Best in Show (2000)
3/10
Cruel humor
2 August 2001
Most of my friends raved about this one but it left me feeling miserable. The humor is uniformly cruel and juvenile -- like one long Seinfeld episode. Some well-travelled comedians (Michael McKean, Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara, etc.) who have made careers of playing stupid people and have no love for the characters they essay at all.

What the viewer is left with are obnoxious and aggressive vulgarians acting like the cheapest stereotype of pet people you'd ever want to see. Offbeat for offbeat's sake is not greatness. And snide derision is not humor.

Admittedly, there were three or four clever bits, but the whole thing was so mean-spirited, it was not enjoyable to me.
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