Film Review – Cook Off!

2017 is starting to feel like a big garage sale, with Hollywood searching the archives for features to sell, getting rid of titles that never worked or were impossible to market. In the last month, there was “Amityville: The Awakening” and “Geostorm” (both shot in 2014), and now there’s “Cook Off!” However, the delay on the picture isn’t slight, with the mockumentary shot in 2007, putting a decade between completion and release. It’s an enormous amount of time, keeping expectations low for an effort that, for mysterious reasons, no studio wanted to offer audiences, even with its sellable premise and cast of comedians. “Cook Off!” isn’t a great film, but it’s not a complete disaster, happily lifting moves from Christopher Guest endeavors to create its own improv-heavy take on screwball characters engaged in heated competition.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com