Best In Show: Critic Reviews

The rather unoriginal satiric flaw becomes obvious, in most cases, within 30 seconds, the film has little to do but repeat the same giant bull's eye gags over and over again.

Best in Show is essentially a well-organized, exquisitely nuanced skit comedy.

This giggle does for dog shows what ... Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap did for heavy metal.

I enjoyed Best in Show... But I didn't laugh as hard as I did during Guest's previous comedies, This Is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman.

The actors' ad-libbed responses, along with their amateurish reactions to the ever-present camera, are more forlorn than comedic.

[Fred Willard's] a one-man storm of escalating inanity, and he's hilarious.

It's funny.

The movie is light as a lap dog, and often just as lovable.

It creates one comic character for the ages: Guffman veteran Fred Willard as addled, veteran, loose-lipped, sex-obsessed sports TV commentator Buck Laughlin.

You come away wishing that Guest could deliver a new mockumentary not every so often but every year.

I was laughing so hard, tears were streaming down my cheeks.

Improv comedy rarely makes it onto the big screen. And when it does so as hilariously as it does in Best in Show ... that is certainly cause for celebration.

...it's always a pleasure to watch this ensemble of gifted talents do what they do best -- be spontaneous and funny and surprising. What we get is a master-class demonstration of the distinction between comic actors and comedians who try to act.

Guest is good at revealing his characters bit by bit.

Hilarious and offbeat but humor is pretty grownup.

The real pedigree doesn't even arrive until halfway through. Fred Willard's unforgettable dim-bulb commentator takes aim at TV's injection of "sports drama" into competitions where, quite simply, there is none. (Here's looking at you, Joe Garagiola.)

This fringe milieu is inhabited with all sorts of eccentric characters to wring laughs from.

Guest e sua trupe sempre conseguem divertir com seus mockumentaries, mas este longa, ainda que pontualmente brilhante, encontra-se entre os mais frageis da filmografia atipica do cineasta.

The movie gets its laughs by letting its people talk and reveal themselves unconsciously.

... an excellent example of how funny a movie can be by observing human nature honestly, at its brilliant best and miserable worst.

Call it a mockumentary or a dogumentary, Christopher Guest's latest spoof is a very funny, improvised comedy about the world of dog shows.

Doesn't live up to its pedigree.

Best in Show is the sort of film that seems most fairly judged by how often it makes you laugh, and by that standard, I was well satisfied.

Guest shot nearly 60 hours of footage for Best In Show and the results are so good that they'll leave you starving for the scraps from the cutting room floor.

It's ... a great movie.