This movie does a good job and achieves its purpose and ends up very intriguing and compelling, but man are these some weird people that are involved with the spelling bees. When Christopher Guest makes his mockumentaries, I now see how similar they are to real documentaries. The people in this film are so much like the deranged out-of-it people in Waiting for Guffman. It's a comical film and a compelling one at the same time.