For My Consideration

For Your Consideration is ANOTHER one of those Christopher Guest films, but this one isn't about music. And it's just as good as the other ones.

Since Best In Show in 2000, Guest has released Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. Neither are as good as Best In Show. I actually prefer Best In Show to Spinal Tap, I think it has less drivel in between the comedy. I haven't seen Waiting For Guffman but I'm blatantly going to buy it tomorrow. Along with The Princess Bride (he was in it.)

For Your Consideration is a drift away from his famed 'mockumentaries' but it still has the same improvisation and cast as many of the others. It was co-written with Jim's Dad, I mean Eugene Levy. It focusses on the set of Home For Purim, a jewish film tackling lesbianism and death, which recieves Oscar buzz for the acting performances. The title itself comes from the header used in articles by movie and entertainment magazines in which they write about a film they feel should be considered by Academy Award panels.

The film is good and funny and improvised, and has a lot of the cast reprising similar roles to the ones they always play. Parker Posey is neurotic, Jennifer Coolidge is thick, Eugene Levy is a fool. It adds nothing to this series of films, but also takes nothing away. It does add Ricky Gervais playing Ricky Gervais, I suppose. Mr 'I won't do Hollywood...unless it's for Christopher Guest, but now I'm in loads.'

Anyway, I haven't got much to say about it. If you like Christopher Guest, add another notch to the funny post. If you don't, you'll probably wonder what the fuck Kevin McAllister's Mom and Jim's Dad are doing.