Christopher Guest: Great in Spinal Tap!.... not so great in Waiting For Guffman. In the film (which Guest directed and co-wrote) he stars as the effiminate drama coach that is destined to put the town of Blair on the map. He whips together a team of non-actors in an effort to make a show that will fulfill his dream of going to Broadway. That's pretty much the size of the plot. It's a lackluster mockumentary that will leave you feeling like you have wasted almost two hours of your life away. David Cross cameos as a nerdy cropcircle researcher that swears that an alien spaceship has come to the town and that the small cropcircle he studies each day is too eerie to be explained by science. That two minute segment of the film is about as good as it gets... which doesn't say all that much on account of the segment not being all that funny. I just like the presense of Cross in movies. Even if his part isn't that funny, just him being there kind of makes it funny. Skip this movie.
2 stars
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