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Summary: 2nd best in show
Review: Hilarious movie, but not quite as good as Guffman.
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Summary: Best In Show Is hilarious!
Review: definitely a gem in any DVD collection!
But - you must have the predecessor, Waiting For Guffman.
Christopher Guest is a genius!
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Summary: Hilarious concept!
Review: In a world filled with trite movies of teenaged angst, this movie is refreshing and amusing. The movie follows several petowners as they prepare for a major dog show. However, these are not just your average dogowners. Their complete obsession with winning the coveted "Best in Show" prize motivates their hilarious antics. The dogs in the movie have more common sense than their owners.
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Summary: Much needed after watching the real thing
Review: I have to say, this is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Asside from "Waiting for Guffman", which was also directed by Christopher Guest, there are no better satire movies than this. Based on dog shows, this documentary follows several individuals and couples as they prepare to go to the big show. There is an apparent script, but much of it is ad-libbed, and the actors do such a good job of it. Every scene is filled with laughs. And if watching the entire movie isnt enough, there are about 30 deleted scenes that are just as funny, but that might not've fit the feeling of the film as a whole. If you're a dog, or a friend of a dog, or you just like comedies, get this movie!
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Summary: Funny as hell
Review: Watch it and laugh your a** off. That's all I have to say.
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Summary: Needs more on dogs and less on documentary and sex humor
Review: "Best in Show" was a big disappointment. I was expecting a funny dog show movie, but got a corny, stereotyped movie that stressed sex humor over substance. Where are the good old movies that relied on subtlety and good acting? I think the movie had a lot of potential but missed its mark.
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Summary: Not recommended
Review: I do not recommend this movie to anyone. I found it boring, and overall not good. There were some semi-funny parts, but not many.
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Summary: Making fun of the mundane...
Review: The beauty of this movie of course is how the director uses (seemingly) typical American types but turns them into cartoon characters. The story revolves around a dog show that takes place in Florida I believe, and the focus of course is own the dog owners. Ironically, the owners get into the show more than the dogs. We have a yokel who resembles his dog, a married couple who like to make songs about dogs(with the guy who plays Jim's dad in American Pie), a yuppie couple, and some other oddities. Also, the commentators are an American guy who can't stop cracking jokes (played by the guy who shows up on the tonight show a lot) and an Englishman who takes his job very seriously. By the end, it's obviously these folks who are on display as opposed to their dogs. Those who don't like subtle commedy should stay away though. The DVD contains your usual extras, not much special, just some info, cut scenes and such.
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Summary: Hiliarious with stupid humor
Review: Christopher Guest did a wonderful job with this movie. The characters are very well developed and very funny. This movie has a star packed cast including Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy. The fact that this was filmed in a documentary setting makes this movie a funny form of the Blair Witch craze.
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Summary: Fred Willard is a comic genius.
Review: You might think that the audience most likely to appreciate 'Best In Show' - a mockumentary following the fortunes of various owners who have entered their mutts in the Mayflower Dog Show, Philadelphia - would be dog-lovers. It is these, however, who are likely to be most disappointed. Just as historians cannot enjoy films like 'Elizabeth' because Francis Walsingham WASN'T wearing a chestnut buskin in his interview with the Queen on the 15th of October, 1572, so dog-owners will wonder why the realities of dogs - toilet problems; rolling over for rubs; the wide-eyed expectancy; the cunning gamesmanship; the shameless expeditions for 'perfume'; the talkative yawns; the curious sniffing of admirers; the yearning whimpers; the frank demands for your food etc. - are absent. This is because the film's focus is firmly on the largely psychotic 'handlers', whose mania for success has turned animals they are supposed to love into over-trained automatons. When the depressed Weimaraner, bullied and shrieked at by his appalling owners, finally lashes out and deliberately loses the contest for them, you can only cheer. 'Best in Show' is very much a film of two halves. The first shows the owvers preparing for and travelling to the show. Here the (improvised) material is content to settle for lazy caricature, and it is up to some amazing comedians - including 'Spinal Tap' veterans Christopher Guest and Michael McKean; Catherine O'Hara; co-writer Eugene Levy - to enliven it. The second half, at the dog show itself, is superb. This is because an unimaginative formal device - the use of commentators to explain the mechanics of these shows - turns out to be an inspired comic coup. Fred Willard is a delightfully crass and bemused showman, stating the obvious and puerile with scatalogical glee, suggesting... improvements (bloodhounds should where deerstalkers and pipes a la Sherlock Holmes!); his squirming, English co-commentator, a dog expert with a string of Obedience Schools tries in vain to restore sobriety to the reportage. The straight man/vulgar buffoon double act is hysterical in its own right, and galvanises the main narrative, their commentary on it making the handlers' activities hilarious. 'Best In Show' could never hope to equal 'Spinal Tap'. Not only is the material not as funny, nor does the caricatured narrative arc allow the unexpected poignancy of the first film, but dog shows, a marginal activity, simply don't have the enormous cultural and emotional cache of rock music, which really does teeter on the brink of sublimity and ridiculousness. With a brisk running time, though, 'Best In Show' is a likable minor work.
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