Review of For Your Consideration (2006) by Johnny T — 25 Apr 2011

Funny? Yes. Revealing? No. By and large, the movie is content to offer amusing caricatures and leave it at that. Each and every character in Christopher Guest's latest hilarious cultural corrective is something inspiring to behold. But as rich a comic turf as the huge egos and even bigger neuroses of Hollywood types would seem, For Your Consideration always seems a bit too tame for its own good: It never busts out the way you hope it would. The movie does have its flashes of genius. "Home for Purim," the movie, is set in the Deep South, where Yiddish is spoken with a drawl. There are no belly laughs here, only rueful chortles about the confederacy of chuckleheads that calls itself the entertainment industry.

VERDICT: "Matinée" - (Mixed reaction). These kinds of movies are usually movies that had some good things, but some bad things kept it from being amazing. This rating says to pay matinée prices to see at a theatre, buy an ex rental or a cheap price of the DVD to own.