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Summary: Why didn't this movie get noticed?!
Review: This is one of the funniest damn movies that I have seen in a while. For the lovers of witty, offbeat comedies like Austin Powers and Friday. Every character is hilariously eccentric and every scene had me laughing out loud. Great one-liners. The type of movie that you'll keep talking and laughing about with you're friends for hours and days after you've seen it. Everybody that I have recommended it to (including usually tough reviewers) has loved it. Definitely worth adding to your library as I guarantee you will want to watch it over and over.
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Summary: SHAGGY DOGUMENTARY FARCE ALL TOO TRUE
Review: Sly humor in another vein is finely tuned in Christopher ("This Is Spinal Tap" and "Waiting for Guffman") Guest's "BEST IN SHOW." Writer-director Guest and his fearless ensemble players zero in on the animals and humans who dwell in the strange subculture of competitive dog shows. Almost documentary -- or should I say "dogumentary"? -- in style, this largely improvised, sustained farce follows a clique of dog owners as they enter their animals in a national competition. You may not laugh out loud, but you will certainly smile and possibly even chortle at the eccentric dog owners. There's Parker Posey and Mike Hitchcock, a tightly-wound, pretentious yuppie couple who think they've traumatized their Weimeraner when they had sex in front of him. Co-writer Eugene Levy is a Terrier owner and amazingly tolerant husband to Catherine O'Hara and her prodigious sleep-around past. Guest is a loquacious, ventriloquist-aspiring and literally red-necked owner of a sardonically-faced Bloodhound. Fred Willard steals the show as a naive -- and painfully inappropriate -- ad-libbing announcer. This is a sweet movie that holds an affectionate mirror to absurd human behavior in a ridiculous setting. Animal lovers rest assured, there are no jokes at any dog's expense. The disc includes a witty commentary by Guest and Levy and a bunch of deletes scenes. Recommended.
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Summary: Dog Lovers Movie
Review: I like dogs, but this movie about various contestants that enter their dogs in a dog show, disappointed me. You ask yourself, "How did this make it to the movie theater?" The first 15 minutes is enough to make you question your sanity for even sitting there and watching this film. If you make it throught that (or fast forward) the rest of the movie is a little better. Sorry to say, even the dogs could not save this movie.
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Summary: Dog-umentary
Review: This movie is a spoof on those who consider showing dogs as one of the more important facets of life. It follows 5 different couples (two of whom are gay) and details the preparations they go through before an important dog show. "Little League Dads" and "Pom-pom Moms" have nothing on these strange characters who are literally living through their dogs. This is as dysfunctional a group as you could imagine and the jokes are sometimes funny, but more often they fall a bit flat. This is good for a few chuckles, but is not as funny as the promos would have you believe.
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Summary: Almost Best in Show
Review: I've always been jealous of Christopher Guest... As a performer he played Nigel in SPINAL TAP, Corky St Clair in WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, Count Rugen in THE PRINCESS BRIDE and several others. In each of these he is totally unrecognizable from the other. In this film, which he also directed he is again unique in the lexicon that is Christopher Guest. And on top of it all, he is married to Jamie Lee Curtis. With BEST IN SHOW, Christopher Guest has again compiled some of the best improvisational actors to mount this 'dogumentary". It follows the excitement and peculiarity of the Mayflower Dog Show, an annual event held in Philadelphia. Much of the film is hysterical. The thorn in this film is an angry couple portrayed by Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock. Their dispicable take on the 'yuppies' is so ugly, that it taints the tone of he entire film. But, Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy, John Michael Higgins and Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest are phenomenal. The DVD offers several deleted scenes as well as commentary by Guest and Levy. An enjoyable evening for the adults.
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Summary: Comic Acting Showcase
Review: The freedom given the actors in this project pays great dividends. This is NOT your typical Hollywood sight-gag, slapstick, bathroom humor comedy. It is smart, subtle, and completely convincing. While some of the ideas are predictable, many are brilliant and it is obvious the actors are having a great time. I would not recommend this movie for everyone. If you can't get enough of Jim Carrey, leave this one alone.
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Summary: Not the Insult to the Dog World as One Might Expect
Review: SCTV used to be my favorite show on NBC-TV, and I looked forward to seeing Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy. They do not disappoint. It's such a pleasure to see several Second-City performers in this film showing off their absolute mastery of the improv arts. To know that much of the film's dialogue was improvised held me riveted for every scene, and watching the actors react to their colleagues with perfect timing was fantastic.If you love improvisational acting, this is a tour-de-force performance. Fred Willard is, of course, hilarious, and I recommend it for anyone who's seen the Westminster dog show, or who just finds human peculiarities fascinating to watch.
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Summary: Who Knew?
Review: When I heard this movie was about dog shows, I was curious as to just what Christopher Guest had created. His latest mockumentary is an hysterical farce of those shows and the people who live by them. Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (SCTV) team up again as though they were never apart. It almost makes me forgive O'Hara for those Home Alone movies. Guest also appears and is much funnier than most people who only act. See This Film!
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Summary: Hilarious Dogumentary-style dry-humor farce
Review: I really didnt expect much from this movie, but Best In Show was one of the funniest movies I had seen in a long time. It is filmed as a mock-umentary of the dog show world, following several ludicrous groups of characters from leaving their homes through competing in the dog show. Each character is quite un-subtly ridiculous in their personalities and gets themselves in quite unique situations with there dogs. In order to truly enjoy this film, you need to be in the mood for dumb jokes, quite a bit of sarcasm and making fun of pet people. It's good to watch with some laid back buddies...
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Summary: best in comedy !
Review: an uproariously funny comedy which is destined to become a classic. the humor seems almost spontaneous. fred williard,who plays one of the dog show announcers should have received an oscar. thumbs up from the entire family !
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