Oz does a decent job of building up to Death’s big laughs.
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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: $8,440,710
Synopsis: A dignified send-off for a loved one erupts into uproarious chaos when romance, jealousy, in-laws, hallucinogens, dark secrets, life-long yearnings and a spot of bold blackmail all collide in the... [More]
Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Rupert Graves, Peter Dinklage, Alan Tudyk
Director: Frank Oz
Reviews for Death at a Funeral
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Dying is easy, comedy is hard, as the saying goes. A comedy about dying, especially a British farce, requires a specifically light, deft touch, which director Frank Oz achieves only about half the time in Death at a Funeral.
08/15/07
Working with a broad script by Dean Craig, director Frank Oz goes for American-style physicality, marching his players around a country house in which a toilet, alas, plays a big part.
08/15/07
Oz keeps all these balls in the air pretty deftly, and the cast tears into it. What gums things up is Craig's script.
08/14/07
Death at a Funeral never even approaches the best of Oz's oeuvre.
08/14/07
Death at a Funeral is flawed, but I'm willing to forgive a lot of flaws when a movie makes me laugh as much as this one.
08/14/07
Death at a Funeral is a dark British farce whose conventionality should not be held against it -- old-fashioned farces are murder to bring off.
08/13/07
An attempt at dark comedy that comes off more dark than comic...strained and effortful rather than blithely lighthearted.
08/12/07
This is a comedy that favors mania over wit and requires a high tolerance for sh*&$. It didn't evoke more than the occasional smile from this viewer.
08/10/07
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07/31/07
Top CriticSilly, screwball comedy - for those who enjoy droll British humor.
07/30/07
Starts off as a sedate British comedy, until the drugs kick in.
07/08/07
feels like a British attempt to pull off American humor -- broad versus dry. And while it doesn't always work, it makes for an interesting take on a familiar dish.
06/28/07
A rousing British farce filled with many antic moments and huge embarrassments.
06/27/07
A strained farce in which lots of one-dimensional Brits converge at the memorial service for their family's patriarch and proceed to act like buffoons.
06/23/07
In the end, the all-out pandemonium wins us over, but only just.
06/23/07
Puts the fun in funeral.
06/16/07
The tension in Death at a Funeral is between good manners and good comedy, something [director] Oz exploits throughout. Humor has a decided British accent, given that it's all about making genteel people cringe.
06/09/07
Top CriticThis topsy-turvy funeral produces a number of smiles, giggles, pleasant guffaws and several solid, sustained laughs. Not a bad batting average as comedies go.
06/09/07
Director Frank Oz nearly redeems himself after his disastrous "Stepford Wives" remake, with a British black comedy that goes over the top backwards.
06/08/07
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