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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
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
Top CriticOz goes back to the well and taps into British humor, which has been so influential over the years for him, going back to The Muppet Show" in the 70s
08/17/08
There's no time to catch your breath; Death at a Funeral is that funny.
08/20/07
This is classic British ensemble comedy in a traditional style, with wonderfully understated performances by everyone %u2013 except the unfortunate guest mistakenly high on acid.
08/20/07
An old-fashioned English farce with enough gross-out humor to rival the dumb and dumberest of American movies, but also enough smarts to make your pleasure guilt-free.
08/16/07
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
Just when you think things can’t quite get any crazier, they do.
08/25/07
A refreshingly small, self-contained low-budget comedy in which Dean Craig's clever script is the primary attraction and scene-stealer Peter Dinklage is the biggest star.
08/17/07
Frank Oz does some of his best work ever helping the actors get the most out of barbed throwaways.
08/17/07
An apologetic-looking cast treads gingerly over the resulting wreckage, though only the guy in the coffin emerges with his credibility intact.
11/02/07
Death builds slowly and inexorably to a comic explosion that's just too good -- too insanely, impossibly mortifying -- to spoil here.
08/17/07
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04/23/09
Puts the fun in funeral.
06/16/07
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
A pleasantly unpleasant comedy that belatedly delivers. You won't die laughing but you shouldn't expire from boredom either.
11/02/07
A standard but serviceable vulgar farce.
08/20/07
Death at a Funeral finds its comedy in the peculiar human trait of being most tempted to laugh when we're absolutely not supposed to.
08/17/07
Top CriticLong delayed in its release because of the summer competition, Death arrives at last as an adult tonic in a season typically abandoned to the comic book cocktail.
08/16/07
It's sillier but funnier than Knocked Up, the summer's other notable comedy.
08/20/07
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