Best in Show
Castle Rock Entertainment: Directed by Christopher Guest. Written by Guest and Eugene Levy. 90 minutes. PG-13
Very droll - and if you like slap-stick skits loosely hung together by a very thin narrative thread, Best in Show does succeed.
Still I didn't find it intellectually satisfying. Satire is a two-way mirror held up to society; it must be sufficiently transparent to get a view of the subject, while at the same time reflecting its creator. I'm afraid that in Best in Show we saw more of Guest's reflection than the world he was attempting to show us.
Certainly, one can't help but respect Guest's directorial
talent, comedic timing and sharp eye for caricature, and the film DID
provide a evening of amusing cultural slumming, but PUH-leeze - is it
too much to ask for a little...content?
Simply too funny! And those dog people - can you imagine? Sure, it WAS fairly predictable in a way - a bunch of clod hoppers out of their depth in the big city. Come on -haven't we gotten enough of the Beverly Hillbillies? And ANOTHER thing about uptight yuppies? BORING. But Parker Posey was SUCH a delicious psycho bitch with those braces, and Christopher Guest is SO good he manages to pull it all off.
John Michael Higgens was a scream. And God! WHO did Sherri Ann Cabot's makeup?
