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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
More Best In Show than Spinal Tap, 3 Jun 2004
Christopher Guest's directorial debut has still not been released on DVD or video in the UK, and to my knowledge has never been shown on TV (terrestrial or digital) either. I don't know why, as it is surely more aimed at the ironic, sarcastic nature of the British viewer than it is the in-your-face, slapstick humour of our friends across the pond. Anyway...If you liked Best In Show, or A Mighty Wind, you'll love this. If you didn't, you won't. That's it, in a nutshell. The same cast, the same style, the same everything. Replace a dog show, or a folk music festival, with an amateur dramatics scenario, and it's pretty much same as before. Christopher Guest plays Corky St Clair, a "resting" actor, who has settled in the Missouri town of Blaine, which is currently preparing to celebrate its 150th anniversary, and Corky has been asked to direct a play starring some of the town's residents, to illustrate Blaine's history. Cue Eugene Levy as the town's Jewish dentist, and Fred Willard and Catharine O'Hara as the town's travel agents, who each think that they are better actors than their chosen professions. Include an old-timer and a young mechanic, plus a girl who works at the local fast food restaurant, and you've got a bunch of actors who dream of appearing on Broadway. And when Corky gets a telegram to say that New York talent-spotter Mr Guffman will be in town, the stage is set. The first part of the film concentrates on interviews with the cast, the town dignitaries, and Corky and the musical director, the second part is the show itself. And what a show. You have to see it to believe it...
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