As a big fan of Christopher Guest, I must say I think it might be time to move on to a different style of movie. The last couple, but esp. this one, have been real snorers. I hate to criticize someone trying to make a movie today without violence, meaness, gratuitous sex, ect. , but this was just not funny enough to pull it off. If you want to see a Guest movie go back and see 'Best in Show' again.… Expand

Plays to the cheap seats throughout. Thoroughly predictable, no real insight (and thus, no satirical bite). A couple smirk-inducing moments here and there. Time to retool, Mr. Guest, you've been coasting on goodwill for quite some time now.

Terribly disapointing. Boring, boring, boring.

As others have said, this movie was a crashing disappointment. Not even close to any other Guest film, and really, not even funny at all. Gervais especially deserves better.

Hysterical. Catherine O' Hara is brilliant, and Jennifer Coolidge...oh my God! Not sure this will play in Peoria, but people with a connection to "the business" will be howling in the aisles. Fred Willard's "Access Hollywood" parody alone is worth the price of admission! Scarily true, scathing yet humane, "For Your Consideration" is not to be missed.

Much less than previous efforts. save it for dvd.

“For Your Consideration” was directed by Christopher Guest and co-written by Mr. Guest and Eugene Levy, both of whom appear in the film together with Catherine O‘Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Bob Balaban and Fred Willard. This is the same ensemble and creativity that brought us “Spinal Tap”, “Best in Show” and “The Mighty Wind”. Unfortunately, it’s hard to believe that this film has found its way into such a fine body of work. Where the prior films were clever, satirical and intensely funny, FYC has little of that. Instead, it is basically a one-joke plot, if you can call it that, and, for one hour and 36 minutes, manages to be almost boring. Yes, you can cull out and pick 3 or 4 humorous lines or events but that just isn’t enough to make the movie really funny or entertaining. Catherine O’Hara, for her part, does a fine job as only a skilled actress can do with a weak script but a strong talent. Fred Willard, too, is a personality who makes you laugh without really saying a word. Save these two, the film struggles to gain some momentum but never does. An otherwise 6 but with a few laughs to help, the film gets a 7.… Expand

I couldn't agree less with the negative user comments. As one who spent 25 years in show biz and finally escaped, I can attest to the fact that the characters and situations ring painfully, hilariously true. I can't imagine the Hollywood machine doing much to promote this film, as it skewers everything that is disingenuous, venal, and narcissistic about Hollywood with such pinpoint precision. Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Christopher Guest, and, of course, Jennifer Coolidge are sheer perfection. Hysterical.… Expand

While the first hour seemed a little light on laughs the final half hour more than compensated for it. Catherine O'hara had me laughing so hard I'd highly recommend it for this reason alone. They should have gave her an Oscar nomination. Yeah, she's that good.

First off, I am a HUGE Guest & co. fan. This movie is so close to being great, but there is one thing that brings it down a few dissappointing notches. The movie "Home For Purim" is horrible, and although many popular movies are rife with cheese, this is beyond soap-opera bad. If Home for Purim was closer to an actual bad movie, it would have played out much better. Otherwise, I thought all the actors had wonderful characters, and I agree that Catherine O'Hara deserves some "consideration" for her gutsy and flawless performance. It's not a wasted effort, just a misguided one. Better luck next time.… Expand

The latest in director Christopher Guest's trademark series of satiric miniatures of groups on the fringe of show business (community theater, dog competitions, folksinging groups), written by Guest and Eugene Levy and featuring a more or less ongoing repertory cast including but not limited to Guest, Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Parker Posey moves to the center of the showbiz spectrum and in doing so eschews some of the gentleness that Guest's films are normally known for--it really draws blood! The cast of a nice little independent movie, Home for Purim, catches wind of possible "Oscar buzz" for some of their performances (before the film is even in the can); the Academy bug bites them, they hit the campaign trail, and the results aren't pretty. They're occasionally not funny either, and to a degree I think that's intentional; Guest and Levy seamlessly incorporated pathos to their palette last time around in A Mighty Wind, in telling the story of divorced folkie duo Mitch and Mickey and the former's bouts with schizophrenia...and in For Your Consideration they add real anger. Their jabs at Entertainment Tonight, local and national talk shows and Ebert and Roeper wannabes is typically spot-on, and I especially relished their take on the "Weinsteinization" of indie filmmaking as the movie-within-a-movie's producers strongly encourage its makers to divest their work of certain elements that make it independent to begin with in order to increase its chances with Oscar voters and the public. (Fat chances they are, too; all this jockeying comes off as especially futile when you realize that the fictional Home for Purim or whatever it's calling itself this week for what it is--a well-intentioned chore to sit through that won't even reach the Top 40 in sales or rentals the first week it's released to DVD.) It's also notable that Willard's entertainment-news interviewer is a spiritual distant cousin of his gauche sportscaster in over his head in Best in Show, but while his character in that film was almost lovable, his antics here are so genuinely callous and loathsome that at certain points they even outrage his only slightly more ethical partner (Jane Lynch) almost as much as they do the audience! In one of those ironic cases of life imitating art a little more closely than anyone really wants, O'Hara memorably plays the unfortunately and inaccurately named Marilyn Hack, a shy actress who's especially affected and compromised by the Oscar campaigning game...and is receiving a lot of real-life Oscar talk for portraying her! (For hers, God's, and everyone else's sake, let's hope O'Hara is personally navigating this a lot better than her character does!) As certain reviewers and posters have already noted, For Your Consideration is slightly lighter on consistent belly laughs than most of Guest's other work (although this still places it considerably ahead of 85% of any other comedies currently playing or that randomly come to mind), and at times its observations on the publicity process and the cost it demands on those involved cut so deep that it's too painful to actually enjoy. But watching Guest's and Levy's normally benign, rather sweet-natured mini-genre actually snarl in rage for the first time is an event well worth watching...and so is a film about Hollywood that, at least in terms of its deeply cynical but sharply observed and highly accurate attitude toward it, can be comfortably mentioned in the same breath as Sunset Boulevard and The Player.… Expand

Aside from Catherine O'Hara's manic performance (and in a strange way Parker Posey's restrained role) this movie is flat, dull and spoken from an entertainer (Christoher Guest) who thinks he's sparkling funny and clever when, in fact, he's really dull and disconnected. Check out Altman's The Player - that's funny - and caustic, Yours is a movie without teeth.

I found myself waiting for that one great laugh that would have me struggling to keep quiet in the theater, but I never got that laugh. All I got was a few decent chuckles. But still, movie addicts like myself have been waiting for this kind of movie. The satire of a cinema industry obsessed with the awards season was awesome, almost perfect in its subtlety and edge. I hate what the Oscars and Globes have become, and this movie almost satisfies my lust for revenge. Unfortuanatly, the movie gets too caught up in trying to be ridiculous and distracts you from its point. Still, I got what it was saying, and whoever else did will undoubtably have a satisfied grin on their face as they watch. Oh, and the clips from other "movies" on the entertainment show were classic, especially the cop one.… Expand

This satire of Hollywood and the movie industry is very funny. The vanity and ruthlessness mix nicely as the characters devolve along with their fillm, "Home for Purim," which gets bought and released as "Home for Thanksgiving." Which also makes it a pretty potent satire of American cultural commercialism. Lots of laugh-out-loud moments. If you like this group's other movies, like Best In Show and Spinal Tap, you'll want to watch this one, too.… Expand

Not a mighty wind, just a gentle breeze. I remember going to see "Best in Show" with my teenage son, and both of us laughing our heads off. Only smiles, here -- still, lots of amusement and enjoyment for fans of the wry work of Guest & Co.

I think you may have to be Jewish to "get" much of the humor, especially in the first half of the movie. I thought this was comparable in quality to "Best in Show," and much better than the critically acclaimed, "A Mighty Wind," which I found to be sorely lacking.

A huge failure from a director and cast that have been brilliant (Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind). It didn't work this time- few laughs, even less insight. Forget this failed attempt and move on to the next one, which will hopefully return to form.

The music is never contemporary in many of Woody Allen films. "For Your Consideration" doesn't feel very contemporary either, on the studio lot, that is. It has the same time warp feel that many of late period-Allen films have. As for the fictional picture they're making, "Home for Purim" (when the film goes gentile, you can't help but think of Allen's change of pace film "Match Point"), its subversive element is similar to the otherwise throwback-to-another-era sort of film that slyly recalls a particular Todd Haynes-directed pic which was also small and generated a lot of Oscar buzz. "For Your Consideration" also makes reference to the prickly relationship between two 1983 Oscar-nominated actresses who were also generationally challenged like Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey), but goes about it in a roundabout fashion (the feud is between Webb and her co-star/boyfriend). "For Your Consideration" isn't a faux-documentary, but its parodies of celebrity culture-porn news shows like "Entertainment Tonight" and performance art (Webb's one-woman extravaganza) play like the genuine article.… Expand

Lazy plot. lazy directing. lazy jokes. i was completely bored to tears. guest's previous films are some of my favorites, but here he has completely bombed. aside from willard's antics and the transformation of catherine o hara's face during the film it was completely humorless. i can only imagine some of the above average reviews from critics are because they are in the industry and can relate. i felt as if most of the jokes were aimed at an over 55 demographic ( i.e the "interweb'). i must say guest's film is full of inside jokes that only he gets. i would reccomend to all to save their dollar and not see this in the theatre and to "consider" it for dvd. if you are a fan of guest cling to his older films and hope he gets back on track with his next effort.… Expand

Not as good as "Best In Show", funnier than "A Mighty Wind". Fred Willard and his haircut are as funy and inappropriate as ever. If you are a fan of Guest's other movies, you'll enjoy it. If you are a fan of the Wayans brothers and other dumbed-down, pandering, "mainstream" comedies, you will probably miss most of the comedy here.

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.… Expand

I love this guy's movie but this was way off. Not funny enough. Very disconnected.

When I heard Christopher Guest was making a movie about the "Oscar Buzz" surronding a small indie film using his usual enemble of actors, my anticipation went into overdrive and it pains me that I'm not rating this movie a 10. It just misses the mark on all counts. It seems like the basic story is stretched out to make room for all the regulars and it loses focus on the central characters. There are some laughs, and Jennifer Coolidge gets most of them, but I'm afraid the only Oscar Buzz for this movie is left in the movie.… Expand

What has happened to American cinema. This is easily on of the worst movies ever made. I cannot put into words how pathetic this film is. Save your time and money, and just stay home.

The entire moved felt like an inside joke that I was left out of. Unless you are in "the biz," the jokes ring hollow and are only jokes because of what the audience believes they think they know about movie productions. The characters are contrived and the plot seems too easy. I kept waiting for subtle bits of satire but just kept getting hit in the face with obvious jokes and cliches. Definitely not Guest's best work, and the final 1/3 of the movie saves what could have been a complete flop.… Expand