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Summary: Classic, hilarious comedy!
Review: I've seen "Waiting For Guffman" five times. Christopher Guest and his ensemble give the audience a side-splitting look at smalltown America--a very affectionate, true, look--and the musical numbers are surprisingly good.Blaine, Missouri "that little town in the heart of a big country with a big heart" is celebrating its 150th birthday. Corky St. Clair, recently of "off-off-off Broadway" is visiting and plans to make a stage production celebrating Blaine, Missouri. He invites Mr. Huffman of New York to come, and to Corky's pleasure, Mr. Huffman agrees. Corky, brilliantly played by Guest is too much. He likes to buy his wife Bonnie's clothes, but she is nowhere to be seen. He wants to go home and "just bite my pillow" when he gets upset with the town council. Parker Posey who plays a Dairy Queen waitress and wants to eventually go to the big city where there are "a lot of Italian guys" is also fantastic. Levy, who plays David Pearl, is amazing. He wonders if he has been wasting his entire life by hiding his stage talent behind a dentist's chair. His wife is hilarious too. She is so glad that they are meeting so many theater people, "because we used to hang around with people who have babies and stuff." The two travel agents, who have never been out of Blaine, are called the "Lunts of Blaine." When they audition for a role in Corky's new produciton, they use "Midnight at the Oasis" as the theme, both of them dressed in sweat suits. There are more priceless scenes--too many to mention here.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This movie is absolutely hilarious. It has an all-star cast that is brilliantly funny. The DVD contains deleted scenes that are a riot and a behind-the-scenes write-up as well as commentary by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy. It is one of those movies that just stands out as being fun to watch. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Jmmmovielover
Review: Side-spliting laughter! Sooooo funny! How can anybody not like this movie, it has a great cast and very funny characters. Rent this movie you wont be disapointed.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: I am sorry for the other riviewers, I thought the movie was original, and well acted, but also boring and meaningless.
This is unless, you are really into homosexual, and feminine men.
The beautiful Parker Posey, was a good actor and beautiful as always.
I would not buy it or rent it, unless everything else slightly viewable fos already gone.
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Summary: HILARIOUS
Review: This is probably my favorite movie of all time. The plot is so odd and hilarious that I can watch it over and over again and never tire of it. "Corky" St. Claire is hilarious throughout the entire movie.
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Summary: Hilarious movie!
Review: I didn't know at first that much of this movie was improvised, but knowing that made me realize just how brilliant it really is! Yes, the characters are a little stereotypical at times, as some people have commented, but it is hard for me to see how anyone could consider the movie mean-spirited unless they take themselves way too seriously. I'm telling you, I nearly bust a gut during the scene at the end with Corky in the shop. I was expecting something just as funny when I watched Best in Show, but that was nowhere even close to Waiting for Guffman, in my opinion. It may not be everyone's sense of humor, but it's probably the funniest movie I've ever seen!
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Summary: Waiting fo rGuffman
Review: Well I like a broad range of films but this film is probably the worst I have ever seen. I sat there waiting for it to get into some sort of story but it didn't. It was like pulling teeth! I couldn't believe I had waisted my time. I purchased the DVD because of the good rating but boy was I wrong. I know English and American humour is different but I can't believe this is popular in the States!
Boring, boring, boring, what else can I say.
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Summary: Funniest commentary on small town America yet
Review: Christopher Guest is a genius and I love him for this movie. I will not tell you exactly what this movie is about because it could ruin for you. I will just say that if you do not buy this movie you will be missing out on one of the best comedies of all time.
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Summary: The Best of the Mockumentaries
Review: The "Mockumentary" was first created by Christopher Guest and director Rob Reiner in "This Is Spinal Tap", perhaps the funniest movie ever made about Hard Rock(This includes unintentionally funny films like "Rock Star"). In "Waiting for Guffman", which Guest also directed along with sharing writing duties with Eugene Levy, Guest turns up the satire to 11 and perfects what he created back in the 80's. "Guffman" is of course the first of now three mockumentary films directed by guest and co-written with Levy. I consider "Waiting for Guffman" to be the best, because, as funny as "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind" are, they don't quite get into the full character development that Guest and his stable of improv comedy geniuses achieve in "Guffman". They story is simple: Guest plays Corky St. Clair, alleged former Broadway type, who now lives in the small town of Blaine, Missouri. Corky has become a local celebrity for his small theater productions, which are of course awful, but seem like Shakespere to the small-town residents of Blaine(Corky's most notroious production was a musical version of "Backdraft" that went terribly awry). Anyway, Corky is hired by the town fathers to produce a musical history of Blaine for the town's 150th anniversary. He jumps into it, and what follows is the hilarious journey he and his cast take while putting the play together. The title "Waiting for Guffman", obviously a takeof of "Waiting for Godot", refers to a New York theater reviewer whom Corky has convinced to come see the play. Having no real eye for talent himself, Corky convinces his cast and himself that their musical is good enough to get them to Broadway. And so they throw all of their less than considerable talent into it. The genius of Guest And Levy's writing is that the only thing they actually write are teh basic storyline and sketches for each character, which explains why the actors in these films are as good as they are. They literally invent most of the details of their lives for the camera, and with master improvists like Levy, Guest, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard on their usual list of suspects, it's no wonder why their films are so funny. Even so, "Guffman" is funniest, with the most satisfying and appropriate ending of all three films and with the funniest musical ever put on camera, "Red, White, & Blaine". They town itself becomes a character and it is a testimony to all the smaller players that the whole movie brims with humor from one scene to the next. The fact that the characters are the only ones not in on th joke also makes this movie a delight. "Best in Show" is slicker, and "A Mighty Wind" has more emotional resonance, but "Waiting for Guffman" is the gold standard by which all future Mockumentaries must be judged.
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Summary: Kind of tedius - not that good
Review: This movie dragged. Just so you know where I'm coming from I liked Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and Best In Show. This one's worth skipping.
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