Best in Show is a scathing attack against, of all people, Dog Show freaks. This movie has generally the same appeal as the Jerry Springer show, that is that you feel generally superior to everyone in the film. The film follows several sets of characters as they are heading to the Mayflower Dog Show with their dogs who are treated like doggie rock stars.

Each character has some obviously skewed perceptions of the world, all which place just a bit too much emphasis on the importance of puppies, which gives all of these characters differing levels of disfunction. The movie has some moment of humor, but mostly it's just pointing fingers and laughing at stereotypes of all different walks of life. From the loud and proud homosexual couple, to the redneck, to the lesbians in denial, to the married couple who suffer from the fact that the wife slept with EVERYONE before they were married, to the absolute most annoying Yuppie couple who met at Starbucks. In fact, the character you feel the most liking for is Fred Willard as the announcer who doesn't know anything about Dog shows, and is obviously annoying the co-host who's life is obviously in dogs.

Best in Show suffers from a Saturday night live type of improv skit style, the film is a mock documentary and it seems obvious that the actors were given their characters and told to improv them to be the most outrageous possible. The film does succeed in some areas in making the characters so nuts that they are humorous to the point of sadness, but the best types of humor does not poke fun at people for their shortcomings, and in this regard it seems to be the only way we find laughs in the movie.

The film is humorous at times, but more often annoying and petty. There does not seem to be much progression in the film, and rather than tying all the characters together through the film, they seem to have no interconnection with each other. The film seems to suffer from a lack of continuity and it ends as abruptly as it begins. Although it is entertaining at points, I would not recommend it to most and give it only a 2 out of 5 stars. Rent it only if you are completly out of other movies to see.

Recommended:
No

Viewing Format: VHS
Video Occasion: None of the Above
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older