CcZ
Feb 2003
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 Review: A Mighty Wind w/Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, etc.
Nothing can match Guest's team's skills when it comes to improv. This movie is a mockumentary about FOLK MUSIC. I had no idea on what to expect going into the theatre this evening. I did know it would be clever and funny. And it was. You can't go wrong on this one, you will have a helluva lot of fun. I didn't see one mad/angry/or even disappointed person in the crowd.
*Spoiler Warning--er...I guess*
The movie starts out with this guy named Irving Steinbloom having died; Irving Steinbloom was a so called "legendary folk music producer." In an effort to recognize his life, his "neat freak" son, Jonathan, tries to get some of the groups his father produced back together for a concert in New York at Town Hall. It doesn't stop there though, as the public television station is going to capture it, LIVE, by satelite! As the Swedish Jew who constantly uses Yiddish with words like schmatta, schmidt, borschit, and more says: "We'll be lucky if we get even close to 2000 viewers."
So the groups get together: including The Folksman (with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer), The New Main Street Singers (with Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, etc...) and the funniest of the bunch, Mitch and Mickey. (Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara) To mention some of the few acts, well, it's full of sex jokes between the members, including Mr. Boner's wife in porn films (I learned to play the eukaleylie for my last short film), and we have Mickey's husband making pooper congestion protectors and is obsessed with model trains. Also, Mitch (Eugene Levy) turns into a gone mad man after his breakup with Mickey in the 60's, and we have Fred Williard (the announcer from best in show) as once again, a clueless, self-centered, hilarious idiot who's sitcom "Whaaaaa Happeneed" got cancelled, as the manager of The New Main Street Singers. We have Stifler's mom in American Pie (Jennifer Coolidge) playing a big breasted idiot who with another idiot, make up the Public Relations Duo publicizing the concert. She says things like "Me and the other guy make, *Stutters* make up for dis, dis one brain in general, you know? It's like we two brains in one and work together." and "If it wasn't for the kids model train, we woulda never had the grown up train!"
Oh god, there's so much more, and it will all come back to me tonight, as I just got back from laughing my ass off. To sum things up, I'll say: 25 laughs per minute, guarenteed!
Is it Spinal Tap? Nah, it's different. They're both great.
Is it one of the better comedies this year? Probably the best I.M.O, or at least one of the top 5.
Does it match Best in Show/Waiting for Guffman? To me, it was even better. Like I said, everyone enjoyed it, but the thing most people talked about after the show besides the funniest of the funny was about which of the Guest/Levy movies they liked better. Everyone differed. The younger kids liked Spinal Tap and this best. The adults didn't cherish Spinal Tap like the 18-25 range, but liked Waiting for Guffman best. Personally, I like them all.
It's a comedy, and a fuckin great one. 9 out of 10. I highly recommend.
Last edited by CcZ on 04-27-2003 at 05:24 AM
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