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Summary: One of the Funniest Films I've seen in a long time!!
Review: This was a surprizingly hilarious movie. We rented the DVD on a whim, neither my husband nor myself had ever heard of this movie, and we are very glad we did! It is fantastic! It is done as a sort of "mockumentary" and we were reminded of another great film "Vernon, Florida", where it's just takes of people just talking to the camera until something interesting is said. The cast of people who make up the bizarre world of dog shows is believable in its' exageration and bizareness.The DVD has a selection of deleted scenes that is almost as long as the movie!! Some I could see why they should be deleted, but others I think should have been left in (i.e., the beachball scene!!!) You find yourself cheering for all of the dogs, and are hard pressed to choose one to be Best in Show. The cast is fantastic, from the elegant hotel manager to the obnoxious announcer! You want to give valium to that stressed out lawyer couple and you wonder what Cookie Fleck saw in her husband (Eugene Levy) to make her give up her life as a "party-girl". This movie does best with all the improvisation, you can't script this type of dialogue and make it believable! Run, don't walk, but Run and rent or buy this today! A great film!
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Summary: You will howl.
Review: Definitely view this on DVD. The outtakes, especially of Christopher Guest, are not to be missed...especially the beachball scene!
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Summary: A rollercoaster ride I threw up on and rode again!
Review: This movie is best viewed, I believe, while doing yoga. I have found that this opens the soul up and invites the images in. In the past there have been movies which, you know, made me cry, but none that made me convulse. It was actually kind of scary, as I am a mild epileptic, and the editing techniques were so sudden. It would go from one scene of, say, a dog and it's owner, and then POW! cut right to another scene where maybe someone was cooking. Very disturbing, yet I couldn't tear my eyes away. Sort of like an accident scene where you pass by in your car and, of course, you WANT to turn away, but you look just in case it's your grade school principal. The one that called you a liar when you swore you never took anyones milk money. Great, great moviemaking. I just, uhh, need to be alone for a minute here...
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This movie is gold. One of the best comedies ever made.
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Summary: Best Mocumentary
Review: This is my favorite of the Mock-umentaries that Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy have done.
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Summary: Best Show, period
Review: This is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen! I recently saw it for the first time on HBO and couldn't wait until it was run again...and again...and again! This is a classic comedy!
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Summary: Delightfully goofy send up of dog owners.
Review: Almost everyone I know was aware of my nuttiness over my dog Courageous, now deceased, and over my new Great Dane, Tempo, so almost everyone has also suggested I see this movie. When another dog obsessed friend, Jodi, owner of a standard poodle named Jack, also suggested it, I decided I had to see Best in Show. The film is a cinematic send up of the dog show world and its participants, and while the dogs come off as normal "people," their owners come across as real "zoo creatures!" I've watched the Westminster dog show on television a couple of times-Danes almost never win best in show-so I've gotten a feel for the venue, and the movie has captured it right down to the interviews with the sponsor and various dog owners and the chatty repartee of the narrators. The work is done much in the style of another "interview" film, This is Spinal Tap, and like that work, this one is just as convincing despite the outrageous behavior of some of the characters. So talented were the various actors that I actually believed they were what they suggested they were. It wasn't until my husband pointed out that he'd seem them in other comedic parts that he was able to convince me that they weren't part of the dog show milieu. My favorite character was the owner of the blood hound (Christopher Guest, the director himself) whose conversation was so deadly dull that he could glaze the eyes of his listeners. His discussion while at a cocktail party of the various lures used in fly fishing is quite entertaining as are the desperate attempts of his victims to politely escape him. A delightful and thoroughly goofy film.
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Summary: I Give This Four Barks Out of Five
Review: Best in Show is a clever 'mocumentary', a delightful satire of the dog show world. Director Christopher Guest and co-writer Eugene Levy also star in the movie, along with a slew of other comic actors. As writers, Guest and Levy are throwbacks to kinder, gentler times. Their brand of satire is funny and sometimes biting, but it is never brutal. They allow the performers to improvise a lot. This doesn't always work out, but when it does, the results are hysterical. The movie succeeds because the dogs' owners, not the dogs themselves, are the real characters. It shows that in the bond between man and dog, man may be the strangest and funniest half. At the start, we meet several couples and individuals who will be showing their dogs in the Mayflower competition in Philadelphia. Some are shown in real scenes, other in fake interviews. Christopher Guest is Harlan Pepper, a down home North Carolina boy who runs a fishing supply store. He also raises champion blood hounds and dreams of being a ventriloquist. Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara play the Flecks. He literally has two left feet, and she is an aging hot babe, who is constantly running into men from her past, much to Mr. Fleck's annoyance. Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock are the Swans, a couple of yuppie lawyers who have channeled way too much emotion into their dog. Sherri Ann [Jennifer Coolidge] is a very buxom and very wealthy matron who, along with her trainer, Christie [Jane Lynch], has entered her pom-pommed poodle. Finally, we met Scott and Stephan [John Michael Higgins and Michael McKeen], a gay couple who has entered one of their beloved toy dogs. In their spare time, Scott and Stephan produce calendars, using photos of their dogs dressed up like characters in famous movies. The movie follows the characters before, during and after the competition. The show itself is quite authentic looking. It even spoofs sports announcing. One of the announcers is a proper Englishman, full of knowledge about dog shows. The other is an American who is completely clueless. Their scenes are among the film's funniest. The humor is Best in Show is too dry for some viewers. It's often subtle comedy. I enjoyed it, but I like my humor from broad to dry and everything in-between. I also think I share Guest and Levy's point of view. They seem to be dog lovers who think that what goes on in the world of championship dog lovers is somewhat over the top. What the characters in the movie express towards dogs isn't exactly love. It's more obsession and a need to be noticed. In fact, these people require more attention than their mutts do.
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Summary: Guest Strikes Again
Review: Christopher Guest, that brilliant comedian from "Saturday Night Live", member of Spinal Tap, and writer/director of comedic gems like "Waiting For Guffman", is back once again with another laugh filled(very dry humor)piece of film with this well made "mockumentary" on competitive dog shows. The film follows 5 different couples and their respected dogs traveling to compete in the all important 'Best Of Show' dog show. Playing the people are a wide range of great talent. Former SCTV co-stars Catherine 'O' Hara and Eugene Levy(who co-wrote with Guest)appear as a couple with the wife running into a number of old sexual partners. Another is the great Michael McKean as part of a gay couple. I can't remember the other guy's name. Then you have Jennifer Coolidge(American Pie, Legally Blonde)as a rich blonde and her rather butch-ish dog handler(Played by Jane Lynch). Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock play a yuppy-ish couple who go to therapy because they think their dog has been damaged by seeing them have sex. And, finally, the last person is Guest himself. He plays Harlan Pepper, a southerner with a deep accent who also longs to be a ventriloquist. Very rich and well developed characters. As I've mentioned, the film is done in the 'documentary' style. Not everybody goes for that. I find it to be refreshing and funny. "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is another "mockumentary" favorite of mine. Guest is no doubt a comedy genius. He has an incredible knack for finding the funny in incredibly unfunny things. He is a master. Catherine 'O' Hara's running joke about running into old sex partners could've been used to exhaustion, but thankfully, the makers only had it happen three times, so it doesn't lose the humor. Alas, I have saved the best for last. I'm talking about the great Fred Willard. How great is this man?. He's been around forever always doing a good job. This guy was perfect as the dog show announcer who just blurts out rather odd and hilarious dialogue throughout the show. Hilarious. Other familiar faces here are Ed Begley Jr., and comedian Larry Miller. This style of film and comedy doesn't float everyone's boat, but it should. One simply can't wait for what Guest has in store for us next.
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Summary: 2 Left Feet!!!!!!! ha ha ha
Review: I just saw this movie on HBO. it is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen in my life. I had never heard of it before, and I feel bad that it didn't get more recognition than it did. I really like cocoa krispies and think that they are yummy!!!
Anyway buy this movie it is worth it. Plus Eugine Levey deserves the royalties!!!
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