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I’m a great fan of Christopher Guest’s “mocumentaries” and I enjoyed his latest: For Your Consideration, but while it has some hilarious moments it is not as consistently funny as some of his earlier works such as Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman.

Part of the problem may be that by setting the story in Hollywood and making it about professional actors and filmmakers he has aimed too close to home. The characters sometimes seem a bit too real and we feel their pain a bit too much, so that we are tempted to cry with them instead of laughing at them. And this isn’t supposed to be that sort of movie.
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