For Your Consideration

This latest Christopher Guest film is a bit over the top but it is still enjoyable to see this ensemble interact. The parody of entertainment shows is spot on. Michael McKean seems to be the best actor in the whole bunch by far. The daffy producer is hilariously moronic.

The best scenes are when the 3 actors don't receive their Oscar nominations. Each is home alone at 5 a.m. to suffer the indignity of dashed hope. It's a genuinely dramatic sequence in a comedy film. The fact that the least likely actor sleeps through his nomination-notifying phone call is telling.

All in all, it's worth seeing but not great.