It's the sesquicentennial celebration for the small town of Blaine, Missouri. Former New Yorker Corky St.Clair (Christopher Guest) is putting on an amateur theater production of the town history using the wacky locals as the cast. Then Corky tells them about a Broadway theater critic Mort Guffman who is coming to see the opening of the show and jumps to the possibility of the show going to Broadway. Everybody starts dreaming big.
After Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest finally produce something just as funny in the improvisational genre. He has gathered around him an overwhelming comedic cast. The town folks are all horrible actors but I fall for them because they are just so sincere. There is a lovable charm about them. It's not about big slapstick gags. They do get some big laughs although different people will laugh at different things. It's about the actors finding humor in their characters' humanity and oddity.
After Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest finally produce something just as funny in the improvisational genre. He has gathered around him an overwhelming comedic cast. The town folks are all horrible actors but I fall for them because they are just so sincere. There is a lovable charm about them. It's not about big slapstick gags. They do get some big laughs although different people will laugh at different things. It's about the actors finding humor in their characters' humanity and oddity.