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Summary: Often Hilarious Satire about the "Dog Show Circuit"
Review: From year-round preparations to the final "big day", this comedy pokes fun at how serious Dog Show enthusiasts are about showing off their beloved K-9s. There are many hilarious scenes, especially among the "extra scenes" that didn't quite make it into the film, but are added at the end of the DVD for extra laughs. -- Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levi give convincing performance as devoted owners of a potential champion pooch. A young couple who enter their dog in the show are absolutely obsessed with this event. Their obnoxious behavior is almost painful to watch. Convinced that she must be traumatized after witnessing "mommie and daddy in bed", they even seek professional "therapy" for their dog. -- Dog show enthusiasts may take offence with the way this film seems to ridicule the business of showing dogs. Seeing the self-sacrifices made by dog owners one wonders how desperately serious the matter is to them. Whether you love dogs/shows or not, you will enjoy this comedy!
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Summary: BEST IN SHOW
Review: THIS MOVIE WENT TO EXHAUSTIVE LENGHTS TO EXTRACT HUMOR FROM THE OUTRAGEOUS ANTICS OF PEOPLE WHO IN MY OPINION OVERINDULGE THEIR DOGS AND THEMSELVES IN DOG SHOW ETIQUETTE.THE MOVIE WAS DESIGNED TO BE FUNNY BUT I FOUND MYSELF WEARY FROM THE DIALOGUE AND I KEPT WAITING FOR THE PLOT TO TAKE OFF...AND IT NEVER DID.
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Summary: Why delete the best scenes?
Review: I have great respect for Christopher Guest, etc., but Best in Show is little more than a bunch of gags edited together. Imagine stringing together the dud sketches from Saturday Night Live. You know the ones--the sketches typically played in the last half hour of SNL that are kind of innovative, but the comedy is forced. Best in Show suffers from the same kind of self-consciousness.It's hard not to compare the film to its predecessor, Waiting for Guffman, which gives the viewer an all-access pass to a ridiculous world of characters who are amazingly complex and pathetic, provoking laughs of recognition and pity. Best in Show keeps us on the outside looking in, and all we see is a rather tame freak show. However, there are a few interesting characters in Best in Show, including the golddigging owner of the returning champion. She and that dog's trainer make an odd but fascinating couple. Their interaction has verisimilitude AND spontaneity. The DVD includes many deleted scenes that flesh out a number of characters and establish the cut-throat politics that drives them. I'd love to edit them into the underdeveloped official version; the result would be a movie that is still not quite fully realized, but far more developed. This film isn't horrible, it's just flat, so I look forward to the next project from this group of filmmakers.
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Summary: Oh so True
Review: As a breeder/exhibitor of dogs, I found this movie hillarous...so it may have seemed dumb, but it was so true. Dog people live in their own world and with the exception of the yuppie couple (haven't found them yet)the other characters were very true to real characters one would find in the dog show world, slightly overdone. That those people would be at a show of this level was a stretch, but very funny.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Simply a must-have for any lover of Christopher Guest's work. Like all masterful comedies "Best in Show" is both funny and poignant in turns. Highly highly recommended.
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Summary: WE ARE SO LUCKY TO LIVE IN A TIME WITH CATALOGS
Review: Christopher Guest once more outdoes himself with a hilarious, farcical film. This time he goes into the world of dog shows. He takes the documentary style to new heights as he follows several "families" pursuing their dream: making their dogs TOP show dogs in a national contest. Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are irresistibly funny as a tacky couple who cannot even pay their hotel bill and are allowed (by the generosity and sympathy of Ed Begley, Jr., the hotel front desk clerk, to stay in a broom closet with a foldaway bed). Parker Posey and her fictional husband (cannot think of the actor's name) are both way over the top as a couple who met by seeing one another in Starbucks which were located directly across the street from each other. Both are obsessive young professionals with braces and clothes straight out of the J Crew catalog (both consider themselves SO lucky to live in this time with so many catalogs). They both obsess over their dog and insist that the dog has emotional problems. They are both so neurotic that they are projecting their own problems on to the dog. Indeed there are many other dog owners-colourful characters-throughout the film. You will enjoy the film's wonderful approach to documenting the dog show circuit.
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Summary: Funny, but lacking.
Review: This is the type of movie that you watch once, snickering every couple of minutes, but don't bother watching again.
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Summary: Wonderful, and accurate too
Review: A delightful mock documentary of the high-level competition at dog shows, done by some experts in improv (Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, among others). Very funny, very silly, and good escapist fare (unless you show dogs, I presume).
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Summary: Dog Movie
Review: This movie is not at all what I thought..I thought it would be one of those boring dog show movies ..and it wasn't..It's about the strange people who enter the dog show..who are willing to put everything on the line to make sure their dog is in it, to win it...Their are 5 dogs and their trainers which are focussed on, and the things that happen to them are just to hilarious...U got to see this movie..
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Summary: Best in Show
Review: We loved this movie! It was hilarious and hit home with all the incredible things people do to compete succesfully in dog shows.
The variety of people, their pets and the psychosis of competition is very well done without a slow moment in the movie from the owners preparation interviews to the 'actual' events leading up to the main event.
Great characters and some serious pity for their pets. A Hoot!
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