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Summary: Awful, Boring, (You can't get worse than this)
Review: My oh my! Such good reviews, such a horrible movie. Friends of mine said this movie is hysterical, when it is really a boring documentory. I love dogs and have one, and this movie was supposed to be a comedy on what? Dogs! As soon as this movie was released I rushed to the store to rent it. I actually lasted an hour through this movie, which is terribly hard to believe. I painfully watched almost the whole movie, but had to stop towards the end. I'm surprised I wasn't dozing off. This movie is the stupidest movie I've ever seen. I have to say the dogs were adorable, but the script is awful! They describe this movie a lot differently then it really is. I thought (after watching the movie) that they had made a mistake and put the wrong describtion on the wrong movie. Getting back to the point, (which the movie had none of) is that you really, really have to be desperate to rent this movie. Yes, I guess if you were on a Stranded Island for a year without any other movies, than yeah, I would watch it, but please DO NOT rent this movie. Even Spiceworld is better than this!!! Overall I have to say the best part of this movie was the previews before the movie started.
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Summary: A Very Funny Movie!!!
Review: Have loved all of Christopher Guests movies starting with Spinal Tap. The scenes with the ventriloquist puppet "Lil' Buddy" are very funny as well and too brief (there is another bonus deleted scene that can be found on the DVD). I found the website for the company that made this puppet and was fascinated ...
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Summary: I've seen it all before
Review: I almost died laughing with "This is Spinal Tap", and had a really good time with "Waiting for Guffman". But too much of a good thing can go awry, and the 'mockumentary' style is old news for me. Granted, the movie has some funny moments, but after a while the interviews got to be too predictable. The actors are fantastic, especially Parker Posey as a hysterical and rude dog owner, but their great acting is not enough to carry the movie forward. My favorite part is the duo of show commentators. The American is being all crass and makes bad jokes, while the English tries to endure the aggravation as politely as possible. Other than that, i found it hard to crack a smile here and there.
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Summary: Dry Humor, Social Commentary
Review: On the surface, this interesting movie examines people who are very interested in showing dogs. Some of the characters have a healthy interest, some exercise a terribly destructive interest. The dry humor throughout is subtly, but absolutely a riot.The plot develops as the characters all play interesting, but relatively passive roles against eachother when they compete in a national dog show. And that's the deeper meaning of the moive: how do people with different ideas and approaches to the same subject all get along in the same contest? The movie also takes time to examine the curious aftermath for each of its characters. The picture quality is excellent but not dazzling. I found the sound somewhat lacking; there wasn't much presence in any scene. The removed scenes seem like they could have been some of the funniest in the movie, and they're fun to watch afterwards.
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Summary: Guest is Best!
Review: Christopher Guest has done it again! He has managed to follow Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman with another gem that shows the irony and humor of everyday people caught up in their passions...this time the world of competitive dog shows. The ensemble cast, many of them returning from roles in Waiting for Guffman, again brings us the essence of the comedy of life. Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy are wonderful as the terrier lovers! It is the type of movie one can watch over and over, each time catching new laughs and marvelling at the wonderful characterizations. And as a dog show attendee, I can attest to the reality of the presentations! Best in Show is a gem!
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Summary: Mockumentary greatness
Review: Best in Show is a great new addition to the mockumentary genre. From across the Eastern Seaboard, a half dozen dog lovers bring their dogs to Philadelphia for the Mayflower Dog Show. We see each strange contestant - and their owners - make their way to the show, and watch as they compete for the prize title: Best in Show. Great dark tongue in cheek humour for the whole family.
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Summary: Mockumentary much
Review: This was a great film. Best in Show, along with Drop Dead Gorgeous, has me hooked on the mocumentary genre. And who is that Jennifer Coolidge gal? Those lips are just too much. She looks like a drag queen.
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Summary: Good commercials, bad movie
Review: If you go to a video store, best in show is the worst (Movie) on shelf. I had high hopes for it.There were okay parts, but it was a huge dissapointment.
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Summary: Best in the Show really is a Dog
Review: One major problem. Not very funny. Nothing really happens. A rather banal format where various contestants are continually interviewed in litte snippets throughout the film with unimaginative dialogue and mediocre acting. Save your money. Most of all - save your time. Can't imagine why I sat through more than 10 minutes - kept hoping there would be a laugh sooner or later.
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Summary: Not the best...
Review: On its own, "Best in Show" would be a marginally amusing comedy about dog show people, but I was very disappointed in it, especially in comparison to Guest's previous "Waiting For Guffman", and his involvement (though he didn't direct) in "This Is Spinal Tap". The main difference between "Show" and "Guffman" was the characters, or not really in the characters, as some were similar, but more in how they were used. In "Show" the characters had little real depth to them, and the tragedy was that they just weren't used in very funny ways. Interesting types of characters, yes, but it's almost like Guest created some interesting people but they didn't do much with what they had. "Guffman" had interestingly flawed characters, as does "Show" (although the "Show" characters are just more obnoxious than anything else), and the moments they created and the world they exhibited seemed more poignant and colored more broadly than in "Show". The Catherine O'Hara character was just a lame one-joke thing repeating through the movie, and the other main characters had little more to offer. Fred Ward as the dog show announcer was amusing at times, and obviously the funniest part of the film, but unfortunately that's not saying much, and it wasn't as if it was a real side-splitting kind of thing. Actually, my favorite part of the film was watching Ward's British counterpart react to him, and the two announcers together were a good part of the film. But as a whole, it was pretty weak, crude, and quite a disappointment. I'd still be interested to see the outtakes on the DVD. Maybe there's some funny bits in there, but then again, if that stuff didn't even make the movie, then probably not.
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