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Limited Release: Sep 29, 2000; Rated: PG-13; Length: 89 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock and Eugene Levy...
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

Watching Christopher Guest's new mockumentary about the Mayflower dog show, you giggle every so often, but you never give yourself over to the characters, and that's because Guest hasn't discovered enough layers in them. He's reassembled most of the brilliant improvisational players from Waiting for Guffman, but this time they're cast as two-bit fruitcakes whose humorous soft center is the projection of their vanity onto their pooches (a rather unoriginal satiric flaw). As the vulgar announcer Buck Laughlin, Fred Willard has the slingshot zest that's missing from the rest of the movie. B-


Posted Oct 13, 2000
 

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