Starts off as a sedate British comedy, until the drugs kick in.
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07/08/07
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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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 17, 2007 Limited
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
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Reviews for Death at a Funeral
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 CriticLike Altman's Gosford Park, Oz's film is an organism comprising intersecting oddballs...
08/16/07
Top CriticSet among the perpetually polite and embarrassed British, the film is at least tolerable.
08/16/07
Full of tired, sitcom-level gags.
08/16/07
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
Top CriticFor 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
It's no classic, but it did prompt me to watch those great old Ealing Alec Guinness comedies again.
03/04/08
Top CriticThe film begins with a vaguely tired joke, but this just makes what follows that much more delicious.
10/12/07
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
A rousing British farce filled with many antic moments and huge embarrassments.
06/27/07
Death builds slowly and inexorably to a comic explosion that's just too good -- too insanely, impossibly mortifying -- to spoil here.
08/17/07
Top CriticJust when you think things can’t quite get any crazier, they do.
08/25/07
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
Oz 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
...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.
08/16/07
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
In the end, the all-out pandemonium wins us over, but only just.
06/23/07
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
Top CriticScatological grue, nudity, swearing, drug-taking and the chance to watch two grown men wrestle a midget…
11/01/07
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