Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral is the funniest movie I’ve seen since Shaun of The Dead. It’s about a funeral that goes horribly wrong, wrong and wrong. Once it gets going, it never lets up. It’s all about letting the actors do their thing — reacting to events and situations that, even if these things happened in real life, you’d have to laugh. By the time I got to the end, I missed half the jokes because I was laughing too hard.
Oct. 21/08 post script: I tried watching it again tonight and couldn’t get into it. It takes about 20 minutes for things to kick into high gear, anyway, but it didn’t work for me even after waiting out the 20 minutes. Still, it’s worth taking a chance on. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it.
It’s best not to read any reviews or watch any trailers for this movie. They give away too much.
Tags: Alan Tudyk, Frank Oz, Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen