Mascots
Mascots is a mockumentary directed by Christopher Guest, in which sports mascots reveal the peculiarities of their ultra-competitive world as they pursue the highest honor in their field: the Gold Fluffy.
16 September 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 November 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14 July 1960, Dolton, Illinois, USA
21 August 1975, Casablanca, Morocco
30 January 1966, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
29 October 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
10 November 1983, Webster, New York, USA
23 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 April 1956, Rochester, Kent, England, UK
13 January 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 November 1968, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
October 19, 2016
Goofy Christopher Guest faux docu has sex, bawdy language.
October 17, 2016
Guest never wanders too far from his comedic safe zone: He is a master at finding humor in how seriously we take ourselves. But no one is complaining.
October 12, 2016
Although "Mascots" is neither as funny nor as satirically acute as its forerunner, it would be churlish to complain too loudly.
October 19, 2016
It's kind of dull, it gets duller as it goes, and you start to think of ways it could have been funnier.
November 09, 2016
The jokes do not always land, but Guest's affection for this gang of misfits elevates this above the simple exercise of shooting fish in a barrel.
January 01, 2017
There's a deep hollowness under the funny suit.
October 13, 2016
Mascots is determinedly minor-league. But like the bruschetta- and anchovy-scented cups sold at the event for male mascots to stuff into their costumes, it's offbeat and refreshing nonetheless.
October 31, 2016
Mascots coasts along on the strength of its actors (Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, and John Michael Higgins all show up) and the charm that is a mainstay of all Guest mockumentaries, regardless of quality.
October 14, 2016
After a long break from this style of feature-length comedy, Guest returns more indifferent than ever -- his creative batteries haven't been recharged, they've been removed.
October 13, 2016
The only thing Mascots has to be is laugh-out-loud funny, and yet, most of the time, the only things it elicits are reflexive chuckles and a sense of creeping boredom.
October 14, 2016
It's awfully funny.
October 13, 2016
As hard as it is to admit, Guest's once-incisive satirical bite has grown dull in its familiarity. He doesn't seem to be having as much fun here and neither are we.
