Sunday, April 1, 2007

For Your Consideration (2006)

dir. Christopher Guest
Viewed on 2007-04-01
Rating: 4

Parts were funny--some lines here and there. Mostly this film was painfully unfunny, though. I don't know what went wrong: The same cast and creative talent that made Best in Show and A Mighty Wind somehow fired a blank. It could be that Guest and co. made a mistake by foregoing the mockumentary format in favor of a more conventional style. Really, though, most of the jokes just plain fell flat, and making fun of insipid Hollywood types and Hollywood hype is too easy. It comes off as too believable, and therefore tests my patience in the same way as the actual Hollywood tripe.

I think, too, that I was a little prejudiced by having very recently seen the David O. Russell v. Lily Tomlin videos, which are a far more insightful and entertaining look at Hollywood moviemaking than For Your Consideration. Watch those instead.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

definitely not a must-see within the C. Guest canon -- the franchise is aging (and hence deteriorating), along with its principals. fred willard is hilarious as usual though.