Best in Show

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⭐10/10

There is no way I can have a normal opinion about this movie. Jess recommended it as one to watch with an edible, and so while we were fairly zooted, we were pretty much dying the entire runtime of this movie. It is a mockumentary about show dog handlers as they prepare for a big show, and they are predictably all deranged and ridiculous. 

It is a very, very strange movie with a sense of humor that is hard to describe. It felt very Tim Heidecker to me, lots of following strange people saying strange things, much of it presumably improvised. It opens with a couple in a therapy session talking about how their family dynamic has not been the same ever since their dog walked in on them having sex, and then it gets weirder and weirder from there. It features a ton of amazing names from Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey, to Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (once again) being the most dysfunctional couple ever recorded. It also features a Cam-and-Mitchell type couple which I always love, but my MVP was Fred Willard who comes in as the dog-show commentator who has apparently never been to a dog show, stealing the second act completely. 

Awesome movie that I would have a hard time recommending to just anyone. It takes a very specific sense of humour to like this kind of movie, but it aligned with me pretty well perfectly. 

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