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Summary: Community Theatre Buffs -- Look No Further!
Review: This is a MUST SEE for anyone who's ever been involved with community theatre! (Having directed a lot of theatre, I found the audition scenes especially hilarious! I've seen those exact same people!) One of my favorites of all time!
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Summary: Monty Python hits small-town America
Review: If you like dry, intelligent comedy, Waiting for Guffman is your kind of martini. With Pythonian wit and style, actor/director Christopher Guest uses the mockumentary as a device to chronicle the coming together of a big city wanna-be theater director, with a motley crew of small town wanna-be actors. All share a common delusion: that they're the cutting edge of theatre. The results is a hilarious, first class gem of an art film. Though not a film for the masses, WFG is surely destined to become a cult favorite.
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Summary: I immediately rewound it and watched it again!
Review: There are 119 customer reviews as of now, so there's little or no point to me writing this, except to reiterate that everyone, EVERYONE should see this movie. It is one of the funniest, most quotable, most memorable movies ever made. I adore it. The writing, the acting, the directing, cause me to laugh out loud every time I see it (I've probably seen it twenty times, which for me is a lot). This movie is awesome, and I love it, you should see it. If you want to make it a double bill, get "Noises Off," as well. Dang, I love this movie.
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Summary: Nothing ever happens in Blaine!
Review: Where to start? This is just a classic. A very funny movie, complete with an all-star cast. Christopher Guest graduates from his Spinal Tap days, in this movie playing a high school drama teacher who thinks that since he's from New York he's "all that." Eugene Levy has a role reminiscient of his SCTV days, and Parker Posey continues to prove that she is one of the better Indie actors these days. In the genre of "Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman" gives a hilarious view of quirky midwestern life in a small town. Being from one myself, the stereotypes are gut-bustingly accurate (in a tasteful way). If you like Jim Carey type of humor, this isn't the movie for you. It's much more sophistocated and subtle. If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "why do small-town people act that way?" . . . you'll want to see this. Pure Hilarity!
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Summary: "Waiting For Guffman" Well Worth Waiting For
Review: What "Spinal Tap" did for heavy metal, "Waiting for Guffman" does for Middle America. Blaine, Missouri is celebrating the 150 year anniversary of its accidental founding, and the residents of the homely little town prove as dimwitted as their ancestors. Christopher Guest, past master of the mockumentary, plays an erstwhile Broadway director named Corky with such deadpan precision as to make his precious few moments on screen some of the funniest in film. Indie queen Parker Posey turns up as a Dairy Queen worker-cum-dancer, while a host of lesser stars portray the dumb-yet-wholesome cast of the musical. If the "Stonehenge" scene in "Spinal Tap" still makes you howl, imagine an entire movie built around cheesy staging and terrible music. Grab this movie now---God only knows what Blaine's bicentennial will be like.
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Summary: Your'e not wrong!
Review: 'ell 'ole- A nod to the second funniest film ever, This is Spinal Tap. Actually the two finest films of all time regardless of genre. It is hard to pick out favorite lines but "dances w/ Stumpy is way up there! Also I have never seen deer hooves like that either! Incomparable, umbelievably funny and totally indispensable viewing. There are 5 letters in Blaine. I plan on owning a theatre and Waiting for Guffman will be my midnite movie for the ages - even if I am the only one watching!
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Summary: m a s t e r p i e c e
Review: Having been raised in a tiny Midwestern town and then exposed to amateur theatre folks in college, I find this film gem hitting the mark so dead-on that it's scary. Like SPINAL TAP, a wonderful improv-enhanced script played hilariously by an unforgettable cast and then geniusly edited into a masterpiece of docu-comedy. Can't wait for the DVD so I'll actually own this . . .
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Summary: Making fun of simple people...
Review: The cast is amazing. You will laugh, you will cry, you will pity all of these miserable and dumb characters... the humor relies a little too much on making fun of simple people, but I guess it works. Not quite as brilliant as "This is Spinal Tap." Not even close. Still, it is definitely worthwhile.
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Summary: Sweeping Hats
Review: A few years ago, I was pretty bummed out over losing at a facist academic competition that shall remain nameless. I needed to see something to lift my spirits. It just so happened that Guffman was showing in the local second-run art theater. Sweet Jesus! That was the ticket. Simply the funniest movie I've ever seen in a theater. I about literally injured myself. Every performance is a gem, every line is quotable ("Every Sunday between four and five, I have no feeling in my buttocks"). I have made it a personal mission of mine to force everyone I know to watch this movie, and without fail, everyone has loved it. A must see, possibly the funniest movie of the 90s. You are only hurting yourself by depriving yourself of this movie. Personally, I think it's funnier than "Spinal Tap."
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Summary: Well, we've got our Scrabble Club
Review: I can't even express how much I love this movie. My mom and I watch it constantly. Let's see, best parts that no one else has mentioned yet: "we're chomping at the bit from our end to get it out there." "I'd like to go to New York, and meet some interesting guys, and you know, watch TV." "When we do scene studies at home...." "I certainly know how the Kennedys feel (being a Fabin)." Oh, my god. I have to run and watch it again right now.
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