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Summary: great comedy, gotta get dvd
Review: Christopher guest shows us again how good he really is at making comedys, and with eugene levy helping him write it, its a masterpice. if your thinking of buying it, i would definitally enforce it, ive watched it many many times since i bought it, and the deleted scenes are the best.
-Dave White
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Summary: Another hysterical expose by the Guffman cast
Review: Lovers of dogs and Waiting for Guffman couldn't help but be excited by this new movie on dog shows. It will have you laughing and quoting like crazy. I would recommend you watch Waiting for Guffman first so that you can fully comprehend the genius of this movie.
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Summary: very funny movie.
Review: great extras on dvd. don't miss this one.
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Summary: One of the funniest!!
Review: Kudos to Best in Show!! This movie keeps me laughing every minute, and although it had it's cheezy moments, it was great overall. I watch this nearly every month. A great movie for a comedy-buff.
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Summary: Best in Movies
Review: This has to be one of the funniest films I have seen. I also like being able to enjoy the commentary of Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy.
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Summary: As funny as a wet dog is smelly!
Review: Where do I start? If you liked Spinal Tap, you'll love Best in Show. The best part of watching the movie in knowing the entire thing is improvised...Fred Willard is absolutely hilarious, and Chris Guest should have added even more footage of Michael McKean and John Michael Higgins...they stole the movie! (Watch the deleted scenes of those guys, too.) The audio commentary was also very informative.
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Summary: A very funny movie!
Review: If you are a dog lover - you'll get a kick out of this movie! It makes fun of dog shows - but sheds some accurate light on dog people - they are an interesting breed of people - but good people to know. Your sides will ache laughing so hard!
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Summary: "God loves terriers!"
Review: Another of Christopher Guest's wonderful studies of an odd little show-business world within worlds, BEST IN SHOW may not be as consistently funny as his previous effort, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, but it's pretty hilarious nonetheless (and plus it has what is his funniest scene from any of his movies, the scene with Parker Posey as a furious yuppie trying to buy the replacement for her Weimeramer's favorite toy in a pet store). All of Guest's usual repertoire--Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock Jane Lynch, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr. and Jennifer Coolidge and of course the sublime Catherine O'Hara--are at their usual superb best, with a special honorable mention going to Fred Willard as a hilariously vulgar and idiotic dog show television commentator. Through it all, the dogs themselves retain their beauty and their dignity (as Guest and Levy point out on the DVD's optional running commentary, you almost never hear any of the dogs even barking during the entire film).
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Summary: If you have the same sense of humor I do...
Review: This is the funniest movie I have ever seen. In fact, I cannot even THINK about BEST IN SHOW or watch a real dog show without laughing out loud. I'm buying another DVD because I can't remember who I loaned it to last. The characters, the acting, the twists, the turns leave me exhausted from enjoyment. They say that laughter is healing. If that's true, BEST IN SHOW is better than a trip to the doctor!
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Summary: Interesting narrative structure, missing actual funnies
Review: Best in Show is about a dog show, especially the participating families and their dogs. We meet a number of characters, including a gay couple, a neurotic couple, a man who operates a fishing shop, and so on. We see them in their daily lives, follow them in their trip to the dog show, and the happenings there.The most interesting thing about Best in Show is its narrative structure - mainly composed of sustained shots of individuals or couples, documentary-style, talking at the camera as if they were being interviewed about their lives and what they are doing at the moment. It is interesting to watch, but this movie is not funny. It has few laughs in it, and the attempts are ham-handed. For example, we see a man who literally has two left feet, or a gay couple which decorates its hotel room. Is this stuff funny ? Sure, if you've never seen a comedy before. In fact, the funniest scene on the DVD is not in the movie, but a deleted scene - where Harlan Pepper (the most interesting character, in my opinion) talks about the degrees of greatness of his dog's nose compared to a space shuttle, and it is a scene which is not only funny but works on many levels. I'd say this symbolizes what this movie could have been. We don't care about the dog show, except as a framework, and the scenes involving it are not very funny. We want to see more of these people - at least the more three-dimensional ones. This is the direction this movie should have gone in.
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