...this is the type of film where the deceased spills out of his coffin, people are splattered with feces and if one person can accidentally take a hallucinogen, three are funnier.
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08/16/07
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
A well-crafted British farce -- albeit one with an American director, Frank Oz, working the controls - this throwback to the haughty high jinks of vintage Ealing comedies begins with an obvious, but effective, gag.
08/16/07
No, there aren't a lot of surprise giggles in it. But at this Funeral, the pleasure is in seeing those giggles coming.
08/16/07
Dinklage makes the most of a thankless role. The remaining actors are all OK, all immediately forgettable -- like the movie itself.
08/16/07
This broad farce blows the coffin lid off dignified send-offs, thanks to Dean Craig’s screwball script and the deft direction by Frank Oz.
08/16/07
Director Frank Oz has pulled off this kind of material before, most notably in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. But Death at a Funeral is too crude, and a bit too mean -- in particular, the blackmailing subplot featuring Peter Dinklage.
08/16/07
Although set in England with a predominantly British cast, Death at a Funeral is no stiff-upper-lipped comedy, but a lean, mean, and often crude, farce.
08/16/07
Death at a Funeral is a passable example of the British species of comedy. Directed by Frank Oz, it has the requisite amount of knockabout silliness.
08/16/07
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
Full of tired, sitcom-level gags.
08/16/07
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
This is a rollicking good show, reminscent of two classic Alan Dwan-Dennis O'Keefe screwball comedies from the '40s, Up in Mabel's Room and Getting Gertie's Garter.
08/16/07
Long 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
To call this rubbish would be an insult to rubbish.
08/16/07
Describing the plot and characters doesn’t begin to convey the out-of-control energy the film radiates. You have to be there.
08/16/07
Death at a Funeral shows us how funny farce can be -- even with the hokiest of premises -- in the hands of the British.
08/16/07
Top CriticThe talented ensemble cast brings a certain amount of class to what ends up being a genuinely laugh out loud funny comedy.
08/16/07
Like Altman's Gosford Park, Oz's film is an organism comprising intersecting oddballs...
08/16/07
Top Critic..spins and whirls and sputters and wheezes, but never at exactly the right moments.
08/16/07
Screenwriter Dean Craig and director Frank Oz are not at all shy about possibly offending midgets, the elderly or the dead. From a hilariously insipid rambling eulogy to a naked man on the roof, this funeral turns into a demented upper-class riot.
08/16/07
Latest News for Death at a Funeral
March 08, 2009:
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November 10, 2008:
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