Cook Off!

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Cook Off!

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2017,

1h 38m,

Comedy

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As a buffet of quirky contestants prepares for the renowned Van Rookle Farms Cooking Contest, the heat is on to win a $1 million prize. The filmmakers follow the contestants as the foodie media and celebrity judges descend on a hotel convention area to see which contestants rise, which ones fall, who will reveal their true nature, and who will find love with the contest's costumed Muffin Man mascot.

Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

Aug 23, 2018

Wafting into theaters after sitting on the back burner for the last decade, "Cook Off!" is a shrill, gloppy mess of a mockumentary being served up well past its "best before" date - if there ever actually were one.

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

Nov 18, 2017

Cook Off piles some better-than-this comedians into a culinary competition whose dishes look as unpalatable as the film itself.

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Nov 17, 2017

B+

All the ingredients for a tasty entertainment.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 5, 2020

3.0/4.0

Melissa McCarthy has what amounts to as an extended cameo.

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Amelie Lasker

FF2 Media

Aug 26, 2018

2.5/5

While the humor is overtly silly and light, I found some of it quite troubling.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Nov 18, 2017

... neither witty nor insightful in its comic observations, instead relying on low-brow gags and stereotypes out of desperation.

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Aug 19, 2018

This movie is the perfect example of talented comedians not being able to save a dumpster fire of a writing mess. Not everyone can do satire. In fact, most people can't. Comedy is the hardest genre to perfect and everyone has a personal taste, but this goes beyond that. This movie isn't so bad it's good either. It's just lazy writing. It's like the writers watched one Christopher Guest movie and decided it looked easy. Slap on a cameo from Melissa McCarthy (she must have owed someone a favor) and you have a winner...right?!?! Rethink your career, writers, because this was painful to watch.

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Poe S

Jul 26, 2018

As Christopher Guest knockoffs go, Cook Off! is neither bad enough to trash or good enough to recommend, but for a movie that was supposedly shelved for over a decade, it could have been a whole lot worse. Also, Melissa McCarthy is barely in it, which I consider a plus because I hate her.

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May 29, 2018

This is the worst movie I have ever seen... you would be fooled by the cast with how funny everyone is but you put them all in the same pot and this movie is what you get.. bad recipe

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Poe S

Apr 6, 2018

A HIdden Gem. Shot in the style of Waiting for Guffman but feels even more authentic, Cook Off! should be placed alongside the great mocumentaries. Completed in 2007, released in 2017, it needs to be seen by anyone who loves improv "reality".

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Theodore G

Mar 18, 2018

Very weird movie. Melissa McCarthy was not in this movie, despite appearing as the star. It was dumb and stupid, only slightly funny. Had HUGE potential but just fell flat.

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Abraham R

Feb 26, 2018

Too unscripted. Unfunny improv.

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Cathryn Michon

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Synopsis

As a buffet of quirky contestants prepares for the renowned Van Rookle Farms Cooking Contest, the heat is on to win a $1 million prize. The filmmakers follow the contestants as the foodie media and celebrity judges descend on a hotel convention area to see which contestants rise, which ones fall, who will reveal their true nature, and who will find love with the contest's costumed Muffin Man mascot.

Director: Guy Shalem, Cathryn Michon
Producer: W. Bruce Cameron
Screenwriter: Cathryn Michon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, W. Bruce Cameron
Distributor: Lionsgate Premiere
Production Co: The Halcyon Company
Rating: R (Sexual Material/References)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 17, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 17, 2017
Runtime: 1h 38m

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