For Your Consideration is a film within a film. The story focuses on a film crew making a drama called Home For Purim. After three of the main stars of the film find out that they could be nominated for Oscars for their performances in the film their worlds turn completely around and soon they are getting tons of media coverage and are preparing for the big day. The film is a satire of Hollywood and the entertainment industry. For Your Consideration is from director and co-writer Christopher Guest who has given us such great films as Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind and he also co-wrote the cult classic This Is Spinal Tap. After being a fan of his works and all the films I just mentioned, I must admit that I was very disappointed with this movie. For one thing it never really made me laugh. There were one or two jokes that made me laugh a little, but for the most part I found the humour to be too flat and all of the jokes were not that funny or as witty as they should be. The film lacks the brilliant satire and a lot of the great improvising and dialog that usually make the Christopher Guest movies great. The acting was pretty good at times in this movie, but at other times I felt sometimes that the cast kind of overplayed their parts and got to the point where the characters didn't become believable anymore and at times even though they were overplayed they managed to become kind of boring. This film just did not work for me and for the whole I think most Guest fans will be disappointed by this film seeing as it lacks all the humour and wit of his earlier movies. This wasn't a terrible movie by any means, but it did not work for me and after awhile I just stopped caring about this film.
Review of For Your Consideration
