Another hilarious, mostly improvised comedy from the folks who brought you "Waiting for Guffman" and "A Mighty Wind", BEST IN SHOW brings together a wacky bunch of characters for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show.
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are Gerry and Cookie Fleck, an odd couple with bookish Gerry and vivacious Cookie, whose past seems to catch up with her everywhere she goes.
Amorous men approach her everywhere as former "clients" and Levy's facial ticks and reactions are fall over funny, this guy can work an expression.
Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock are Meg & Hamilton Swan, the most over-protective pet lovers in history. Their emotional drama escalates hilariously throughout as they helicopter-parent their pet.
Michael McKean plays Stefan Vanderhoof, whose partner Scott is played with LOL flamboyance by John Michael Higgins.
Director Christopher Guest plays country boy Harlan Pepper, who might have a thing or two to teach city folks about their pets.
Round out the cast with Jane Lynch and Jennifer Coolidge and their giant poodle alongside Fred Willard as the side-splittingly funny horrible television announcer for the Dog Show and you have a winner.
This entire cast is genius at improv and playing off each other to great effect. We meet each of them and follow them through the show in the spirit of a documentary.
More laughs than you can count + characters you grow to really care about, in the hands of a very clever cast.
Fred Williard alone is funnier than most current "comedies".
This really is Best In Show as one of the best comedies of the 2000's. Voted by Premiere Magazine as one of the 50 best comedies of all time; hard to argue when you are laughing this hard! Blue Ribbons and an A.
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