Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I couldn't help but be drawn into the drama of the lives of three struggling mid-range actors as they experience the ups and downs of life in Hollywood. While I've read critiques that say their modicum of success makes the show unrealistic, I find it all the more fascinating to see how the lives of these actors change as they fluctuate in and out of Movieland's Pergatory.The story of the down and out actor who crawls home with his tail between his legs has already been told, as has the story of the actor who goes from rags to riches, but the in-between state in which these men women function is something altogether new to me, and I find it far more fascinating than the hyperbolic drivel that the other extremes present.The dialogue in this show is real, and frankly perfect. The story lines are beautifully subtle, the imagery is exactly what it needs to be, and the cameos provide the final ingredient that make this quite possibly the finest television drama I've ever seen.

Unscripted is a funny hybrid. I don't mean funny in that it makes you laugh. It's funny in that it thinks its audience is a bunch of morons. Part reality, part scripted, mostly improvised. The show takes a bunch of new actors, and a bunch of has been actors (someone please answer why is Frank Langella doing this?) The New actors --- mostly look like they should be in soft-porn movies in late night cine-max. And they should hope this show is canceled quickly because really, do they just want to be known as the actor who did that show where he got to play himself/herself... BADLY.The "has been" actors were never really that big to begin with, so I never really asked... oh, where have they been? more like... oh, why are they back?(EXCEPT for FRANK LANGELLA, again, begging the QUESTION... WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?") The show is bad because well, It's a show about the ups and downs on ACTING... and I'm sorry, I've seen "Fame" once, and that was good enough for me --- YES, there is struggling, yes there is suffering, yes there is heartbreak, but guess what... YES, I DON'T CARE. I DON'T CARE because ACTORS are not the REAL HEROES OF THIS WORLD. I love to WATCH ACTORS play real HEROES or even IMAGINARY ONES... but who wants to see an ACTOR play himself... it's just not interesting. Because at the end of the day, ACTORS are self involved little sh*ts, whose suffering is self-inflected. They chose this life, live with it, please, please don't show me how hard it is. There will be no sympathy gained by it. If anything, I just wish the actors and people who "MADE" it and then decided to put this type of crappola on TV, will just "un-make" it so that I wouldn't have to be exposed to this. YES, George Clooney taking my order at the Broadway Diner in Manhattan would be a treat indeed. (sorry, GEORGE, but what WERE YOU THINKING! Ocean's Twelve and Unscripted in one year --- ouch.) and can the executive at HBO who green lit this be FIRED. Thanks! The show is also so similar to the other HBO show Entourage... which raises the question, IS THERE some RE-PRESSED ACTOR doing the HBO programming as of late. Entourage is not a good show either, but that one at least has Jeremy Piven's slimy agent to keep you entertained. HBO has created some of the best television in recent memory. But thanks to UNSCRIPTED it has proved that it can bull a FOX and create some of the WORST also.

It's a lot like a documentary with some voice-overs by Frank Lagellea playing a 'wise acting coach' character who doesn't shut up about the noble art of acting throughout the whole episode. This gets annoying very quickly.From the promotion (perhaps the constant comparisons to Curb Your Enthusiasm from the cast and creators), I was under the impression this would be more of a comedy (albeit not a conventional one). However, it's really not a comedy at all (maybe 2 or 3 amusing moments through the 28 minute first episode) so while it is interesting I suppose, it also gets boring quickly. This is ground that has been covered many times before and done better, quite frankly.The show is billed as a look into the life of 'struggling' actors yet they don't deal with issues like getting an agent, making rent, working crap jobs in the service industry. These are things that make up the lives of struggling actors. Instead the 3 main characters are fairly known actors who all have steady paychecks (in the show and in real-life) and spend their time going to acting class and screwing around. The problem is it instantly fails to make them relatable to 95% of the viewers. The show seems to focus on actors struggling to get a grasp on the 'art' of acting, trying to be major celebrities. It has very little emphasis on their lives and how they're affected by their profession, which would have been a far better route to take.A good amount of the events in the show are non-fictional (spots the actors land on TV shows etc.) while some of them are made up (Krista Allen going to an audition with her son tagging along, and the kid somehow getting the part and she doesn't). Anyway, it tries so hard to be real (with no big payoff at the end like Curb Your Enthusiasm), I don't know why they didn't just make a real documentary rather than relying on these made up situations (which are actually less interesting than the parts that aren't made up).I understand that this show is trying to be 'real' and show what it's like to be an actor living in LA and isn't about the punchlines, but if that's the case, they need to come up with situations that are less dependent on the actor's actual experiences and are actually entertaining. The show is stuck in the middle between comedy (like Curb Your Enthusiasm or The Office) and full-on documentary. The problem is it's only average in both regards (there are scenes that are a downright bore).When you decide to make a faux documentary, you have the power to write some interesting stories and scenarios that are still plausible. In this case, you have actors who are playing themselves with many real-life situations and they're not exercising that power to write good stories and characters. If you have the real actors playing themselves, no script, and have no intention of writing anything that strays too far away from the truth, then why make it an acted show at all? There's just no logic there.Ultimately, unless you're a big fan of one of the 3 principles or are very interested in the acting life, it's really not worth watching. The acting is decent and will probably get them a little more exposure within the industry, but the execution just isn't up to par (blame it on Clooney).Rating: 6.2/10 On the upside, Krista Allen is very hot and almost makes it worth watching.

This show is so disappointing on so many levels, I'm not sure where to begin. What has happened to Soderbergh? It's as though he's just taking artistic shot after artistic shot without aiming in the hopes that he'll just hit something one of these days.Is it supposed to be "realistic"? (It's certainly not an improvisational comedy like the fantastic "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - where it stylistically appears to be real, but everyone is in on the joke.) If so, it is WAY off and as a semi-drama does a deep disservice to the true struggling actor - in LA or any other city. They all look like idiots. Don't Clooney and Soderbergh LIKE actors??? (If an acting teacher ever treated me like Frank Langella's character treats his students, I would slap him.) If the actors playing themselves have any real talent whatsoever, it certainly isn't apparent here. The direction is practically non-existent and the writing/improvised dialogue is awful.Skip this show and get DVDs of Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Larry Sanders Show -- or any other "quirky" semi-improvised show out there.And please, Steven, stay away from improv and return to great stories with intelligent direction -- like Sex Lies, the Limey and Out of Sight.