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 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 26, 2005 | | Summary | Guest Just Doesn't Get It | Content
| BEST IN SHOW came out of the same right-before-9/11 cultural abyss that gave us Tom Green and MTV's JACKASS. The theatrical release's ninety minutes of mean-spirited barbs based on degrading the little guy and unnecessarily placing people in awkward social situations are supplemented in this DVD release by thirty minutes of deleted scenes with more of the same.
Great acting, especially by Parker Posey, and one laudable attempt to portray a stereotypical loser character with a shred of sympathy do not save the film. It would have been easy to make a good movie based on BEST IN SHOW'S premise. Dog shows are hilarious, and dog fanatics are some of the most bizarrely colorful people on the planet, but practically all of the film is devoted to mocking the millennia-old bond between humans and dogs while Christopher Guest totally overlooks the disturbing glee with which certain dog breeders play god. "She is my creation. I made her," is a remark I once heard from a breeder about her championship papillon. Sentiments like that are not uncommon in the dog show circuit and would provide the ripest material for satire, but Guest doesn't seem to get it. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 03, 2005 | | Summary | If you don't like this movie, get a life | Content
| This is just about the funniest movie I have ever seen (After "There's Something About Mary"). There was perhaps no greater tribute to it than the fact that one of the commentators on the 2005 TV broadcast of the Westminster Dog Show -- the very show that Christopher Guest was mocking -- made reference to it during one of the pivotal moments in the competition. He saw the humor in "Best in Show" -- even though he had been mocked in the movie. If you didn't like this movie, I feel very sorry for you. |
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