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Summary: It's Best in Show without the dogs - and just as funny
Review: Once again, a hilarious movie from Christopher Guest. This is genuinely funny, and I was surprised by this - I was expecting something a little more disappointing.The only gripe with it is that it feels very similar to Best in Show (unsurprisingly), especially since almost all the actors were also in Best in Show. That's hardly a slight against the movie, it just feels a little odd if you've also seen Best in Show -- you have to force your mind to stop thinking of people as "guy with the basset hound." The DVD also has the bonus of extra footage - highly worth it since the film, while paced excellently, ends long before you want it to. A little on the short side, but truly funny the entire time, this film comes highly recommended.
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Summary: If you liked "Spinal Tap" you might not like this
Review: This movie was tedious and for a VERY limited audience... I rented it and it was dreary and boring. Too many of these movies are former "Second City" cast members who've forgotten how to write a script. Improv doesn't always work in movies. Also--Fred Willard is NOT FUNNY. He is the "Anti-Funny" and drags down anything he has ever been in. Why a brilliant mind like Martin Mull ever teamed up with that moron is behind me. Christopher Guest is only marginally funny. He likes to play these effete characters, though--ever since Sat. Night Live. What a waste....
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Summary: Guest and Levy - Together Again!
Review: This one cracked me up more than Best In Show. Christopher Guest has put to gether a great improvisinational act with a core group with Carhorine O'Hara, Fred Williard, Bob Balaban, Eugene Levy and himself. They all play such diverse and almost surrealistic characters that they make you wonder if they might be player a distant, distant relative. Eugene Levy and Chistopher Guest wrote the screenplay concept and then with the talented cast the assembled, most of what you see is improvisational and spontaneous. You may think how do they do that? Well if you given your chatacter description with appropriate costume and character background, put on set with other chartaacters and told what the scene set-up is - you run with it. That's improve. The DVD shows a few scene that were cut out but my favorite part is the commentary by Eugene and Chris. They are funny. Since Spinal Tap. This one is my favorite of his. From the auditions to the town 150th anniversay celebration. It cracked me up.
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Summary: It's SOOO true!!!
Review: As someone who has been in community theater for awhile, I couldn't help but laugh at this movie. In a comic and exaggerated way, it catches the essence of non-pro theater. It's hilarious how the characters try to pretend to be pros at acting. My favorite part was the auditions scene. Each audition was as terrible(and gut-bustingly funny) as the next, just like real auditions. If you've ever directed, acted, or involved yourself in community theater at all, you'll LOVE this movie. Get ready to laugh!!!
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Summary: Its the day of the show, y'all.
Review: And what a fabulous show it is, too. I have done a bit of community theatre myself, and Guffman has only served to help me appreciate it all the more. When i first saw Waiting for Guffman, I laughed harder than i had ever laughed at a movie. The second time i saw it, i laughed so hard i couldn't breathe and i nearly wet myself. Christopher Guest is perfect as Corky St. Claire, and if you have seen him in ...Spinal Tap or Princess Bride or Best in Show, you know how much he immerses himself in a role, i have trouble telling that he's the same actor in any of the parts. And each one is played to perfection, with my favorite being Corky, the big city man, come to bring culture to the backwoods Blainians. Parker Posey is likewise perfect as the daft Libby Mae Brown. I can see how people could see this show as boring, but certainly it is not unimaginative, if you know anyone who is anything like these people. If you have seen the number of locally made commercials that i have seen, you know how people turn in front of a camera, and all of these people do it perfectly...
Not enough can be said, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, and especially Linda Kash (Mrs. Allan Pearl).
You must purchase the DVD edition of this movie, it has the best supply of deleted scenes that i have seen. You will cry when you hear Corky talking about riding the sperm whale or the Shirley Temple dress.
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Summary: Wonderfully loopy
Review: I watched this DVD with a friend who has spent many years teaching music and working on high school musical productions. We both found this movie a real hoot. There are not a lot of hysterical laughs, but many chortles and knowing smiles as typical small-town musical theater types and situations are skewered in relentless succession. Thoroughly delightful, especially if you have ever seen or been involved in an amatuer musical theater effort.
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Summary: Buy this.. or I'll go and BITE MY PILLOW!
Review: a hilarious movie... a must for anyone with an interest in amateur or community theatre - don't be offended, just take it the way it's meant... You'll learn alot about yourself :p
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Summary: waiting for laughs
Review: It's one thing to be mean-spirited. But to be mean-spirited and unimaginative is to take dull to a whole new level. That's where you'll find this junk heap of a mockumentary. Even with the great Parker Posey, I didn't laugh or even crack a smile once. It's about as funny as an accounting textbook.
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Summary: Very Funny
Review: This is a comic satire on the productions put on by rural groups. The production reminds me of cheesy off the wall and silly school plays and performances that one would most surely see if one were to leave the urban setting of the city. The production itself incorporates very subtle jokes and humor which is not for everybody. It seems that only very sophisticated people will understand some of the humor and jokes in this film. All in all, a must have for your DVD collection.
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Summary: I am a Christopher Guest fan...
Review: ...I celebrate the man's entire catalogue. Of his 3 movies, "Waiting for Guffman," is easily his funniest. The deleted scenes (especially "This Bulging River") are a must see for any fan. For those who haven't seen the movie, if you loved "Best in Show" you might be disappointed by this movie. You shouldn't be though, cause "Guffman" is much more funny. However, there is a weird strain of people that love "Best in Show" and not "Guffman." I think it has something to do with dogs.
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