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10/12/07
Death at a Funeral (2007)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:75
Rotten:44
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Death At A Funeral is a rousing British farce, with enough slapstick silliness to overcome its faults.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $8,440,710
Synopsis: A dignified send-off for a loved one erupts into uproarious chaos when romance, jealousy, in-laws, hallucinogens, dark secrets, life-long yearnings and a spot of bold blackmail all collide in the... [More]
Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Rupert Graves, Peter Dinklage, Alan Tudyk
Director: Frank Oz
Reviews for Death at a Funeral
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticA total misfire from director Frank Oz, whose endeavours to deliver black humour wobbles fatally. With its excellent British cast, it's not all bad, but the plot is hackneyed, the tone is wrong, and what aspires to be funny leaves us embarrassed
10/06/07
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08/18/07
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08/25/07
Top CriticThe stench of desperation wafts from the screen, as Craig and Oz randomly grasp at one hackneyed device after another ...
09/11/07
You'll wince and fidget and groan, and finally wonder at the nerve of the film-makers who thought they could get away with this.
11/02/07
For farce to work well, the plotting needs to be watertight, whereas here the sheer excess of characters fails entirely to cover up this film's flimsy underpinnings.
10/30/07
A farce - but not in the way its makers intended.
11/02/07
Dying is easy, comedy is hard, as the saying goes. A comedy about dying, especially a British farce, requires a specifically light, deft touch, which director Frank Oz achieves only about half the time in Death at a Funeral.
08/15/07
Even at a brisk 90 minutes, though, the show begins to feel like a memorial that has dragged on too long. Comedy plus bad timing equals disappointment.
08/17/07
As funny as losing a finger.
11/02/07
Feels strained.
10/28/07
In the end the knockabout humour totally destroys the glimmers of spiteful sophistication which would have made it much funnier.
11/02/07
When people try to make British comedies for American audiences, bad things invariably happen.
11/01/07
In a successful comedy of manners, the screenwriter and director are supposed to build the carefully lain plot to a frenzied fever pitch. Between Craig's lackluster script and Oz's tepid direction, its gait never gets beyond that of an elderly mallwalker.
08/16/07
An attempt at dark comedy that comes off more dark than comic...strained and effortful rather than blithely lighthearted.
08/12/07
I'm all for a good poop joke but just getting pooped on isn't itself funny. Especially when they spend the whole movie setting up the old guy and he needs help with the bathroom. Might as well send a telegraph.
08/17/07
Latest News for Death at a Funeral
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