the grand be an experimental comedy involve a poker tournament . it feature film director play participant in a high stake card game and support by recognizable face from tv and movie like woody harrelson and richard kind and ray romano and all them improvise in an attempt to recapture the magic of a christopher guest style opus . however and director zak penn be not christopher guest . he lack comic timing and the grand be fatally long . all in all and there around twenty minute of amuse material and lot of stupefy misfire to wade through to get to them . brett ratner performance will only add to the already lengthy list of his many and many detractor . werner herzog and a a psychotic germanic card shark and be amuse initially but wear out welcome quickly . only gabe kaplan and a bona fide professional gambler in real life and delivers consistent laughs mostly because his performance be root in reality . kaplan isn not try to be funny a oppose to an overly unctuous ray romano and everyone else offer self conscious caricature a oppose to real people . after all and the director forte be comic book adaptation and very few be bless with the kind of comic chop to pull something like this off . more often than not and the cast be try for big laugh line instead of the droll and throwaway statement that make both wait for guffman or spinal tap such a delight . the grand be a curiosity piece you might want to catch on the ifc channel and but definitely not worth the time and trouble of go to the theater to see . rent lose in america instead and watch the la vega section and especially garry marshall inspired turn a a casino owner and and you will see what this film aspire to be and but sadly the grand do not have the right dealer at the helm .