To me, this movie is perfection.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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.

Christopher Guest and his ad-libbing ensemble take aim at folk music in this mockumentary about a folk music festival."Best in Show" was a diluted and less funny product of the same formula that made "Waiting for Guffman" such a comedy classic, and "A Mighty Wind" dilutes the formula even more. There's not much to remember about this film other than the Academy Award-nominated song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," a lovely little tune sung in the film by Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, a married folk act who have found themselves drifting apart from each other over the years. The storyline might have had some real dramatic potential, but it's buried underneath all of the other narrative threads and Guest's determination to keep his film glib and inconsequential.Grade: C

An easy-going and pleasant comedy. Folk music isn't so much the target of Guest/Levy's satire as the documentary form (I felt The Last Waltz well and truly lampooned here). I also like the discreet way in which the passing of time from the folk heyday is marked. Sex is a licit topic of open discussion for many of the protagonists, though it seems odd or clunky to modern characters' sensibility. There's also a wonderful written set piece in which the term "nowtro" replaces retro (don't ask, just watch).That said, I felt that the film was probably a bit underwritten, relying on the technical aptitude of the cast (which is assured). Either the manner in which characters behave towards one another is based on their histories - in which case there's not quite enough backstory - or the idea is to create vignettes of artistic caprice based soley in the present, in which case it felt undercooked.Nonetheless, and in no small measure to a beautifully composed and performed digetic soundtrack, the film is celebratory. An easily overlooked wholesomeness to 60s American music history is well-honoured. 5/10

This is THE worst movie I or anyone else I know has EVER seen. I almost slept through it. It was extremely boring and fake. I'd give a negative rating but that's impossible. This movie is the worst movie you will ever see. I think everyone else slept through the small part we saw. This movie was a total waste of time, and it made me never want to see a "mockumentary" again. You should get paid to see this horrible movie. It did get better for about two minutes, but then it got even worse. After wasting an hour which felt like ten million on this movie, I didn't want to see any more of it. I stress again, do not see this movie unless you want to watch a movie so bad you can sleep right through it....