MOVIE CONSENSUS As the object of satire gets bigger the jokes become thinner, and Christopher Guest isn’t as droll or insightful here than when he was lampooning smaller subjects.
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Arch satirist Christopher Guest (THIS IS SPINAL TAP, BEST IN SHOW) brings more mirth to the screen, providing an inimitable take on the film industry with FOR YOUR HOME FOR PURIM, which is directed by Jay Berman (played by Guest himself) and stars an aging actress at the end of her career, Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara); an actor best known for starring in a hotdog ad, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer); and young Callie Webb (Parker Posey), who is trying to put her VAGINA MONOLOGUES-esque past (in a production called NO PENIS INTENDED) firmly behind her. more...
MPAA RATING PG-13, for sexual references and brief language.
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Although For Your Consideration works okay overall, and parts of it are very funny, it somehow lacks the spark that elevated Guest's earlier films from mere comedy to comedic brilliance ...
All of the in-joke humor is so inside that some gags will likely go over heads of audience members. And the rest of the audience may feel the jokes just aren't that funny.
If there were any justice in the world of movies, the film's distributor would gather up all copies of For Your Consideration before it hits theaters and burn them.
For Your Consideration, though uneven, is still chockfull of the low-key charm, smart performances and understated humor that are [Christopher] Guest’s hallmarks.
The problems with Home for Purim are the same for For Your Consideration. The performances are so lost that even the talented cast can't make sense of them. They rely way too much on funny hair.
The set up for the movie is full of comic potential, but the execution kills it deader than Mel Gibson's plans to make the story of Hanukkah into a movie.
Funny, biting, cutting and satirical %u2026 but there are fewer laughs than expected; more likely to appeal to cult audiences interested in film industry in-jokes.
Everyone's entitled to a slump, and this is only the first blah film in five for Guest (if we count This is Spinal Tap, which he stars in and wrote with McKean, Shearer and Rob Reiner).
although it doesn't have as much of an edge as their previous efforts and some of the material is not particularly fresh, the results are often hilarious.
Guest and Levy stick it good to the dark heart of showbiz, daring to suggest that the Oscar fever on which Hollywood thrives is a sickness of the soul.
Truly, the level of tender, ruthless, inspired, lethally accurate study that has gone into the follicular expression of each and every character in Christopher Guest's latest hilarious cultural corrective is something inspiring to behold.
You have to admire the economy of Guest's work, his ability to work on a small scale and his deadpan skill at keeping his actors on the emotional reservation -- calmly facing down emotional chaos.
By now Christopher Guest's brand of satire has become so formulaic that it hardly matters that he disposes with the pseudodocumentary format this time.
Jane Lynch does a stance, a television hostess stance that’s so perfect, without saying a word, that’s funnier than almost anything I’ve seen in most mainstream comedies this year.
Individual scenes come across as amusing, but Guest loses comic momentum when he shifts between the shooting of the lachrymose Home for Purim and the segments lampooning entertainment media.
Although it scores some easy laughs, Guest’s latest is a disappointment.
Easily the funniest film I’ve seen this year. DON’T MISS IT.
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