(rated PG-13, 92 mins.)
When folk icon, Irving Steinbloom dies, a group of wacky folk singers reunite for a memorial, in this mockumentary follow-up to Christopher Guest’s “Best In Show” (with the same actors back together for the fist time, again). With just two weeks to rehearse for this grand event, it’s a walk down memory lane with everything from turtleneck ‘dickies’ to Starfish cruise lines, from town halls to juvenile halls. The Main Street Players (helmed by the same couple that were the lesbian dog trainer and the gay Schitzu owner in the last movie) have to be better than their competition Mitch (Eugene Levy) and Mickey (Catherine O’Hara), a Carpenters meet Peter, Paul and Mary duo. While the story has the same laid back pacing and dead-on characters, having seen “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show”, Parker Posey is underused here as a color-coordinated neuftet while Levy’s character seems forced and underdeveloped despite having his usual dry-humor delivery. His “Best In Show” character with “two left feet” was much funnier, but never the less, this movie is the same laugh-out-loud hoot, you’d expect.