Best in Show follows a clutch of dog owners as they prepare and preen their dogs to win a national competition. Directed by Raja Gosnell. The film begins with a mockumentary style, introducing the main competitors (not to mention screwballs) of the annual Mayflower "Best In Show" competition, where dogs of all breeds come to compete to see who is the top dog. With Will Arnett, Ludacris, Natasha Lyonne, Stanley Tucci. Like many of Willard’s best characters, Laughlin is a buffoon without even a tiny shred of self-awareness. But some of those movies make up the classics. Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening. Best in Show Christopher Guest, the man behind Waiting for Guffman, turns his comic eye on another little world that takes itself a bit too seriously: the world of competitive dog shows. The simple premise behind this film is a dog show (in America of course), a dog show much like the famous British dog show Crufts. Don’t call it a “mockumentary.” Best in Show, Christopher Guest’s brilliant canine comedy that turned 20 this month, is many things — an eternally funny send-up of American dog shows, a perfect vehicle for the late, great Fred Willard, the film that cemented Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara’s strangely enduring knack for playing a married couple. "Best in Show" is, without a doubt, the best comedy of 2000. Dogs: Man’s best friend, movie’s most endangered hero. Seriously, how many times have we gone into a dog movie hoping we didn’t just get suckered into another one where the dog dies in the end? 'Best In Show' is best described as a mockumentary, a mixture of film, non scipted dialogues aimed to achieve the authentic documentary style we familiarise with 'real tv.' The movie introduces several dogs and their owners, who are seen in their homes and then followed to the Mayflower Kennel Club's dog show, where a telecast of the event includes color commentary by Buck Laughlin (Fred Willard).Bearing certain points of similarity to Joe Garagiola, Buck is genial, chatty, weirdly misinformed and easily lost in the overgrown byways of his mind. Best in Show is a 2000 American mockumentary comedy film, a spoof on American dog shows, co-written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy and directed by Guest. Best in Show adds the additional layer of these people projecting their narratives about themselves onto their dogs: Meg and Hamilton Swan (Parker Posey and … In 2000, director and actor Christopher Guest released a movie that would later become a comedy classic about the quirkiness of the dog fancy. The film follows five entrants in a prestigious dog show, and focuses on the slightly surreal interactions among the various owners and handlers, as they travel to the show and then compete during the show.