Best in Show

'Best in Show" is boasts an appealingly quirky premise and a brilliantly talented cast. We were so lucky to have Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard in our lives.

A hilarious and brilliant parody of dog show culture, and how ridiculously obsessive contestants get for the perfect thoroughbred show dog.

Christopher Guest and his regular cast of improv legends tackle another unsuspecting target in this wild-eyed send-up of the competitive dog show circuit. It's a bit more all-audiences than Spinal Tap, completely skips the emotional hooks of A Mighty Wind or Waiting For Guffman, but still delivers enough snickers to validate its simple retirement as late-night cable network filler. The straight-ahead plot never shows much interest in progressing beyond simple character-driven adventure, and while each member of the cast is good for a smart punchline or two, the roles themselves are little more than shallow, narrow caricatures. Fine as a background flick, thrown on to fill the air when your focus will be frequently elsewhere, it never reaches the same heights as its siblings.

It astonishing how many good reviews there are. It feels like an episode of The Office, but without the charm, or the humor, or the emotion. It's just a movie about people going to a dog show. That's it. That's basically the entirety of the script

one of half a dozen movies that i couldn't even finish watching! It's all about a dog show and peoples who are crazy about their dogs. It's supposed to be funny and have some kind of unique comedy and i see that a lot of people liked it. It's not my taste of comedy but that's the point what one considers funny, another does not.