Best in Show | | Cast : | Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge | | Director : | Christopher Guest | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 01, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 21, 2005 | | Summary | A work of genius | Content
 | To me Best in Show is one of the great films of the past decade or so. I have now seen it more than a half dozen times (and very few films hold up to that intense and detailed viewing) and each time that I see it I find more and more things in it to appreciate. Unlike other reviewers, I don't really think that the film is "about" dog shows. Rather, the dog show environment and culture serve merely as a way of revealing the foibles of different sorts of characters in contemporary culture, as well as the genius of talented writers and performers. It is one of those rare films in which almost every line, facial expression, gesture, and action is perfect and conveys a world of meaning, perspective, and irony. It is really a film in the tradition of great comedy (including Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Mozart, and Balzac) that exhibits compassion toward and understanding of human beings in their predicament as fools, naifs, and self-deceivers. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 19, 2005 | | Summary | Very Funny! | Content
| Best in Show is a wonderful "mockumentary" with all the melodramatic wit you would expect from such great improvisational actors. The entire movie had a great "un-movie" feel, as if the characters were really filmed in their homes. The charicatures of yuppies, etc. were hilarious! The commentator did get on my nerves, but that was probably intentional. Be sure to watch all the deleted scenes when you're having trouble getting to sleep.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | Oddball Hilarity | Content
| This movie is hilarious every time I watch it. The exaggerated, oddball characters are superbly acted. This is my favorite so far of the Christopher Guest and company flicks. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | How can anyone ever like this? | Content
| if I could give it zero I would to quote The Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons "Worst Movie Ever" I rented it on DVD and it had a scratch on it and when about 20 minutes in it stopped playing me and my whole family cheered |
| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | This Movie is all Tell and No Show | Content
| This movie makes the classic mistake most writers make when they start out writing, by telling their audience the elements of their stories rather than showing them.
Yeah, there are some real characters in this movie, but what's the point if they are not involved in some type of plot other than the obvious, the dog show. There's not a whole lot going on in this movie. And I found the characters more sad than funny. It's really not funny that one character hasn't paid a long-overdue credit card bill - it's sad and too often a sad fact of life for some of us. It's not funny that one of the characters has two left feet. It's not funny that one of the couples was attracted to each other because they shopped from the same clothing catalog - it's sad. There is always a story behind how a character evolved and that is the more interesting story...
Although, there is superb acting, this movie does not work as a "documentary." It would have been much improved if it had the stories, that were told by the characters themselves, played out instead. |
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