You cannot watch 'Confetti' and not think of 'Best in Show' and 'Waiting for Guffman'. Comparisons are inevitable. And reading the user comments on IMDb, you just know the relatives of the UK cast and crew REALLY want this to be a success. But hoping isn't enough. The effort behind this movie was noble, and the result OK, but truthfully, not great. Not all wishes are granted! Better luck next time.
'Confetti' has some admirable characteristics--- such as the straight-faced realism of the nudists, for example. But, sadly, it simply lacks something that the Christopher Guest movies had. Dunno what it is... but an analogy might help. 'Confetti' would be like sitting in a shallow and tepid swimming pool. OK; not bad, but so what? 'Best in Show', on the other hand, would be like being dashed away downstream in a powerful river current. Or something like that. Guest's stuff (co-written, some of it, with Eugene Levy, of course) was not just notes on a page, it was music.
Basically, the plot of 'Confetti' involved a British bride-to-be magazine, called Confetti. They stage a PR stunt wherein couples compete for the wackiest theme wedding, with the prize being a new house. The three finalists are the tennis couple, the naked couple, and the Broadway musical couple. Somehow, the three couples don't do enough with their assigned thematic eccentricities. That is, the naked couple is just naked. Nothing else actually happens about any of that--- nobody's bits go astry, no joke lines are developed--- well, nothing happens. The tennis couple is just plain annoying. The tennis chick is a fairly blatant attempt to mimic the Parker Posey characters from the Christopher Guest movies. The tennis guy is just plain annoying--- so much so that I'm sure many audience members just wanted to go find the actor, take him out back, and beat the s*** out of him. But I guess that's good acting though??? The Broadway musical couple is nice enough--- but they, too, do nothing. No fancy is taken with the songs, the music, or any of the potential themes that could be given comedic mileage here.
Soooooo, this isn't a BAD movie. But it is not in any way a good movie, either. It is too derivative (of the Christopher Guest/Eugene Levy series), too timid, too lame. It is not really a British version of the Guest work--- rather, it is a British START on maybe sometime possibly in the future doing something perhaps sort of like the Guest stuff, might be maybe. And that is not nearly enough to book a cinema and run this film for.
'Confetti' has some admirable characteristics--- such as the straight-faced realism of the nudists, for example. But, sadly, it simply lacks something that the Christopher Guest movies had. Dunno what it is... but an analogy might help. 'Confetti' would be like sitting in a shallow and tepid swimming pool. OK; not bad, but so what? 'Best in Show', on the other hand, would be like being dashed away downstream in a powerful river current. Or something like that. Guest's stuff (co-written, some of it, with Eugene Levy, of course) was not just notes on a page, it was music.
Basically, the plot of 'Confetti' involved a British bride-to-be magazine, called Confetti. They stage a PR stunt wherein couples compete for the wackiest theme wedding, with the prize being a new house. The three finalists are the tennis couple, the naked couple, and the Broadway musical couple. Somehow, the three couples don't do enough with their assigned thematic eccentricities. That is, the naked couple is just naked. Nothing else actually happens about any of that--- nobody's bits go astry, no joke lines are developed--- well, nothing happens. The tennis couple is just plain annoying. The tennis chick is a fairly blatant attempt to mimic the Parker Posey characters from the Christopher Guest movies. The tennis guy is just plain annoying--- so much so that I'm sure many audience members just wanted to go find the actor, take him out back, and beat the s*** out of him. But I guess that's good acting though??? The Broadway musical couple is nice enough--- but they, too, do nothing. No fancy is taken with the songs, the music, or any of the potential themes that could be given comedic mileage here.
Soooooo, this isn't a BAD movie. But it is not in any way a good movie, either. It is too derivative (of the Christopher Guest/Eugene Levy series), too timid, too lame. It is not really a British version of the Guest work--- rather, it is a British START on maybe sometime possibly in the future doing something perhaps sort of like the Guest stuff, might be maybe. And that is not nearly enough to book a cinema and run this film for.