Movie Review: For Your Consideration

For your consideration is from the crew who did Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show and A Mighty Wind amongst others, and is about the cast of a crappy film becoming convinced that they are going to be nominated for an oscar.

There's lots to like here. Christopher guest (who directs) plays the director of "Home For Purim" a film so ridiculuously bad, the jewish family in it are depicted with deep south accents and the plot involves the return of a family including a war scarred son and lesbian daughter to the family fold when their mother is taken sick. This is of course, a blatant oscar baiting plot if ever I heard one.

It's also considerably more vicious and dark than the other ones by this little troupe of improvisational comedians, since almost no character has any sympathetic qualities to speak of and, unlike the idiots in Spinal Tap, actually understand what's going on instead of being totally oblivious to the reality of the situation.

Even the usually silly performance from comedy genius Fred Willard is one of snide points scoring evil poisonm tounged jackass entertainment TV presenter.

And this is the films main problem and for me downfall, while it is certainly fun, it just isn't as much fun as Break Like The Wind or Best In Show, let alone Spinal Tap, and despite the welcome turn from Ricky Gervais (yes, he plays himself again) it is still not enough to be worth watching as frequently as those oldies.

I don't you to think I didn't enjoy it, because I did and you will to, just don't exoect to want to watch it repeatedly like you may do with Spinal Tap.

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