The Frank International Film Festival

This short comes with the DVD "Melvin Goes To Dinner" and is essential viewing for the Odenkirk completest. For those who found the accompanying feature not representative of the 'Mr. Show' sensibility, this short makes up for it as a "mockumentary" of the submission of the feature film to Frank's personal film festival which seems to occur in his parent's rec-room. The short is played very straight and subsequently hilarious when Blieden and White get into a fight over winning the heart of Frank's grandma, Beatrice. Other choice moments include winning every award and bunking up in Frank's bedroom. Odenkirk would be well served by making more of these as he and David Cross so often did during Mr. Show. Highly recommended.

This 15 minute skit can be found on the DVD of "Melvin goes to Dinner" and revolves around the makes of the aforementioned movie going to a film festival that's uncommonly exclusive. So exclusive in fact that only one man belongs to it, Frank. The cast and crew has to stay at Frank's place, whom lives with his mother by the way. Infighting and sexual tension arises. Mike White also has a humorous cameo. In some ways better than the actual movie that it's an off-shoot from and is closer to the humor that some Mr. Show fans were inexplicedly expecting from that film.

My Grade: B+