Review of For Your Consideration (2006) by Antonh. — 10 Dec 2006

Definitely not as funny as anything Guest had done before, I really laughed out loud at almost every scene that involved Ricky Gervais. Unfortunately he doesn't enter the movie until the hour mark.

Each individual character could make you chuckle, but there were so many characters, and so many plots, that you were really having to sketch the movie together. Catherine O'Hara really got to have a meaty part, and she ripped into it.

Her last scene with Fred Williard is hysterical. Parker Posey was wasted in this movie. I think that she is one of the funniest actors working right now, and here she doesn't really get to do anything until the end, which is funny in a bizarre way.

I got the feeling that some of the actors resorted to doing things that they had done in other movies to generate laughs. Compared to a lot of the garbage out there that is supposed to be funny, this is funny.

But when you are Guest and Levy, and the work that you've done is as good as theirs has been, this is a step below par.