Best in Show

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...