wld...I got my first guitar in 1954, after making do with a ukelele (which was definitely NOT cool, back then!) for a couple of years. I cut my American teeth on Border and Childe ballads, and was into the folk scene in LA, concerts at the AshGrove, singing in coffee houses...it was sort of a beatnik/folk overlap... I shrivel a little now, remembering how snobbish I was about groups like the Kingston Trio, Christy Minstrels and the like...which Mighty Wind satirizes. Looking back, I'm willing to give these sanitized folkies full credit for popularizing a genre that wouldn't have had nearly the wide appeal it did, and still does, without them.

As for the movie, I was disappointed. I think the idea is running out of blood...Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guzman were better, IMO, than Best in Show, which, again, was better than Mighty Wind...which was tired and overdone. I think your original assessment of it, as entertainment light, right on. Not embarrassing, mildly amusing, but no lasting impressions.

Just one old fogy/folkie's opinion...