“Best in Show” is a funny, dry humored mockumentary based on the participants of a dog show. The film is cast with a plethora of underground, and some who since have become mainstream comics and actors who to my knowledge took a bare bones script and turned it into a somewhat improvised realistic comedic dialogue. What I found to be the most appealing part of the movie was that all different stereotypes of people are represented in a scenario where they take themselves too seriously and the viewer is given a chance to poke fun at the eccentricities of seemingly everyday normal people.
Such stereotypes of people represented in”Best in Show” are a redneck, a gold digger and her lesbian counterpart, a yuppie couple, a nerd and his wife who seems to have gotten around, and an over the top gay couple from New York. If you can appreciate the weirdness of “ordinary” people being poked fun at then this film is for you. The witty back and forth dialogue keeps the movie going and although it isn’t really laugh out loud funny, if you have a sense of humor you will find yourself snickering the whole way through. I mean really who can’t appreciate making fun of the yuppie couple who met at Starbucks, is seemingly perfect but after closer inspection we realize they are both insane! The beautiful thing about this movie is how the exaggerated stereotypes are carried out, but the director and the actors still keep them close enough to home that with more than just a few of the characters I’m sure you can think of somebody who they remind you of.
The settings used are also great, realistic plasticky Florida houses, a fly fishing shop in nowheres-ville redneck land, even the un-glorious hotel the participants stay at in anticipation of their years culmination is scarily, realistically appropriate. If you are a weirdo, and you might not know it until you watch something like this or a film similar, you may not find this too funny as it may hit a little too close to home! What better way to find out if your a freak than to give it a shot. I recommend this film to anyone with a dry, quirky, sense of humor, and also to anyone not sure of their level of creepiness to check it out and see how well they can relate!
