Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

SnoopyStyle Famed folk music producer Irving Steinbloom is dead and a memorial concert is organized by the Steinbloom kids to feature his three most famous acts; The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey.It's a Christopher Guest mockumentary without his usual big laughs. The characters are handled too gently. There is no edge to the material. It becomes the thing that it tries to mock which is a blend boring documentary of inconsequential matters. Also the stakes for the musicians don't seems to be that high. There is a desperation in Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show that is missing here. These musicians aren't desperate enough for this gig.

Marc Israel The Christopher Guest music "mockumentary" strikes again within the folk music genre. He, along with Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and company have written and played their own songs that are quite close to the cheesy originals they were based upon. Funny that many will downgrade such a creation as it was supposed to be the music that was the base of the humor. Where performance can be funny (see "This Is Spinal Tap") the folk performances are a bit silly to start. If the music isn't legitimate, then the character based humor doesn't work and the characters are truly gems here. I may be the only one who found Eugene Levys' "Mitch" to be absolutely brilliant where others said he wasn't their cup of tea.... must not of hung around pretentious wanna be poet musicians! The PBS show is also brilliant with its silly drama that also is true to back stage dilemmas, a missing musician, other band set lists and caring about seeing another band perform. I have watched this movie a dozen times, but admit it may not be as delightful for everyone. The writing was so spot on that "when you put it that way, it's almost poetry. Almost."

blanche-2 Have to say, for me, that nothing will ever Christopher Guest's brilliant "Waiting for Guffman," but "A Mighty Wind" from 2003 is a fantastic mockumentary. I found it superior to "Best in Show."This time it's a faux documentary on the reunion of '60s folk singers at Town Hall as a tribute to a late concert producer, Irving Steinbloom, arranged by his son (Bob Balaban). The performers include Mitch & Mickey, The Folksmen, and The New Main Street Singers. The cast is made up of many of Christopher Guest's repertory company: Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey, Paul Dooley, and Paul Benedict; also Ed Begley Jr., Jane Lynch, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and John Michael Higgins.There are some hilarious moments, but the best thing about this film is how Guest and other composers and lyricists have captured the music, mind-blowingly authentic, as are the groups. Everyone is terrific. Some standouts are: Ed Begley as Lars Olfen, using a Yiddish phrase or word several times a sentence; Catherine O'Hara as the Mickey of Mitch & Mickey, and her nearly brain-dead partner (Levy); and Jane Lynch and John Michael Higgins, an out-there couple who worship color. Balaban underplays and makes his role as the organizing son of the late, great Steinbloom totally believable and documentary-like.If you haven't seen this, check it out, and remember (from the song "Old Joe's Place") Well…..there's a puppy in the parlor, And skillet on the stove, And a smelly old blanket, With a Navajo wove, There's a chicken on the table, But you got to say grace, There's always something cooking at, Old Joe's Place.And at Christopher Guest's.

zaid-adham Though I might not understand folk music as much as I do the world of rock or heavy metal as so perfectly committed in mockumentary form in This Is Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest and co have failed to get the same reaction out of me in this film, neither in concept nor in execution. Concept-wise, the film would work but it seems that the story could have benefited from the direction of someone else other than Christopher Guest, who doesn't manage to pull off the mockumentary look (or flow) like Rob Reiner or others before him have done.Over-acting on the part of several players (most prominently Eugene Levy and Fred Willard) really sold this as a terrible mockery of the mockumentary genre. The plot was lost in the attempt to film this as a mockumentary and so the film loses its ability to define itself much like most of the folk singers are incapable of dealing with the loss of their identities in the latter parts of their lives after the folk sensation died down.This one gave too much away, the only way I didn't recognize This Is Spinal Tap as a real documentary in its realism was the appearance of Fran Drescher. Definitely a weak movie, this one.