-genre of film that Writer-Director Christopher Guest is single-handedly contributing to. The mockumentary. Guest was one of the writers of ‘This Is Spinal Tap”, a film that is currently enjoying another wave of publicity. He...

Pros: A campy comedy.
Cons: Slow, dim-witted, dumb, awful.

We view the major characters in their home settings, preparing to take their dogs to a classy dog show. Figuring it has to get better, we keep watching. Half way through the show we decide to go ahead and watch it to the end thinking, we paid for it, we...

Pros: Hilarious characters, careful attention to detail
Cons: Guest takes too long between productions

I have loved Christopher Guest's work since I was fourteen and watched him as a regular on Saturday Night Live. Taped segments like the male synchronized swimmers sketch rejuvenated the show, which had been spotty since the golden early days of...

Pros: intelligent humor, hilariously satirical
Cons: requires a slight relatibility to the subject matter

Sometimes, the most entertaining things come not from our minds or imagination, but from simple observance and recantation of what we see around us every day. Slice of life movies, those that hold the magnifying glass up to a certain aspect of society...

Pros: Acting is superb, story is realistic but offbeat
Cons: Dry humor may not be for everyone

On September 29th, Best of Show, the hilarious new comedy about dogs from Castle Rock Entertainment, was released in roughly 14 theatres across the country. Unfortunately, my small, Midwestern town was not one of them. The next week, it was...

Pros: Funny movie about dogs and their owners
Cons: Subtle humor, annoying in parts

If you go to see Best in Show for its in your face humor, forget it. This "mockumentary" about several couples and others participating in a dog show is funny. It's not often laugh out loud funny, though. It's more something that will make you...

Pros: Hilarious. Great Characters.
Cons: It's only 90 minutes.

The dog show set clearly deserves mockery. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog proved that to us on Conan O'Brien's show. Now Christopher Guest, the reigning king of the mockumentary form, manages to give insight into the world of dog shows and deliver a...

Pros: Nothing else like it in theaters
Cons: Veers a bit unsteadily between documentary and standard cinema

Christopher Guest likes to make movies. And he's happiest when he's aping the documentary style and fusing it with a Marx Brothers sensibility!

Best In Show is his long-awaited follow up to Waiting for Guffman. Having honed his...

Pros: great improvisational acting
Cons: The Parker Posey/Michael Hitchcock portions

Christopher Guest’s new faux-documentary is although not as consistently uproarious as his previous mock piece, Waiting For Guffman, it will still keep you laughing and smiling, sometimes ear to ear. These two films, Guffman and Best in Show offer up...

Pros: Hilarious and fun... takes some real potshots at the AKC clowns and their puppy pageants!
Cons: Not quite up to Waiting for Guffman

Christopher Guest has made a career of the satirical "documentary" beginning with This Is Spinal Tapp and continuing on to the tour de force Waiting for Guffman. Best In Show falls somewhere in between.

Eugene Levy,...

Pros: Writing. Performances.
Cons: None

Norman has had another bout with the bottle and, to top things off, tripped over one of my false eyelashes that I had carelessly left on the bathroom floor and cracked several ribs against the side of the bidet. He has been a good deal of pain the last...

Pros: Great characters
Cons: Too short at 90 minutes!

Forget "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Instead, think of "Who Let the Zany Owners who Own the Dogs Out?" Then, you'll be in the right mindset for "Best of Show." There are seldom movies that cause me to laugh out loud, even in...

Pros: Somewhat funny, a few brilliant characters
Cons: Somewhat unfunny, bland, extremely repetitive

Harlan Pepper (Christopher Guest) is preparing his bloodhound to sniff out the faults in his fellow canine competitors. Gerry and Cookie Fleck (Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara) are getting their terrier ready for battle. Sheri Ann Ward Cabot (Jennifer...

Pros: Very funny, steady pace, keeps you guessing
Cons: Young kids might have questions

With comedic greats like Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, how could "Best In Show" go wrong? It didn't! Personally, I don't laugh out loud very often at movies, but I did at this one.

This wonderful spoof is a hilarious marriage of...

Pros: great cast and plenty of laughs
Cons: nothing major

This latest directorial effort from Christopher Guest, who also brought us (and acted in) Waiting for Guffman, is another funny, freewheeling (much is apparently improvised) parody. This time the target is dog shows. While it isn’t quite as good as...

Pros: very very funny
Cons: don't care who wins

When you go to see Best in Show (and you should definitely see it), make sure you pick a theatre that plays the movie LOUD. Why? Two reasons:
(1) expect the theatre to be packed with hysterically laughing people; (2) [not unrelated to the first]...

Pros: Hilarious deadpan humor.
Cons: This is the third mockumentary. Not quite as fresh as it used to be.

To the casual observer, dog shows seem pretty silly, but to those involved, it's vitally important. As the third subject for mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest (THIS IS SPINAL TAP, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN) the dog world proves to be fertile ground)....

Pros: hilarious, non- predictable, short
Cons: no depth, but who cares?

I wasn't sure if I wanted to see this movie at first as I have always thought dog shows are ridiculous, pretentious, and exploit animals, but I really enjoyed this movie.

There are laughs from the beginning to the end as we follow a wide...

Pros: Awesome Performances. Continuous Laughter. Creative Genius.
Cons: None!

I love this movie.

Christopher Guest, director and co-writer with Eugene Levy, once again outdoes himself. If you are not familiar with his movies (i.e. Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap...) this is a great one to start. Guest is a...

Pros: very good cast, plot, setting
Cons: hard to find any

BEST IN SHOW takes its title from the final and ultimate prize at a kennel club annual competition. First there is the prize for Best in Breed - which toy poodle is prettier than all the other toy poodles, then there's Best in Group - is this...

Pros: Humor, Dogs, and a show, who could ask for more?
Cons: too short

Why do I love my dog? Probably for the same reason these people love their dogs too much. Anyone who has a beloved four-legged friend should definitely see this film. I call it a film because is neither a movie nor a documentary for real.

The...

Pros: FUNNIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!
Cons: NO CAR CHASES, EXPLOSIONS, MARTIAL ARTS, KICKS IN THE GROIN....

"It is the best of drugs. It is the worst of drugs." If Chuck Dickens had ever written a novel about cocaine, instead of wasting his time on silly stuff like the French Revolution, it might very well have begun in this way.

I never...

Pros: parker posey, and newcomers steal the scenes
Cons: improv seems lazy and is annoying

I must begin with saying that I am a huge fan of mockumentaries. I loved even,
"Drop Dead Gorgeous" with Kirsten Dunst. I'm an even bigger fan of Christopher
Guest. I consider him the master of comic improv. His classic performance as
...

Pros: .
Cons: .

The quieter strokes furnish the noisiest laughs in "Best in Show," the new Christopher Guest mockumentary that gives the fru-fru subculture of dog shows the satirical razzing small-town community theater endured in Guest's uproarious...

Pros: The funniest movie of the year
Cons: Christopher Guest doesn't make movies often enough

I can’t remember the last time I’ve broke into tears after fully loosing my composure in theaters, not since Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) have I laughed so consistently. The film forces a giant smile one your face and doesn’t let up...

Pros: Great acting, funny dialogue
Cons: What cons?

this film tickled my comedic tastebuds by addeing something new to an old idea. Improv comedy at it's finest can be found at its best in the pooch contest film. Before we get totally nuts, let's look at the plot...

This entire movie is hot...

Pros: a pleasant little film
Cons: not really worth the full ticket price

I went to see "Best In Show" because I am an animal lover and I heard
a lot of good things about this movie. I found "Best In Show" to be a
pretty nice little flick with a few chuckles in it but there was nothing
...

Pros: Maybe - just maybe - Fred Willard.
Cons: This is supposed to be a comedy? I didn't laugh once.

BEST IN SHOW purportedly tells the story of a group of dog fanciers who enter their dogs in a dog show. The problem is that I wasn't convinced by the script that this was the story.

Told in a stream-of-consciousness fashion similar to that...

Pros: At times hilarious, and characters that are deliciously ridiculous.
Cons: Mean spirited in mocking some seriously disturbed people who make dogs their whole world.

Best in Show is a scathing attack against, of all people, Dog Show freaks. This movie has generally the same appeal as the Jerry Springer show, that is that you feel generally superior to everyone in the film. The film follows several sets of...

Pros: VERY funny improv performances
Cons: 'Mockumentary' format is not for everyone

This movie doesn't quite go to 'eleven', but those enjoyed the 'mockumentary' format that 'This is Spinal Tap' pioneered will be ready for 'Best in Show'. Those who didn't 'get' 'Spinal Tap' would probably be better off two screens over watching that new...

Pros: Highly Recommended movie. Laughed the whole time
Cons: none

Best in show is just that. One of the best shows of the year by far. I am not saying that this movie is going to win best picture come Oscar day, but I do think that it is a definite must see.

Here is a little snapshot of what to...

Pros: Good Acting , Great looking dogs. Loved the bloodhound.
Cons: The rating.

My daughter and I were watching TV and a commercial filled the screen with cute scenes of dogs and and comedian commentator and more dogs. Did we enjoy the movie? NO! The movie received to low a rating: PG-13. The advertisements were depicting a...

Pros: Fantastic character acting, Hilariously funny in a quirky way
Cons: It's not Waiting for Guffman

Being an enormous fan of Christopher's Guest's masterpiece Waiting For Guffman, I was psyched to discover Guest's creative talents being used once again for Best In Show. Much like Guffman (which pokes fun at the characters involved in...

Pros: very funny, unique
Cons: Not much plot

Any fan of Christopher Guest or of mock-umentries should not be disappointed by this film. Filled with believable acting, you believe that these crazy dog owners are real. What makes the movie even funnier is that you know there are really people out...

Pros: Lots of laughs, good alternative to 'normal' movies.
Cons: Some unpleasant moments difficult to watch.

Boy am I glad that I'm not a show dog kinf of person. I would hate to have to live my life vicariously through the dogs. Altho, my life would be funny to watch.

In case you haven't noticed, Best in Show is Christopher Guest's mockumentary...

Pros: Harlan Pepper character.
Cons: The rest of the characters and script.

While I was watching this I thought, this movie looks like a clone of Spinal Tap about a dog show. Little did I know the director are one and the same until I was enlightened by the other epinioners around here. None the less, I could smell the scent of...

Pros: Improvised dialogue and performances results in comic gold.
Cons: It's a little too light (and over too quick)

Considering the cult status of This is Spinal Tap (1984) and critical acclaim of Waiting for Guffman (1997), it's hardly a surprise that Christopher Guest (star of Tap, writer/star of Guffman) has chosen to take the mockumentary route once again. This...

Pros: funny, witty, enjoyable
Cons: had some slow points

Ok I have to admit, when I first saw a preview of this movie, I had absolutely no desire to see it. It looked very stupid, but then I heard some critics give it rave reviews, and while I don't usually listen to what the critics have to say, I thought...

Pros: Great cast, funny script, believable characters
Cons: Some running jokes are taken too far

Best in Show is a mock documentary about participants in the Mayflower dog show in Philadelphia. The documentary crew follows the contestants on their journeys, allowing us the pleasure of observing a funny, diverse and at times absurd cast of...

Pros: Parker Posey!, A few Witty lines.
Cons: The Plot is very plain and this could easily have been a pbs documentary.

Okay, The Plot of the movie is plain and simple...A dog show. The film is semi documentary, Think "Drop Dead Gorgeous"...You get introduced to the dogs and their owner which range from a gay couple with a shizu to a redneck fishman from north carolina...

Pros: Lots of funny lines
Cons: If you don't like satire, this one isn't for you.

As soon as I got home from Best in Show, I had a long talk with my dogs about their ambitions in life . . . and mine! They have decided they do not want to act and therefore will never make me rich. Oh well.

If you've ever had such thoughts...

Pros: A few good one liners.
Cons: Utterly predictable and safe in both form and content.

This film takes the form of a mock documentary about a regional dog show, following several of the contestants as they approach they show and towards the competition finale itself. It feels very similar to Spinal Tap, another mockumentary in which...

Pros: consistently funny
Cons: unnecessary sexual humor

i was prompted to see the movie after reading an article about Christopher Guest in a recent issue of VANITY FAIR. Unlike most modern comedies which are really romantic melodramas, BEST IN SHOW is an unsentimental satire. The plot revolves around the...

Pros: dogs are cute, the guy with 2 left feet
Cons: the movie

Another movie I was looking forward to watching that fell flat. It's almost like watching home movies. It follows several couples getting ready to compete in the Mayflower dog show. It's filmed like a home movie with interviews. The interviews are kind...

Pros: Great humor
Cons: Not a huge storyline

This movie isn't your typical plot/story line movie. It's more of a narration of several characters, and follows many of them all the way through. There are no HUGE names here, but great performances by all. If you like "black comedy," you...

Pros: a lot of fun for pet owners
Cons: would have liked to have seen more dogs

This is a pretty funny movie that focuses on the people that enter their pets into a dog show rather than the dogs themselves.
It basically shows how ridiculous people are and can be about their dogs.

The cast is mainly made up of actors...

Pros: Hillarious
Cons: Gay Stereotypes

Sometimes I can be a little suspicious of movies that are only entertainment and nothing more. This is one of those movies. that having been said, it's great. The plot is simple the script is character driven, and it works wonderfully.

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Pros: Funny, silly
Cons: Wanted more about the dogs

The Best in Show is a mockumentary, which is a movie masquerading as a documentary. "Best" purportedly takes us behind the scenes preparation for a dog show in Philadelphia. It is difficult to explain a mockumentary. Think of an actor...

Pros: Christopher Guest is a genius!
Cons: Not many people appreciate the mockumentary format.

An auspicious beginning to the Fall Movie Season! Christopher Guest does it again with Best In Show. "Waiting for Guffman" was a brilliant take of the people involved in community theater, and "Best In Show" is a brilliant,...

Pros: laugh-out-loud funny
Cons: none

Any movie with Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman) is a howler and this one is no exception.

I haven't seen this kind of fine ensemble casting since the glory days of Robert Altman. These are some of the finest comic actors working...

Pros: FUNNY!
Cons: Grows on you.

The first time I saw Best in Show was when my mother begged me to watch it. She thought that it was ...

Pros: funny, cool dogs, gay humor
Cons: not that funny, slow, stereotypes

I would describe this movie as adequately funny. It's a great idea (thank god it got made before we had to live through a movie of the SNL "Dog Show" skit), and some of the characters are hysterical and at least to me, somewhat familiar. The...

Pros: VERY FUNNY, original, entertaining
Cons: odd humor, no special effects

This has to be the funniest movie I have ever seen. It is based on about five diffrnt types of people, who train there dogs and bring them to a dog show. The whole time, you get to see that your not the only one who talks like that to there dogs!...

Pros: wacky
Cons: too wacky

Are you one of those people that finds yourself watching too much cable TV and even find the dog show entertaining? If so then this is the movie for you - it gives the back story behind all those goofy dog owners and what is up with the announcers. We...

Pros: Hysterical, smart, unique
Cons: Long boring outtakes section of DVD

This is a mockumentary of epic proportions. This is a terrific, Spinal Tap-type movie of a crazy world. It takes on the purebred dog show circuit and pokes fun at the whole thing.
Each of the handful of characters and character sets are terrific....

Pros: A really funny movie
Cons: It was'nt a good plot , but it was funny

Now, is this movie actually better than "Waiting for Guffman"? Mmmm, no. As that group of characters built
toward something together, it had more punch in the end, rather than watching the new bunch take turns
...

Pros: Hilarious satire of the dog show world that is a on the mark.
Cons: could have been fleshed out more and showed some positives

A great comedy in it's own right, but if you know anything about dog shows you will be rolling on the floor. While some of the stereotypes are a bit over the top they are right on a lot of the handlers/owners in the show world. If you have ever...

Pros: humorous, entertaining
Cons: a little cliche at times

This movie will keep you entertained form beginning to end.
It's a light-hearted comedy that was written, produced and directed by Christopher Guest, who also produced Waiting for Guffman.
The main theme is a pseudo-documentary on people who...

Pros: None that I can think of.
Cons: Can not follow story line, and monotone most of the time. NOT VERY GOOD!!!

When we rented Best in show, we were expecting to laugh... we did but not because the show was funny, more because it was so stupid. I have never seen a more stupid movie. The story line varied between like 10 different people, all of whom are in the...

Pros: If you liked Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!
Cons: If you are actually very serious about dog shows....stay away.

I open by saying this movie is not for everyone. People who are into dog shows will most definitely hate it (this is what I have noticed anyway). However, if you are a fan of Christopher Guest's movies, such as "Spinal Tap" and "Waiting for Guffman,"...

Pros: funny story and characters
Cons: what cons? I can't think of any.

This would be the best comedy film of the year. The humor and energy in this mockumentary from director/co-star Christopher Guest is more amazing when the viewer realizes it was done by its amazing cast. Guest and Eugene Levy came up with the plot for...

Pros: Funny, well acted, cute dogs
Cons: ending a little weak

I recently went and saw "Best in Show" on a date, and although a comedy about dog shows might not sound like prime date material, i have to say that i couldn't have enjoyed myself more! The team that brought us "Waiting for Guffman"...

Pros: Fast paced, never a dull moment
Cons: Announcer was a little over the top

The format of this movie was very different from what I expected and from most movies I have seen. Instead of a flowing story line that followed people as they interacted with each other, none of the characters ever really interacted with each other at...

Pros: original concept, extremely funny, great acting
Cons: no cons!

Best in Show is a hilarious fake documentary about the world of dog shows and the dog owners. The film follows the daily lives of the dog owners as they are preparing to go to the dog show. My favorite is the neurotic yuppie couple and their...

Pros: Some comedy is really funny
Cons: Some comedy isn't funny at all

People that are obsessed with their dogs. Do I need say more. The subject in itself is hilarious and dog-shows are funny things just themselves. A whole audience of people on the edge of their seat, waiting to see whole will be the best dog. That is...

Pros: Funny and Fred Willard steals the movie
Cons: Some of the characters are too over the top

You couldn't pay me to attend a real dog show but I sure got my money's worth watching this funny spoof of dog shows.

I liked Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman so I decided to give this movie a try. Although not as satisfying as...

Pros: The dogs were cute is the best that I could say.
Cons: Incredibly offensive and not at all funny.

"Best in Show" has got to be one of the all time worst movies that I have ever rented. People had told me that it was hilarious, and I can't for the life of me figure out why!

It was a very odd style of a movie, in that it appeared to be as...

Pros: Some funny moments and characters, clever premise
Cons: Should have been developed more completely

This review is one of those guilty things you do -- sort of like an apology. I didn't like this movie, but I feel bad about it.

Aren't I sophisticated enough to laugh at the gay men and women. To laugh at "B*tch" magazine and crude penis...

Pros: movie keeps your interest going
Cons: none that i can think of

this mockumentry about a dog show and what goes on there is one of the funniest movies i have seen in a while.
this movie will keep you laughing from begining to end with its quick wit and dry humor.
in fact i think its so good i have seen it...

Pros: Extremely funny!
Cons: I couldn't beleive it was over when it ended, too bad.

This is by far one of the funniest movies out there. I loved it. The characters were so rich, and the acting was superb. Most of the movie acting was improve and the reality of the characters made me feel like this was a real documentary. Good stuff....

Pros: funny
Cons: sexual undertones may be unsuitable for younger viewers

I am a dog owner and wanted to see a funny movie. Even if you don't like dogs, you will love this film. It is a first rate 'documentary' about dog owners and dog shows. The humor is good for almost everyone, although there may be a lot of explaining...

Pros: Funny characters, and a pretty biting satire
Cons: No real plot, unrealistic characters (I hope).

Best in Show is a satire of dog shows and the people who participate in them. Even though it is completely fictional, much of it is presented as if it was a documentary. However, some parts go much deeper than a real documentary would go, making the...

Pros: It had a short theater run.
Cons: It was released on DVD and video.

If you haven't seen it, be very glad. I saw the DVD last night and I am thankful that I didn't waste a theater trip on this canine woofer.

The humor in this movie is a direct descendant of 1970's Mad magazines except that Mad had better writers. Talk about out of touch. These guys spend all their energy pounding feeble stereotype character jokes from 30 years ago combined with camera aware technique that makes you want to suspend the painful disbelief that you are actually watching this junk (are the writers getting on a bit, they hate everyone including the audience?)

Apparently there was little direction and the actors ad libbed a lot. Boy does it show. Eugene Levy is particularly abysmal amongst a bestial herd of lame or confused actors. His predictable loser character is as flat as a pancake. Considering he co-wrote this thing, he has no excuse for his pathetic delivery, it just looks like he is constantly improvising.

A far better satirical movie would have been one that documented these clowns actually making this movie.