For Your Consideration (2006)
#33 in my 2007 movie challenge was For Your Consideration, the latest, and lamest, of Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, this one about the cast of a small film that begins to get Oscar buzz. Perhaps an insider would find it more funny, but I laughed only twice: at Michael McKean’s “We don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We’d have a wet and critically injured baby!” and Fred Willard’s mispronunciation of the word gamut in the deleted scenes. Catherine O’Hara gives a cringe-worthy and heartbreaking performance as a long-time character actor, but that wasn’t the tone I was looking for when I selected this movie. I think Guest had real gems with Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show. With FYC and A Mighty Wind, though, I think the hit or miss humor is weighing heavily toward the latter.