not Guest's best
I'm a HUGE Christopher Guest fan--his mockumentaries are my favorite movies. I see them over and over, I see them opening day or week, I preorder them on DVD, my husband and I quote them to each other and make each other laugh silly. We adore them. I was disappointed in this movie, though. It's not done in mockumentary style, but in traditional third-person style. As a result, the viewer loses that irony that's so unique to Guest's usual style--the ability to see, through the intimate viewer-interviews-character, what the character consciously wants to present to the world, juxtaposed ironically with interspersed scenes of that character interacting with the very characters about whom he or she was just speaking or dealing with the very situations described during the interview. That's the beauty of his mockumentaries, but it's just absent here. Still a good movie with plenty of laughs, and of course the cast, writing, and premise are worth seeing, but definitely not my favorite.