Best in Show

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It is so hilarious that you have to buy it because you will want to see it again and again. This is the best movie ever. I have watched it over and over and over again and never get sick of it.

Gotta get it. It's hilarious and funny. We sure did. Excellent, if you have dogs, then this is the movie for you. Some of the couples you can relate to in every day life.

The characters are well-rounded and developed, the cinematography is great, but the plot just doesn't go anywhere. The film took itself seriously, which is what most audiences loved, but I just couldn't get into it.

The film follows a group of dog show contestants on the road to, and during, a national dog show competition, and that's it. There's no relief factor.

Guest continously puts his characters in awkwardly funny situations that should make the audience chuckle and laugh, but I just don't see it. I could have easily gotten the same thing on Animal Planet.

There's no punch lines. Just ninety minutes of owners and their dogs.

While I find nothing wrong with Christopher Guest's mocumentary films, and most times even find them incredibly funny, "Best in Show" missed its mark. There's no twists.

In particular, McKean and John Michael Higgins chew up every scene they're in as two very gay boutique operators and dog show enthusiasts; yes, they stumble over every gay stereotype in the book, but they do so with tongue-in-cheek good humor. Improvisational comedy takes a special talent, so Guest employs several Second City veterans to wing it in front of the camera (including Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, and Fred Willard). While Guest's character (whose name is Harlan Pepper, a classic) and Fred Willard (an empty suit TV announcer) tend to get annoying, the rest of the cast improvs and interacts in pure comedic camaraderie. Mikels, Author, Walk-On

D. Special feature disappointments aside, BEST IN SHOW is pure, tight, improvisational blissa howler in a good way. Special features. Several deleted scenes are available; once viewed, it becomes readily apparent why they were not included in the final cut.

Christopher Guest, who has made comedic improv "mockumentaries" an art form, hits the funny bone yet again with his ensemble cast of lovable loons who take competitive dog showing just a tad too seriously. Take a North Carolina country boy, a Midwest suburban (bipolar) couple, a nerd with two left feet and his former nymph wife, two rather flaming beauty salon operators, a gold-digging wife and her lesbian dog trainer, mix in some interesting canines (who, ironically, are the only stable beings in sight), plug them all into the high stakes tension that is the (fictitious) Mayflower Dog Show, and you've got BEST IN SHOW. This edition includes commentaries by cowriters Guest and Levy; both comics basically go through the motions and offer little insight behind the scenes.

Dog lovers will enjoy this movie, with it's adult situations and humor. The dog show commentary is especially funny.